Following our blog articles on bibliometrics and their major applications, our specialist librarians Isabelle Vuillemin-Raval and Linda Leger have prepared a full guide on Impact Metrics.
This will help you understand:
- Journal and article impact factors
- Author impact factors such as G, H and i10 indexes
- The shift towards Altmetrics
- Why such calculations can be a bad idea
Original picture: Measuring tape, by Newsong (CC0 public domain)
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