How do I find out how many citations an author has?

Using your Google Scholar Citations account, you can see the citation counts for your publications and have GS calculate your h-index. (You can also search Google Scholar by author name and the title of an article to retrieve citation information for a specific article.)

How is RCR score calculated?

How is the RCR calculated? The RCR is calculated by dividing the article citation rate, which is the average number of citations an article receives each year, by the expected citation rate, which represents the citation rate of NIH-funded publications in the same year and disciplinary field.

What is a respectable number of citations?

For all researchers, 5-10 citations of their papers will be great! Publishing in good journals help the citations of our articles.

How is h-index of publication calculated?

The h-index is calculated by counting the number of publications for which an author has been cited by other authors at least that same number of times. For instance, an h-index of 17 means that the scientist has published at least 17 papers that have each been cited at least 17 times.

What is a good h-index for a professor?

H-index scores between 3 and 5 seem common for new assistant professors, scores between 8 and 12 fairly standard for promotion to the position of tenured associate professor, and scores between 15 and 20 about right for becoming a full professor.

What is a good RCR score?

The RCR is presented as a decimal number. A value of “1” indicates that it’s performing as expected. When the value is greater than 1 the ratio is a better ratio, which means the article has received more citations than its peers for that year and subject area.

What is RCR citation?

The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) is a new metric, recently endorsed by the National Institutes of Health. It is based on weighting the number of citations a paper receives to a comparison group within the same field. The iCite tool may be used to generate RCR metrics for articles with PubMed IDs.

How many citations is impressive?

What is a good number of citations? With 10 or more citations, your work is now in the top 24% of the most cited work worldwide; this increased to the top 1.8% as you reach 100 or more citations. Main take home message: the average citation per manuscript is clearly below 10!

What is considered highly cited?

Highly cited papers are defined as those that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year. The data derive from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), a component of InCites.

How do I manually calculate my h-index?

To manually calculate your h-index, organize articles in descending order, based on the number of times they have been cited. In the below example, an author has 8 papers that have been cited 33, 30, 20, 15, 7, 6, 5 and 4 times. This tells us that the author’s h-index is 6.

What is h-index and how it is calculated?

What is the h-index? The h-index is a measure of the number of publications published (productivity), as well as how often they are cited. h-index = the number of publications with a citation number greater than or equal to h. For example, 15 publications cited 15 times or more, is a h-index of 15.