There are increasing numbers of research analytic products that provide bibliometric data. The following tools are available for Imperial staff and students:
Available bibliometrics tools
Altmetric provides data about online attention to research publications. It identifies mentions of research outputs on social media, blog sites, policy documents, news outlets, or Wikipedia (check out ‘Introduction to Altmetric at Imperial’).
Dimensions is an article –level metadata, abstract, citations, and research grants database. It provides basic metrics about research publications and helps you to see grants associated with research publications.
Overton is a database for policy documents and allows tracking mentions of research outputs in policy documents.
The Scholarly Communications and Management Team offers different dashboards showing publications and metrics such as Research Outcomes and Spiral Reports Usage Statistics dashboards. For more information, contact bibliometrics@imperial.ac.uk.
SciVal is a research analytics product which uses data from the Scopus database. It provides author, article, or journal-level metrics with different visualisations. It allows benchmarking publications and other metrics against different universities, institutions or a set of other publications. SciVal also helps to identify national or international collaborations of the institution.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature. It gives basic citation information for each publication.
Web of Science is another article metadata and citation database.
There are other tools available. Whenever you use tools for bibliometrics analysis, we would recommend careful usage, and avoid those that do not have responsible use guidelines or principles on their web pages.
Note that each platform has its own strengths and weaknesses. For more information or training requests, get in touch with bibliometrics@imperial.ac.uk.