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Research Impact Metrics

Provides an overview of Research Impact Metrics

Outputs in Top Journal Percentiles / Documents & % Documents in Q1 Journals

Sample Statement:

"All of my publications are in high quality journals: 35% of my publications are in the top 10% Journals (by SJR), with the remainder in the Q1 Journal Quartile (top 25%)."

Publications in top journal percentiles indicate that your research is published in highly regarded journals within your field. e.g. how many publications are in the top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25% of the most-cited journals indexed by Scopus. 

Journal quartiles are a related indicator: Q1 is the top 25% most-cited journals, and Q2 is journals with citation rates in the 26-50% percentile range.

Journal percentiles and quartiles can be calculated for different journal metrics, e.g. SNIP (Source-Normalised Impact per Paper) or SJR (SciMago Journal Rank).

High percentages in top journal percentiles or top journal quartiles can be persuasive evidence of your research’s impact and potential. Tools like InCites and SciVal can help with providing insights into how your research stands relative to peers. More details of journal ranking and quality measurement can be found in Journal Metrics.

Go to SciVal

  1. Go to Explore, click Entity list  Entity List , then select a researcher from Researchers and GroupsResearchers & Groups
  2. If the researcher is not listed, select Create/Import, and then Define a new Researcher and follow the prompts.
  3. Select the required year range and Apply.
  4. Select Publication Metrics from Bibliometrics list and scroll down for the Publications in Top Journal Percentiles.

Go to Incites

  1. Go to Analyse and then select Researchers.
  2. Type the researcher surname into the search box or unique ID (e.g. ORCID), then select from the list.
  3. Change the date range as required. For example custom range starting from your first year of publishing.
  4. Documents in Q1 Journals and % Documents in Q1 Journals will appear in the table.
  5. If they do not appear, go to Indicators and add the required ones.

 

A publication in a high-ranking journal can still receive no citations; even top journals have uncited articles. Therefore, this metric should be used in conjunction with metrics of individual publications like citation counts and article Field-Weighted Citation Impact.