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Research metrics

A guide to identifying and analysing research-related metrics, with support material and further guidance.for related tools

Databases and tools

This section summarises guidance for some specific tools.

Altmetric - visibility of papers in the media and the wider world
InCites - advanced citation data and metrics
Overton - citations in policy documents
Other large databases - Dimensions, Lens, OpenAlex
Citation network tools - Connected Papers, Research Rabbit
AI search tools - Scite, Keenious

We also have separate guides for the main bibliographic databases: