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Research metrics

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

Finding and accessing citation data

You can access basic citation counts for individual papers through Scopus or Web of Science. However, this is not usually easy to analyse on a larger scale, and is not normalised.
As a result, the main source we recommend for citation metrics is InCites.

Simple citation counts

The citation counts are on the right hand column of the search results in Scopus:

Scopus search results with citations highlighted

And similarly on the right hand column in Web of Science: though note that this shows both "citations" (papers which cite this paper) and "references" (papers cited by this paper).

Web of Science search results with citations highlighted

Complex citation metrics

For more complex normalised metrics, or for data for groups of papers, we recommend using InCites - see that page for further guidance on accessing InCites.

To get citation counts and the key normalised metrics for an individual paper, click the number under "Web of Science Papers" in the results table.

InCites results screenshot

The data is provided for each paper in the popup box. There is also the option to "download table" for a file with standard metrics for each paper.

Publications data on Incites