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Scholarly Communication Guide: Useful tools

This guide provides information on the support services available at the library to help with all stages of your research, from planning your research, to measuring the impact of your research.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. We strongly recommend Creating a Google Scholar profile. 

Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Web of Science

The Web of Science Core Collection databases (part of ISI Web of Science from Thomson Reuters) incorporates the citation indexes known in print as Science Citiation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.  You can create a Citation Report for any author in this database that will include

  • a list of citing publications (both with and without self-citations),
  • the total number of citations,
  • the average number of citations per article, and
  • the researchers h-index. 

Only articles that are published in journals indexed by Web of Science will have their citations included in your Citation Report. Articles published in other journals or other scholarly publications such as books, book chapters, reports, and patents will not be included