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Learn about altmetrics and how it measures the impact of your scholarly work.

"Provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics."

A software program that uses Google Scholar to retrieve and analyze academic citations to present statistics on citations and author metrics.

"Users type in a PubMed query ... iCite then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio (a field-normalized metric that shows the scientific influence of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper)."

Free tool that use altmetrics and traditional citation metrics to discover the impact of your research.
Run a report on a particular journal article or dataset using its DOI or PubMed ID, or import your entire bibliography of articles/datasets using your ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) or a BibTeX file exported from Google Scholar.

To obtain a unique Researcher ID. Mission: "ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. We provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. We provide this service to help people find information and to simplify reporting and analysis."

Create a free personal dashboard to track your research impact.

A preprint repository that provides paper statistics on rank, downloads and abstract views for each document.

Search for a particular work and then click on cited by.

Search for a publication or author, click on Paper Citations.

Use the Citations tab to search for an author and find a list of publications with the number of citations.

Gives an author's list of articles, affiliation, fields of study, journals published in, etc.

Search for a particular work. Right hand column will give citing articles, blog mentions, social media mentions.

Create a free personal dashboard to track your research impact.

The following EBSCO Databases include citation tracking: Academic Search Complete, Communications and Mass Media Complete, GreenFile, Political Science Complete, PsycINFO, and PsycARTICLES. To locate the database, click on Choose Databases link, then Click on Cited References at the top of the page in the blue header. Search for a particular author or work. Select works then click Find Citing Articles.