Dear teachers and fellows, what do you think about various indicators and which indicator is more reliable to evaluate the impact of scientific research? The same scholar has a different Score/index from different sources.
I want all to be clear on this
1. Scopus ranks journals, not individuals
2. Google tracks citations of academic work and considered better measure
3. RG allows you to showcase work, and also tracks citations, but tends to have less reach (i.e less citations). Easy to use and excellent for networking and we'll regarded.
4. Publons less well know and used for citations/profile. You may ask yourself, do I really need loads of web research identities.
The answer NO. It's like, doing web pages, talking about research, rather than DOING RESEARCH.
RG and GOOGLE sufficient. You have to write, otherwise nothing to put on web.😊❤️
I think Scopus indexed is the high reliable. Many journals indexed in Google Scholar is lacking rigorous peer reviewing.
ResearchGate score is not at all reliable and there is no transparency regarding how it is calculated.
All of them are reputable, creating accounts in such trusted academic platforms will increase your visibility.
Wish you an ultimate success in your academic life...
All are good, but some lacking problem still exist in all these reasearch indices. According to my experience ORCID is the most Relible index for researcherers.
Google citations
RG citations
Scopus ranks journals, i.e q1, q2
Need to have systems easy to manage. We need papers to be able to create a profile😊
I want all to be clear on this
1. Scopus ranks journals, not individuals
2. Google tracks citations of academic work and considered better measure
3. RG allows you to showcase work, and also tracks citations, but tends to have less reach (i.e less citations). Easy to use and excellent for networking and we'll regarded.
4. Publons less well know and used for citations/profile. You may ask yourself, do I really need loads of web research identities.
The answer NO. It's like, doing web pages, talking about research, rather than DOING RESEARCH.
RG and GOOGLE sufficient. You have to write, otherwise nothing to put on web.😊❤️
This could be a piece of additional information to this question stated by Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
The measurement of the Indicators for Scientific Research is
Personal Citation Index called H-index
Altmetrics - Use the online activity
Moreover, Citation based Indicators are helpful to measure the impact,
buzz, word of mouth for scientific information
1. Citation Impact
2. Percent of Document cited
3.Percent of Document in the top 1 %
4.Percent of Document in the top 10 %
5. Hot and Highly cited papers
6. Journal Impact Factor (5 Years)
7. Eigen Factor
8.Article Influence
9. Cite Score Metrics
10. SCImago Journal Rank
11. Source Normalized Impact per Paper
12. H-index of Authors and Institutions
13. Field Weighted Citation Impact to evaluate the research performance of Authors and Institutions
Scopus - Both Traditional and New Indicators
1.Author
2.Article
3.Journal
are called as Plum XMetrics
The other indicators Beverly Dawn madam has explained clearly that I don't want to repeat.
Regards
M.Senapathy
Yes M
Good points about journal impacts. We are all advised to submit to top journals. But journals go up and down. My first article published 1997 and is now 4*. While there are various lists, mainly ABS in UK, Deans List in Australia, many universities have preferences also.
Not convinced on ranking institutions research as comparing apples and oranges.
Again h factor...cannot compare physics and philosophy
We do get transfixed on these measures and seen crazy CVs.....getting published is a first hurdle for many....we want to avoid becoming panopticans....and if you don't know what that refers to, you don't know your research philosophy, who was as monumental as Kuhn. This is exactly the reason why there needs to be resistance towards a one size fits all assessment of research....😊
Scopus is generally acceptable because of the rigorous peer review requirements to get published in a scopus indexed journal. Google Scholar is also useful for tracking citations of individual articles.
Scopus, SCI are the indexes...
RG is a research forum..
Scholar is a common database / index...
Dear Aqib Niazi,
You've suggested the right order. You can still add Academia....
Regards
Dariusz Prokopowicz
All are equally important.
While publishing our papers sci and scopus indexed journals is prefered.
Publons will increase the visibility of published articles and our peer review records and generates ranking.
I agree@Ali Raza
Research gate increases the visibility of our published article and we can have the feedback of the paper who had read.
Google scholar is an overview of the scholars work but we can not know who read our's paper.
Scopus and Publons are more authentic. I think the Scopus and Publons will give you similar indices. Scopus is managed by Elsevier while Publon is managed by Web of Science and Claritive Analytics and ResearcherID.
However, google scholar is not a very authentic source to judge anyone's contributions to the field.
Scopus and Publons are more authentic but google scholar is fine as well.
for me all four platforms give me different indices for various reasons.
1. Scopus gives lowest index to me because it is restricted only for Scopus cited publication and citation.
2. Publons gives as same number as Scopus, however, Publons has a peer-reviewing activity record. Now, this is new, and different compared with other platforms.
3. Google Scholar gives the highest index to me, because it considered all types of publication, as well as all types of citation. However, from time to time we have to exclude the publication that is not belong to us that often 'mis-addresses'.
For citation, sometimes the same cases happened but it will be self-corrected.
Now, this is a little problematic if you have too many publications to handle.
4. The best is Research Gate, simply because it is automated, validated, and includes non-scopus publication and citation as well. It also has RG score that takes into account other contributions.
However, it is better if the Research Gate has the peer-reviewing activity record as well, like Publons.
All of them are important. However, Scopus indexed journal is my preference.
I think Scopus is more acknowledged by many academic institutions. However, Google scholar provides more comprehensive evaluation for the impact of scientific research.
In my point of view the Scopus H-index and WOS H-Index are most essential indicators for the academic researchers.
Which h-index?—A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar
Scientometrics 74(2):257-271
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-0216-y
Am in line with the excellent comment of Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
She reduced the complex technicality of your query into a simple practice and valuable advice.
In my opinion, Google scholar captures citations from all sources, while SCOPUS, Publons, and RG do not capture citations from all sources. Therefore, Google scholar reflects index more
I agree with Beverly Dawn Metcalfe. Google scholar is often considered a better way to track the true number of citations of a scholar
Dear Dr. Aqib Mashood Khan ,
Although arguable, WoS database (owned by Clarivate) is considered as the most reputable (for evaluation, promotion assessments etc.). So, the H-index and number of citations obtained from the most reputable database/indexing service is the most reliable:
1. Publon (since it is a property of Clarivate and uses SCIE data)
2. Scopus (more and more popular but still somewhat less established one)
3. Google Scholar (personally I find this one the most informative, but the ‘outside’ world doesn’t like the lack of ‘filtering out’ less scientific valuable citations)
4. RG (though informative it has no established reputation in the world of evaluation of academic performance)
Best regards.
https://www.semanticscholar.org a Free, AI-powered Tool for Navigating the Scientific Literature launched in 2015 as a groundbreaking project at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) which is founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder.
Google Scholar has a lack of filtering out less scientific valuable citations. In addition, any similarity between authors name can be added simply to the researcher profile which provide inaccurate citation indicators for the researchers.
Scopus ranks journals, and not researchers, however, the author profiles are managed there. RG is a good research networking platform for researchers. They can display their research work and interact with other researchers.
Each one is significant for researchers but RG and Citation is my favorite.
@Muhammad Salman Shabbir, I think that keeping a presence in Google scholar and RG should be enough. Too many online accounts may well turn out to be counter-productive. Energy should be invested in actively engaging in research. Thanks
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