Research Guides: Research Impact Metrics: Sources of Citation Data

Bibliographic Databases

Google Scholar

Use the search box below to search Google Scholar and automatically see Get VText links which will connect you to full-text content through the VT Libraries' subscriptions. (Otherwise follow these directions to manually make those links appear.)

Scopus

Scopus indexes citations of journal articles, conference papers, and books in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches. You can compare authors, institutions, and journals using various metrics. 1800s-present

Dimensions Plus

Dimensions Plus indexes more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings. Dimensions Plus is an extensive and fully interlinked database with publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets and policy documents. 1600s to present.

Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics

The three Web of Science databases index citations from journal articles and conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches, analyze trends and patterns, and create visual representations of citation relationships. 1900-present

Sources of Citation Data

Google Scholar Citations (Profiles)
Google Scholar Citations provide 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. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.

Dimensions
The free Dimensions app allows you to search across 89 million publications and explore their associated citations, altmetrics, grants, patents, and clinical trials.

Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics
The three Web of Science databases index citations from journal articles and conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches, analyze trends and patterns, and create visual representations of citation relationships. 1900-present
InCites from Web of Science
InCites is a customized, citation-based research analytics tool that enables you to evaluate institutional productivity and benchmark your output. Requires registration using your VT email address.

Scopus Author Profiles
You can use this free author lookup to search for any author; or, use the Author Feedback Wizard to verify your Scopus Author Profile. Register for your unique ORCID and use Scopus to import your records.