E. H. Butler Library Subscribes to the Web of Science Citation Index Core Collection. This subscription allows researchers to track their research citations and create a researcher account. Additionally, Web of Science provides researchers with their H-Index, a potential measurement of a researcher's scholarly impact.
Web of Science is also a database that will list citations of specific articles in their index. Look foe researchers that are citing your scholarship and find your H-Index number. For accuracy purposes, it is recommended to claim your researcher account.
the impact of a particular scientist rather than a journal. "It is defined as the highest number of publications of a scientist that received h or more citations each while the other publications have not more than h citations each." For example, a scholar with an h-index of 5 had published 5 papers, each of which has been cited by others at least 5 times.
Google Scholar has author profiles that can be created and connected to publications indexed in Google Scholar. You will need a Gmail account to create your profile:
*Educational or Institutional email address will need to be verified
To search for a researcher in Google Scholar, simply type in the name of a researcher.
If the name is not appearing, search for an article that is published by the research and click on the authors name.
Below is an example of the H-Index/researcher profile in Google Scholar for the research Gordon Pennycook