Eigenfactor? H-index? SCImago? If you think these terms may come from a Klingon dictionary, then it's time to familiarize yourself with citation analysis. Basically, these are all measures for assessing the impact of a journal or scholar based on the number of times a work or author has been cited.

Understanding how to conduct citation searching and how research impact is measured can help you throughout your academic career. Whether you want to see who has cited your work or need to identify high impact journals for a research assignment, the library's Citation Searching and Journal Impact guide will lead you through the process.

This new guide will provide you with step by step instructions and explanations of the citation searching process. In addition to a comparison of the various tools you can use to conduct citation searching, the guide contains video tutorials as well as a bibliography of works that debate the value of counting citations.

A sample citation report for an author