A Brief Review on Article-, Author-, and Journal-Level Scientometric Indices

Himel Mondal; Shaikat Mondal

doi:10.4103/idoj.idoj_729_21

A Brief Review on Article-, Author-, and Journal-Level Scientometric Indices

Indian Dermatol Online J. 2022 Sep 5;13(5):578-584. doi: 10.4103/idoj.idoj_729_21. eCollection 2022 Sep-Oct.

Authors

Himel Mondal¹, Shaikat Mondal²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology, Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital, Koraput, Odisha, India.
² Department of Physiology, Raiganj Government Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India.

Abstract

Scientometric indices help rank the impact of an article, an author, and a journal in scientific literature. Additionally, it helps to rank institutions, universities, and countries in the scientific field. There are various author-, article-, and journal-level metrics provided by different service providers. It is important to know the underlying calculation method for an informed comparison between authors, articles, and journals. In this article, we described briefly some of the common author-level metrics (h-index, i10-index, and g-index), article-level metrics (Altmetric, Dimensions, and PlumX), and journal-level metrics (Impact Factor®, CiteScore, SCImago journal ranking, and h5-index).

Keywords: Altmetric; CiteScore; Dimensions; PlumX; SCImago; g-index; h-index; h5-index; i10-index; impact factor.

Publication types

Review