The following indicators are used with publications and other content types in Dimensions: Publication citations The publication citations value is the n...
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The Field Citation Ratio (FCR) is a citation-based measure of scientific influence of one or more articles. It is calculated by dividing the number of citat...
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The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) is a citation-based measure of scientific influence of a publication. It is calculated by the National Institutes of Healt...
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The Altmetric Attention Score is a value that indicates the amount of attention received by an article across the internet. Sources that are being tracked i...
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The Metrics API is an openly available API which returns a limited set of article-level metrics (see below) based on an input set of identifiers. The Metri...
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Not all publications in Dimensions will have all three metric scores associated with them. The reasons for this vary with each metric: Citation count If a...
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Citation differences will always be seen between any two platforms, as these depend on the content of the databases in question, as well as the comparative ...
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Altmetric is a part of the Digital Science group. Altmetric allows users to track and measure activity around academic research, pulling patterns and compe...
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Dimensions does not include journal impact factors, but instead uses article-level metrics. The journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a me...
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'Publication citations' refers to the number of times that a publication has been cited by other publications in the Dimensions database. (Publicati...
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