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Altmetrics: Alternative Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Research

Citation counts and altmetric data for books

  • Database of scholarly publications.
  • Currently includes over one million monographs and edited books.
  • Provides citation counts and altmetric data.
  • Requires free registration.
  • Use the Cited References Search in Web of Science to see how many times a book has been cited.  Enter the author of the book and/or the book title.

Sources for additional book metrics

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