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Measuring Research Impact and Quality

Sciences and the social sciences

Essential Science Indicators
Categorizes journals from the Web of Science into broad categories, and identifies the most highly and rapidly cited journal publications in each category. Counts of highly cited publications attributed to researchers, institutions and countries indicate volume and influence of their research activity.
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Date Coverage: Last 10 years
Maximum Users: Unlimited
Tutorials: https://clarivate.libguides.com/esi
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics
Provides a dataset consisting of profiles of institutions, journals, books, proceedings, in the form of graphs and tables, containing data and metrics compiled from three sources: a reputation survey conducted by TR; demographic and financial information from the institutions; journal and publication and citation information from the Web of Science.
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Maximum Users: Unlimited
Tutorials: https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/incites/
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Business & economics

Social Science Research Network

Top Authors, Top Papers, etc., based on downloads.
Free registration required to see rankings beyond the top ten.

Biomedical sciences

iCites (NIH)
Computes the Relative Citation Ratio (a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper). Papers must have a Pubmed ID.