literature review tips in education

journal-level metrics:

• journal impact factor (jif) - calculates the average frequency that an article in a particular journal has been cited in the 2 years since its publication.  based on web of science content.
• eigenfactor - provides eigenfactor scores for journals based on jifs and article influence scores; this system sums all scores to 100 and provides an individual journal score that measures its influence 
• snip (source normalized impact per paper) - one of several indicators provided by leiden university;  snip takes into account differences in citation practice between disciplines and also provides a stability index to show how the indicator varies over time for a specific title.  based on data from scopus.
• scimago journal rank  (sjr) -also based on scopus, this ranking system weights citations based on the prestige of the citing journal - read more here.

altmetrics:  scholars are used to traditional metrics like citation counts and journal impact factors - alternative metrics (altmetrics) are a suite of tools and measures that seek to define the influence and impact of a scholarly work in other ways which often includes social media.

• plum analytics (ebsco):