Author-level metrics are essentially the accumulation of publication-level metrics. The H-Index, is the most common and can be can be found in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Beware that because databases differ in the content that they include, the h-index, may vary depending on which database you use.
The h-index is the number of papers (h) that have received h or more citations. An h-index of 10 means that an author has 10 papers that have each received at least 10 citations. A single highly cited paper will not increase the author's H-index. A high H-index indicates the author is both highly productive and highly cited. As with all metrics, the H-index has limited utility when comparing across disciplines. To address the H-index limitations, variations of the H-index or other metrics may be used.
View the public facing scholars page to discover information on UAB faculty including contact information, academic appointments, publications, and grants. Members of the UAB faculty or their delegates can update personal information by logging into the profiles system. Please review and update your profile annually to accurately track your research outputs.
An overview of profiles (private) and scholars (public) is shown below. Questions about profiles and scholars? please contact scholars@uab.edu
ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier. It is a persistent digital identifier that uniquely identifies an investigator and their related publications. A new federal policy requires researchers who apply for federal funding to have a digital persistent identifier, which will most likely be ORCID (National Security Presidential Memorandum 33).
It only takes a few minutes to register your own unique ORCID.
Input your ORCID when prompted in grant application, manuscript submission, peer review, etc. to ensure you get credit for your contributions.
Link your ORCID record to your UAB Scholars page to automate updates to your profile
Scopus Author Identifier is a unique number that matches authorship to groups of documents. Documents that cannot be confidently matched are grouped separately. In this case, you may see more than one entry for the same author. The author's ORCID may also be linked to their Scopus account. See Scopus Author Profiles FAQ for more information.
Web of Science ResearcherID is an alpha-numeric unique identifier that connects you to your publications across the Web of Science ecosystem and may be linked to your ORCID. As an author you can claim your record to manage your record. See Web of Science FAQ for more information.
Google Scholar Metrics ranks authors and journals by various h-indeces. Journal ranking can be viewed for the top 100 publications or by broad subject research areas and numerous subcategories. The metrics are calculated based on articles published in the past 5 years as indexed in Google Scholar.
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