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Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
In this session we will examine article level metrics. We will discuss how citation counting can help identify influential papers in particular fields and how altmetrics provide a different perspective on research output. Using tools such as Web of Science, Google Scholar and Scopus you will learn how to locate different article metrics. The session will also allow you to appreciate the limitations of different metrics and the importance of their cautious interpretation.
By the end of the session, you will be familiar with: using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar to track and count citations to papers and individual researchers; measuring impact using altmetrics; understanding how to contextualise metrics against other, similar papers in a field; and the limitations of different metrics.
Intended audience: Taught student; Researcher & research student
Date:
10 February 2026, 15:00
Venue:
Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details:
Seminar Room
Speakers:
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0099
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals and Bodleian reader card holders.
Editors:
Helen Bond,
Melanie Smith
