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Bibliometrics explained: impact factor, h-index and their limits
How the main research metrics are calculated, what they can and cannot tell you, how to map a field with citation data, and why research evaluation is moving beyond them.
- Journal Impact Factor vs CiteScore vs SJR: which journal metric to use
How the three main journal metrics are calculated, how they differ in data source, citation window and weighting, and how to use them sensibly.
- How to map a research field with OpenAlex and VOSviewer
A free, step-by-step workflow for building a map of any research field: define the query, export from OpenAlex, build networks in VOSviewer and interpret the clusters.