Research Support Service

The Central Library, Tezpur University provides Research Support Service (RSS) for strengthening the research activities by attending user queries related to various research guide tools like; Use of Electronic Resources, Grammar and Spelling Check (Grammarly), Reference Style Guide (Mendeley, Zotero etc.), Author Identification/ORCID, Citation Analysis (Scopus, WoS etc.) and Check Plagiarism (Urkund & Turnitn), etc. Find more please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Referene management tools

Reference management tools (also known as bibliographic or citation management tools) help you organize your research sources and generate bibliographies in multiple citation formats.
The following are some reference management tools:

Mendeley: Mendeley is a desktop and web program produced by Elsevier for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]: is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
ZoteroBib: ZoteroBib is a free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.
EndNote: is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
RefWorks: is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
Crossref: makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. A not-for-profit organization that exists to make scholarly communications better.
NoodleTools: It is an integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.
KnightCite: KnightCite is a free site that automatically produce MLA, APA, or Chicago style citations for 28 types of sources. It is provided by Hekman Library at Calvin College.
Qiqqa: Qiqqa is award-winning free research management software, designed for commercial and academic researchers.

Bibliographic databases

Bibliographic databases, or indexing and abstracting databases, contain details of articles published in journals. It also sometimes provide an abstract (summary) or full text of the item. Citation Indexes are a key research tool, providing access to multidisciplinary literature from high impact research journals.
Some of the useful bibliographic databases:

Choosing a citation style

For most papers, you will need to format your bibliography according to the citation style specified by your instructor or publisher. Some of the commonly used citation styles include:

Research Impact & Metrics

Article-level metrics: Article-level metrics quantify the reach and impact of published research.

Citation count: How many times has your article been cited?
In what journals are they being cited?
Is the rate of citation steady over several years?
Field-weighted citation impact (FWCI): Field-weighted citation impact divides the number of citations received by a publication by the average number of citations received by publications in the same field, of the same type, and published in the same year. The world average is indexed to a value of 1.00. Values above 1.00 indicate above-average citation impact, and values below 1.00 likewise indicate below-average citation impact.

Author-level metrics: Author-level metrics address an author™s productivity and diversity of reach.

Scholarly output: How many publications have you written?
Journal count: In how many distinct journals or journal categories have you published?
What is your H-index?
How many times have you, as an author, been cited?

Journal or publisher metrics: Journal or publisher metrics address weights or prestige that particular publications are seen to carry. Some measures include:

Journal Impact Factor: Journal Citation Reports to find the JIF used to rank journals. It is important to note that only journals indexed in Web of Science are measured -- Web of Science journals are limited by discipline and type of journal.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank: SCImago Journal & Country Rank includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database.
CiteScore: CiteScore is Scopus's method of measuring the citation impact of journals. It calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years.
Eigenfactor and Article Influence: Eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals and articles much as Google™ PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals.
Google Scholar Metrics: Google Metrics assigns an h5-index to journals. The h5-index is based on how many articles that journal has published and how many times articles have been cited.
Impact per publication (IPP): IPP gives you a sense of the average number of citations that a publication published in the journal will likely receive. It measures the ratio of citations per article published in a journal. Unlike the standard impact factor, the IPP metric uses a three year citation window, widely considered to be the optimal time period to accurately measure citations in most subject fields.

Altmetrics:

ALTMETRICS (Alternative Metrics) allow us to measure and monitor the reach and impact of scholarship and research through online interactions (primarily social media). Altmetrics are a complement to traditional metrics. For more info, please visit at Altmetric.com
Altmetric is a web-based service that allows anyone to track, search, and measure the conversations about their research happening online on an article-by-article basis. Examples of some publishers that have incorporated altmetrics:

PubMed (Medline and more)
arXiv.org
Academia.edu
Research Gate
Mendeley

Most Common Metrices
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Most Common Metrices

h-index

An h-index of 10 means that 10 of your articles have been cited at least 10 times. You may have 100 papers, and 4 of them have been cited 100 times, but only 10 of them have been cited at least 10 times. The h-index is also known as the Hirsch index and is a combined measure of both productivity and impact.
One caveat about the h-index is that it correlates with the length of a researcher's career (i.e., researchers who have been publishing for longer tend to have higher h-indices). It can also be inflated by self-citation. In addition, the h-index ignores the order of authorship, which is very important in some disciplines. Additionally, because different disciplines have different publishing practices, the h-index should not be used to compare researchers across different disciplines. Average impact scores vary widely from discipline to discipline.
h-index Prediction Tool: Predict what your h-index will be in the future.

h5-index

h-index based upon data from the last 5 years

i-10 index

i-10 index is the number of articles by an author that have at least ten citations.
i-10 index was created by Google Scholar.

Eigenfactor

The Eigenfactor score is a measure of the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) year.

More Definitions

g-index

weights highly-cited papers more heavily. An index of g means that your g most highly-cited articles together have at least g-squared citations. Your g-index will always be equal to or greater than your h-index.

hi-index

(aka individual h-index) takes number of co-authors into account. Your hi-index is equal to your h-index divided by the average number of authors on the articles in your h core.

hc-index

(aka contemporary h-index) weights newer articles more heavily than older articles, so that articles lose their value over time. This allows a clearer picture of more recent levels of productivity and impact.

m-index

takes differences in career length into account, by dividing your h-index by the number of years that you have been publishing.

e-index

the (square root) of the surplus of citations in the h-set beyond h2, i.e., beyond the theoretical minimum required to obtain a h-index of 'h'. The aim of the e-index is to differentiate between scientists with similar h-indices but different citation patterns.

Get a Researcher ID

Researcher Identifiers are designed to distinguish your research activities and outputs from those with similar names. Some of are as follows:

ORCID
Scopus Author ID
ResearcherID (Web of Science)
Publons (Web of Science)

Create an Online Profile

Benefits of an online profile:

Collect your work in one place
Track citations of your work automatically
Allow users to "Follow" you and receive notifications of your new publications

Below are some of the options available online:

GoogleScholar
ImpactStory
LinkedIn
ResearchGate
Academia.edu

Creating a Google Scholar Profile has its own benefits because Google Scholar provides citation information from many disciplines and many types of publications: journal articles, conference papers, books, chapters, and gray literature.

Benefits of a Google Scholar Profile:

Keep track of citations to your publications
When users search your name, a link to your profile will appear at the top of the results -- and your name in any reference will be linked
Graph citations over time and view citation metrics that are automatically calculated: h-index and alternatives
It's easy to set up a profile and add groups of publications at one time
You will receive emails from Google Scholar for you to approve new citations that com in - or you can choose to let Google Scholar update automatically

Promote Your Research & Be Social

It is always be helpful to participate and collaborate in promoting and discussing your work through social networking, blogging, personal networks, and more.