Enlighten  is the University’s system for managing your research publications. It holds both the details of your publications and the full text (where publishers permit a suitable copy to be uploaded). Enlighten is used for a number of purposes:

• Providing publications details for the University’s REF 2014 return;
• Populating staff web pages with details of your publications;
• Providing data for the PD&R process:
• Offering a public interface to the University’s research outputs
• Acting as the University’s open access repository

You should add details of your research publications to Enlighten regularly. The way in which you do this will vary according to your College – in some areas staff upload their own publications to Enlighten; in others this is done by administrative staff on behalf of authors. For more information about what you need to do see the Open Access site.

Publications held in Enlighten are freely available online. The University’s Publications Policy  asks staff to deposit the full text of journal articles and conference proceedings where publisher copyright policies permit. Making your publications freely available will increase their visibility and impact, and you can view your own download statistics via Enlighten.

For more information about Enlighten please see http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/openaccess or contact the Enlighten Team at deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk.

Tools for Citation Analysis

The University provides access to a number of resources which allow you work with citation data: for example to look up citation counts, calculate metrics such as the H-Index and to produce comprehensive citation reports.

Sources of Citation Data

The Web of Science (WoS)  is one of the abstracting and indexing databases hosted within the Web ok Knowledge service. WoS includes all of the ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index), as well as Web of Science Proceedings. Records in WoS provide citation counts. There is also a function within WoS, called Create Citation Report, which allows the user to analyse sets of records (e.g. for a particular author), providing data about total citation counts, average citation counts and the H-Index for that set of records.

Scopus is an abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with bibliometric tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus contains over 18,500 journal titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences as well as the arts and humanities. Records in Scopus provide citation counts, however Scopus does not have complete citation information for articles published before 1996. There is a function within Scopus called View Citation Overview which allows users to analyse sets of records. Scopus is the source of citation data for the Research Excellence Framework.

Google Scholar  contains material across many disciplines and sources including journal articles and books. Google Scholar provides access to citing references - after conducting a search, click on the Cited By link to see citing articles.

• Citation counts within Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar may be different for the same journal article etc. because of differences in the scope and size of each dataset.
• The H-index was developed in 2005 by Professor Hirsch (a physicist at the University of California) and it is a simple metric with which to quantify the scientific output of an individual researcher. For example if you have published 40 papers that have received at least 40 citations each then your H-index is 40.

Research Information

InCites is a web-based research evaluation tool which you can use to create customised reports about the University’s research performance at a global, institutional and individual level. InCites uses a dataset created for the University of Glasgow (based on address field) derived from the Web of Science.  Using citation data normalised for publication date, publication type and subject field, it is possible to create reports which benchmark our research impact with that of comparable institutions, or to assess the performance of research against the expected norm for a journal or within a subject field.

If you would like more information about InCites, or help with using this tool, please email library-incites@glasgow.ac.uk

There is a helpful fact sheet  

Impact Factors

Journal Citation Reports is available from the Web of Knowledge Service and it provides access to Journal Impact Factors. As an author or researcher you may be interested in learning about the “quality” or “impact” of a journal before publishing or using an article in it. Some researchers use the impact factor figures, along with other considerations, to help decide:

• Which journal should I publish in to have most impact?
• What is the “top journal” in my field?

The journal “Impact Factor” shows the average number of times articles from a journal, published during the past two years, have been cited in the current JCR year. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An impact factor of 1.0 means that articles published one or two years ago have been cited, on average, once.

• Not all journals have an impact factor- it is available only for those titles that are selected for inclusion in the JCR database
• If you find an impact factor on a publisher website, always consult the JCR database to make sure you have the most recent impact factor from the current edition

If you would like further information or help with any of these resources please contact Susan Ashworth.

The University provides guidance on creating, organising, accessing and looking after your research data. See Data management support for researchers for more information.

The University supports the bibliographic software products Endnote and Reference Manager. There is extensive information about both products in the Information Skills section of the Library website