Raising Your Research Profile and Measuring Your Impact: Impact Factors

• OA Repositories 
• Social Media Tools 
• Impact Factors 
• Altmetrics

These are sources to help you track how many times your scholarship has been cited. 

• Science, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes (a.k.a. Web of Science)
  • SCU subscribes to online resource back to 1993/4. Before that, it's available in print.
  • Some local libraries that are open to SCU faculty allow onsite use of their online subscriptions, which go back further (SJSU from 1975- , Stanford & Berkeley, 1900 - ).
• Google Scholar

These are sources that help you determine the impact factor of a journal, such as, how many times the journal is cited. This can be useful when trying to determine where you want to publish your research.

• Journal Citation Reports
• eigenFACTOR

For more on impact factors and the resources mentioned above, see the following guide: 

Impact Factor and Other Ways of Assessing the Research Value of a Journal

by Susan Boyd