Citation tracking is one way to assess the impact of articles in scholarly journals. An article is assessed by counting the number of times other authors mention it in their work. Researchers do citation tracking for several reasons:
There is no single citation analysis tool that will find all citations. The most comprehensive citation searching resources are:
Limitations:
**Always state citations count based on tool use > As according to:....
The h-index measures the impact of a particular researcher rather than a journal. It takes into account the number of papers published and the number of citations received by these papers resulting in a single number rating.
Limitations of h-index
*For more on citation analysis and h-index see the UIC Libraries guide.
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