Indicators Handbook

The Indicators Handbook is an overview of available indicators for the Benchmarking & Analytics services of InCites and the data used to calculate them. It explains where data comes from and how it's cleaned, categorized, indexed, and processed to provide meaningful indicators of research performance. The handbook also includes detailed explanations for each indicator, how to calculate them, their value, and examples of appropriate use.

Group Name Indicator Name Researcher Organization Locations Research Area Publication Source Funding Agency
              Impact Indicators     % Documents in Top 1% ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Top 1% ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents in Top 10% ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Top 10% ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents Cited ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Documents Cited ✓ ✓        
Citation Impact ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
1 Year Citing All Prior Years Cumulative       ✓                
H-Index ✓ ✓       ✓  
  Production Indicators Web of Science Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Times Cited ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
    Normalized Indicators Category Normalized Citation Impact ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Journal Normalized Citation Impact ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓
Impact Relative to World ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Average Percentile ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
  Collaboration     Domestic Collaborations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Domestic Collaborations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Organization only Collaborations   ✓        
% Organization only Collaborations   ✓        
International Collaborations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% International Collaborations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Industry Collaborations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Industry Collaboration ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Open Access All Open Access Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gold Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gold Hybrid Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Green Accepted Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Green Published Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Green Submitted Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Free to Read Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Green only Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Non-OA Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% All Open Access Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Gold Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Gold Hybrid Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Green Accepted Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Green Published Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Green Submitted Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
% Green only Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Non-OA Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Free to Read Documents ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  Author Position % First Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
% Last Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
% Corresponding Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
First Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
Last Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
Corresponding Author (2008-2020) ✓ ✓ ✓      
                        Journal Citation Reports Data         Documents in JIF Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Q1 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Q2 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Q3 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Documents in Q4 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents in Q1 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents in Q2 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents in Q3 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Documents in Q4 Journals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
JIF Quartile         ✓  
Cited Half Life         ✓  
Article Influence         ✓  
Immediacy Index         ✓  
Eigenfactor         ✓  
5 Year Impact Factor         ✓  
Impact Factor without Self Cites         ✓  
Journal Impact Factor (JIF)         ✓  
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)         ✓  
Average JIF Percentile         ✓  
JIF Rank         ✓  
JCI Rank         ✓  
JCI Quartile         ✓  
JCI Percentile         ✓  
    Essential Science Indicators Data % Hot Papers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Hot Papers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
% Highly Cited Papers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
Highly Cited Papers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓
ESI Most Cited   ✓        
  Institutional Profile Indicators Acad staff int / Acad staff   ✓        
Acad staff / Stdnt   ✓        
Doctoral degree / Acad staff - norm   ✓        
Doctoral degree / Undergrad degree   ✓        
Inst income / Acad staff   ✓        
Category Normalized citation impact - country / region adj.   ✓        
Papers / Acad and res staff - norm   ✓        
Papers int co-author / Papers   ✓        
Res income / Acad staff - norm   ✓        
Res income ind / Acad staff   ✓        
Res reputation - global   ✓        
Stdnt int / Stdnt   ✓        
Teaching reputation - global   ✓        
                        Entity Attributes         Organization Name   ✓        
Organization Type   ✓        
State or Province   ✓        
Region Name     ✓      
Location Type     ✓      
Research Area       ✓    
Publication Source Name         ✓  
Publication Source Country / Region         ✓  
ISSN         ✓  
eISSN         ✓  
Source Type         ✓  
Funding Agency           ✓
Person Name ✓          
Rank ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Affiliation ✓          
Web of Science ResearcherID ✓          
Country or Region ✓ ✓       ✓  
Level ✓ ✓        
ORCID ✓          
Publisher (All)         ✓  
Publisher (Unified)         ✓  
Web of Science Categories         ✓  

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