Bibliometry - a collection of statistical and mathematical methods used to analyse scientific work; a tool useful in parametric evaluation of researchers and research units.

Bibliometric indicators

Impact Factor (IF) – indicator of prestige and influence that the journal has on scientific community. It reflects the frequency of citations of publications from a particular journal – calculated on the basis of Web of Science resources.

CiteScore, SNIP, SJR – indicators of journal influence created on the basis of analysis of citiations from Scopus.

Hirsch index – the number of publications which have been cited at least h times. For example, if Hirsch index is 10, it means that the author has 10 publications cited at least 10 times. Hirsch index depends both on the number of publications and their popularity.


Bibliometric and bibliographic tools:

SciVal –data analyzing tool from the Scopus database

Publish or Perish – a program for finding and analyzing citations in Google Scholar

EndNote – a program to create bibliography, it allows to, among other things, prepare bibliography in various styles, to create one’s own bibliographic databases and import bibliographic data from different databases, eg. EBSCO, Web of Science.


Bibliographic databases:

Web of Science Core Collection (Web of Science platform) – a collection of databases produced by Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters).

Scopus- interdisciplinary databse of abstracts and citations in the mathematical and natural sciences, engineering, medicine and humanities, published by Elsevier.

Master Journal List – a list of scholarly journals, complied and updated by the Institute for Scientific Information. Includes titles from the Institute’s databases (eg. Web of Science Core Collection)