Quality Indicators

Strategies and metrics commonly used to assess publication and research quality and impact.

Tips to assess the credibility and quality of scholarly journals

Citation counts can be used to follow the scholarly conversation provoked by a particular article or inform the impact of an article or author.

A statistical measure used to compare journals in a given field, the Impact Factor is available each year in the Journal Citation Reports.

The H-Index is a popular tool for determining relative impact of an author's work by qualifying an author's cited publications.