Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2014 version of Scholar Metrics. This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2014 and covers articles published in 2009–2013.

Scholar Metrics include journal articles from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines, selected conference articles in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and preprints from arXiv, SSRN, NBER, and RePEc. As in previous releases, publications with fewer than 100 articles in the covered period, or publications that received no citations are not included.

You can browse publications in 8 broad areas like Physics & Mathematics or Life Sciences & Earth Sciences as well as 253 specific categories such as Physical Education & Sports Medicine or Plasma & Fusion. You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number. To see the list of categories in an area, click on the area and then click on “Subcategories”.

Scholar Metrics also includes a large number of journals beyond those listed on the per-category pages. You can find these by typing words from the title in the search box, e.g., [Otorrinolaringologia].

In this release, we have discontinued seven categories that either had too few publications or that fully overlapped with other categories: Microscopy, European Studies, Circadian Rhythms & Sleep, Real-time & Embedded Systems, Back & Spine Health, Lipids, and Cryogenics & Refrigeration. Publications in these categories can now be found in other categories or by searching for words in their titles, e.g., [sleep], [microscopy].

For more details, see the Scholar Metrics help page.

Posted by: Helder Suzuki, Software Engineer