Welcome to the online companion to the Savvy Researcher research metrics workshop! Research metrics, or bibliometrics, refer to the statistical analysis of written publications, mainly articles. Alan Pritchard created the term in the late 1960's in his paper, Statistical Bibliography or Bibliometrics? Bibliometrics will help you understand how different journals, articles, and scholars are evaluated so that you can make informed decisions about where you would like your work published or what you should start to pay attention to as a scholar in academia. 

This guide is a supplement to the workshop and includes a lot of information that wasn't covered. For example, you can find more specific information about how different metrics are calculated. You will also find links to more in-depth resources that describe many of the session's topics in more detail. Finally, this guide includes a summary of many of the topics that were covered throughout the session, including the controversy surrounding specific metrics and the databases used to determine each metric. Please use the tabs on the left side of the screen to navigate through the guide.

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