Information Literacy Resource Bank

Bibliometrics 3 – Finding data for publications

This section introduces you to some of the databases available at Cardiff University. You may be familiar with databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, but may not have used them for retrieving bibliometric data. In addition, bibliometric data can be retrieved from other databases, such as SciVal, which is a specialized bibliometrics database, Overton and Dimensions

Tutorial aims

• Identify the most commonly used sources of bibliometric and altmetric data at Cardiff University.
• Use these sources to retrieve bibliometric and altmetric data.