Dimensions badges that provide an interactive visualisation of citation data for a publication have been added to STORRE.
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Thanks to the development work of our own Michael White, you’ll see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has a DOI.
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The Dimensions badge shows the ‘Total citations’, that is, the number of times a publication was cited by other publications indexed in Dimensions. (Dimensions is a free multidisciplinary research platform that brings together information about scholarly outputs, funding, policy, patents and grants)
Hover your mouse over the Dimensions badge and you’ll see four core citation metrics: Total citations, Recent citations (those received in the last 2 years), Field Citation Ratio and Relative Citation Ratio).
Click on the Badge to be taken to the accompanying details page that provides more information with links to the citing publications and a visualisation that indicates the publication’s relative influence on specific research areas.
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The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) indicates the relative citation performance of an article when comparing it to other articles in the same area of research. A value of more than 1.0 shows a citation rate above average. The RCR only calculated for publications with a PubMed ID which are at least 2 years old.
The Field Citation Ratio (FCR) is an article-level metric that indicates the relative citation performance of an article, when compared to similarly-aged articles in its subject area. A value of more than 1.0 indicates higher than average citations. The FCR is calculated for publications which are at least 2 years old and were published in 2000 or later.
You can see examples of STORRE records with Dimensions badges at:
Clare Allan
Senior Research Librarian