Research metrics attempt to quantify the research impact of a publication or authors work. Traditionally, two different companies provide author, article, and journal level metric data:
The library licenses the Scopus database from Elsevier. Scopus is an interdisciplinary citation database of peer-reviewed literature, featuring tools to track, analyze and visualize various research metrics. The following metrics are available within the database:
1. Metrics - How Scopus Works - Scopus - Solutions | Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/metrics. Accessed February 7, 2020.