Dr. Sameh Eltaybani, PhD, Project Senior Lecturer in Global Nursing Research Center
Research metrics are tools that quantify various aspects of academic research to evaluate its reach, influence, and significance within the scholarly community. Dr. Eltaybani, Senior Lecturer at the Global Nursing Research center (GNRC), The University of Tokyo, wrote this article to outline key research metrics that are widely used to evaluate the contribution or impact of journals, individual articles, and researchers. The article explained the concept of scholarly databases and indexing and outlined merits and demerits of key research metrics, highlighting important considerations in their interpretation and use.
Access the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1097/AJN.0000000000000161