Articles
The traditional proxy measure of impact, the citation, is applicable to the individual article as well. The number of times a given article is cited by other articles can be tracked in the traditional literature. Several databases offer the feature to find articles within their database that cite a given article.
NOTE: Each source of metrics may show different numbers due to differences in the sources they use.
CINAHL Plus
- Use Cited Reference search (click on More at the top of the screen to see this option) to identify the target article, select it then click Find Citing Articles.
Google Scholar - See Cited by links below each search result
Microsoft Academic Search - See Citations links to the right of the title in search results
PsycInfo
- See Times Cited in this Database link on the left in the single citation view
Web of Science
- See Times Cited links at the bottom of each search result
Raw data associated with an article is sometimes made available to other researchers for re-use. Resulting articles may cite the original article or the dataset itself.
Dryad - can see number of views of data record and number of downloads of datasets