Citation Impact

Article citations are a traditional measure of article-level impact.  Citation Databases can be used to determine how many times an article has been cited within that particular database.  This can be a laborious process; the more databases and data resources that you consult, the more complete your list of citing documents will be.  

Google Scholar can be very helpful in tracking article-level metrics, as Google tracks this data more broadly.  You can set up a free profile to track citations to your articles.  If you have access to them, Web of Science and Scopus are also powerful tools for gathering article-level metrics.

The Lens is also useful for tracking metrics.  It may be particularly useful if you are looking for citations of book chapters, which are not as well represented in Google Scholar, Web of Science, or Scopus. Lens provides metrics for a variety of research outputs such as patents, scholarly works (including journal articles, monographs, and others), academic profiles, patent classifications, and climate landscapes, referring particularly to reports on climate change. It can also aggregate metadata related to patents to also include biological sequences within patent literature. Lens draws its data from patents offices around the world as well as academic databases.