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Know the Quality of your Research

If you want to know the impact or quality of your research, you should use Citation Analysis . It is process by which the quality of a research article is assessed by counting the number of times other authors mention it in their work i.e., it involves counting the number of times a research article is cited by other works. H-Index is one specific method or metric to measure an author’s productivity and citation impact. This index is based on the set of the author's most cited research papers and the number of citations that these papers have received in other publications. It can be more clearly understood by this example, an h-index of 25 means the researcher has 25 papers, each of which has been cited 25+ times. The theoretical details of how this index is defined and calculated is given on this link ( click here ). There are a number of resources that identify cited works and calculates H-Index , automatically, namely: Google Scholar, Scopus, and many more. The mo