Interesting Nature editorial on measuring individual scientific achievement.
“A poll of Nature’s readers suggests that feelings about metrics are mixed. Many researchers say that, in principle, they welcome the use of quantitative performance metrics because of the potential for clarity and objectivity. Yet they also worry that the hiring, promotion and tenure committees that control their [...]

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) recently released the 2009 edition of JCR. JCR 2009 includes citations from more than 1,600 new journals.

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The Public Library in Science (PLoS) articles now include a metrics tab– “Article-Level Metrics“–that allows for evaluation of research impact. Available data includes:

Article usage statistics – HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads
Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef
Social bookmarks – currently from CiteULike and Connotea
Comments – left by readers [...]

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PloS recently initiated a program to provide metrics for individual articles published in all PLoS journals. This program focuses on the impact of the article itself instead of the journal and includes metrics for assessing the impact of the article by using indicators such as cited-by citations, social bookmarks, blog coverage, to name a few.
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Interesting article published in PLoS ONE: A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures  (Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R, 2009 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022) discusses  measuring the impact of scientific publications. 
“Our results indicate that the notion of scientific impact is a [...]

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Journal Citation Reports recently released data for 2008. New metrics and features include:

5-Year Journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows [...]

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Looking for ways to assess your impact as an author? Take a look at some of the following resources:
SCOPUS (subscription required)
SCOPUS provides an Author Search option that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular author’s work since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation [...]

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How can authors enhance the impact and visibility of their work?

One way is to use the same variation of your name consistently throughout your academic career. If your name is a common name, add a middle name to distinguish yourself from other authors. Standardize your output to maximize your impact.
Retain rights to your work in [...]

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Washington University School of Medicine’s Becker Medical Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Assessing the Impact of Research. Realizing that now, more than ever, researchers need to be aware of the impact of their biomedical research, a team at the library has developed a Model for Assessment of Research Impact that [...]

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Are you interested to knowing how your research has been used? How can it help?

Tenure
Progress reports
Identify similar research projects
Duplication or confirmation of research findings
Correction of research findings
Improvement of research findings
Extension of research (different human populations, different animal models or species, etc.)
Proper attribution/credit of research findings
Quantify return on investment for funding
Justification for future requests for funding
Demonstration of [...]

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