Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the Data Citation Index. The index will be hosted on the Web of Knowledge platform, and will become available in late 2012.

The Academic Knowledge and Language graphic visualises the role that language of publication plays in the dissemination of academic knowledge through scholarly journals. It is obvious from first glance that English is entirely dominant.

A journal's impact factor is a tool many researchers use to measure their research impact.

The latest Journal Citations Reports®* have recently been released by Thomson Reuters.

The 2010 release features the largest ever JCR with 10,196 journal listings in 238 disciplines of Science and Social Sciences. 2,494 publishers from 84 countries are represented, some for the first time. A total of 1,075 journals receive their first Journal Impact Factor in the latest JCR release.

(Thomson Reuters press release)

How can you keep track of your citation metrics? Do you ever wonder why they are important for your grant applications?

Come along to this seminar presented by Dr Amberyn Thomas and find out about the increasing role of citation metrics in measuring research performance. At this seminar, we will look at the field of citation metrics as it relates to grant applications, and show you some of the tools that can assist you.