What bibliometric indicators are needed to assess the quality of publications?

At a time when the "fate" of every researcher, laboratory or institution depends in part on the quality of the publications they produce, it's important to understand the evaluation criteria used.

Here we present the main bibliometric indicators and their preferred databases: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor from ISI Web of Science, h-index from Google Scholar and SJR from Scopus.

This sheet will help you understand :

• how these indicators work ;

• their advantages and limitations;

• the need to relativize/contextualize these indicators.