Research Guides: Impact Factor and Journal Metrics: Book Impact Factor

A number of disciplines, especially in the Social Sciences and the Arts & Humanities publish a lot their research in books and other types of publications.

These disciplines are not that well served by traditional tools of citation analysis that primarily focus on journal literature.
So how do you gauge the scholarly impact of your books and chapters in books?

Listed below are a few strategies. While they are not perfect or comprehensive, they can help you collect some relevant data:

WorldCat Discovery
To assess the scholarly impact of your books, search each title in WorldCat Discovery and in each relevant record, check the "Libraries Worldwide" field. It will tell you how many Libraries own that item and provide the names of the Libraires.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar’s strength lies in the fact that it not only indexes journal articles but also books, book chapters and other non-traditional sources such as promotional pages, table of contents pages, course reading lists etc.