Locate evidence to support statements about the reach of your books and book chapters.
Discover:
- where your books are held
- who is citing your books and where they are from.
Scopus
Find citations for books indexed in Scopus.
- Perform an Author Search (for the book author).
- On the results page, refine the search by book or book chapter.
- The record page for the book/chapter will display a 'Cited By' box. Select the 'View all citing documents' link to view a list of works indexed by Scopus that cite the book/chapter.
- Click Analyse Search Results to analyse documents by
- Author (who is citing your work)
- Affiliation (which organisation they are from)
- Country/territory (where they are from)
- Documents by subject area (demonstrating uptake in areas beyond your immediate discipline).
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index Social Sciences and Humanities / Book Citation Index Science find citations for books indexed in the Web of Science
- Perform a document search.
- Enter the title of the book into the search box and click Search. Alternatively perform an author search.
- Times cited will appear to the right of each search result.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar citations may indicate cites to your work, but not all will necessarily be scholarly. Enter the title of the book chapter and the author names. Click the Cited by link, to view a list of works that cite the book chapter.
Library Holdings
- WorldCat. Find academic library holdings.
- Trove. Find Australian library holdings.
Sample statements:
My book xyz is held in 82 libraries in 15 countries (worldcat.org Dec 2022).
My book xyz is held in 82 libraries, including the US Ivy League and Oxbridge libraries (worldcat.org Dec 2022).
Book Reviews
Book reviews can provide evidence of the esteem in which your publication is held by others in your discipline.
- Access Library Search from the ACU Library website.
- Enter the title of the book into the search box and click Search. Place the title between double quotation marks to minimise irrelevant results.
- In the left hand Refine panel, scroll down to Resource types and select Reviews.
Other impact measures
- Is the book noted on any Best Seller lists?
- Is the book used as a textbook or is it listed on university or school reading lists?
- Is the book available in an e-reader format as well as print?
- Has the book been tweeted on Twitter?
- Is the book noted on a publisher’s best-seller list?
- What are the sales figures for the book?
- Has the book been included in bibliographies?
- Has the author been invited to present on the topic related to the book or book chapter?
- Has the author been invited to book signings?
- Are there subsequent editions to the book?
- Are there any translations of the book?
- Has your book been awarded any prizes or noted by an organization as having made a significant contribution to a field?