iCite is a tool which provides a dashboard for investigating the impact of publications, exploring their scientific influence, and visualizing the progress of published research, all in one place. iCite is a stand alone public tool and the functionality has been integrated into iSearch Analytics for users to easily access these data. The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) is a metric developed within the Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) that represents a citation-based measure of scientific influence of one or more articles.
iCite has three modules:
- iCite: Influence delivers metrics of scientific influence such as the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), which is field- and time-adjusted, and benchmarked to NIH Literature as the baseline. Read about how RCR is calculated at PLOS Biology.*
- iCite: Translation measures how Human, Animal, or Molecular/Cellular Biology-oriented each paper is and uses this information to track and predict citation by clinical articles. Read about how the Approximate Potential to Translate (APT) score, a machine learning-based estimate of the likelihood that a paper will be cited in later clinical trials/guidelines, is calculated at PLOS Biology.
- iCite: Citations (Open Citation Collection) disseminates link-level, public-domain citation data from the NIH Open Citation Collection (NIH-OCC). Read about the NIH-OCC at PLOS Biology.
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*This publication used R01-funded publications as a benchmark. The current RCR uses all NIH-funded publications as a benchmark.