Library Help: Office For Open Research

What is InCites?

InCites is a research analytics platform developed by Clarivate that enables users to evaluate research performance using data from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides a range of metrics and insights to support benchmarking, collaboration analysis, and strategic decision-making. With InCites, you can:

• Assess the citation performance of individual publications, researchers, or institutions
• Benchmark research output and impact against other institutions or countries
• Identify potential collaborators or partnerships based on research trends and impact
• Explore trends across disciplines or in specific research topics
• Evaluate the influence of research in societal contexts, such as policy or patents

How do I access InCites?

A link to access InCites is available via Library search

You will need to create a personal account to access Incites - using your University of Manchester email address. If you already have an account for Web of Science, you can use the same login credentials.

You can also access Incites directly via Web of Science (if you are logged into that product): simply click on the Products menu at the top right of the screen and select Incites Benchmarking & Analytics from the list of options.

How do I use InCites?

When you log in to InCites, you’ll see several three main features displayed:

• ‘Analyze’ - 'Report' - 'Organize'

'Analyze'
 allows you to analyse various entities:

• People: Individual researchers or groups of researchers
• Institutions: Universities or research organizations
• Countries: National research outputs and impacts
• Research Areas: Defined using subject categories or custom topic searches

'Analyze' is also where you can access a range of bibliometric indicators, including:

• Normalized Citation Impact (NCI): Measures the citation impact of an entity relative to global benchmarks
• Percent of publications in top citation percentiles: Tracks high-impact publications in top 1%, 5%, or 10% by citations
• Collaboration metrics: Shows the extent of domestic, international, and industry-academic collaborations
• Open Access metrics: Tracks the proportion of publications available in open-access formats

You can also use the Analyze tab to explore trends, benchmark performance, and track developments in specific research areas.

'Report'

InCites allows you to create reports summarising your analyses. Reports can be customised with visualizations and exported in various formats for sharing or inclusion in presentations and documents.

'Organize'

Incites allows you to save, organise and revisit previous analyses by saving to your personal profile.

More information

You can access further information and guidance via the following resources:

• Getting Started with InCites, provided by Clarivate
• Clarivate’s Indicators handbook, which offers detailed explanations on the methodologies used in the creation of the various Incites indicators and guidance on how to use them.
• Guidance on responsible use of Incites, Developed by the LIS Bibliometrics community, this guide has been created to support all users of InCites and promote a community of informed and responsible use.

Contact us

If you have any specific questions around using Incites, please don’t hesitate to contact the Office for Open Research team