Research Services

The NOAA Central Library research team provides NOAA  programs with expert research support. Our services save you time and add value to your project by conducting thorough literature searches to support your work, whether it be for scientific research or making policy decisions. Our services and products are fully customizable and tailored to your needs. 

Please see our Research Services Guide or contact the NOAA Library Research Team at library.reference@noaa.gov.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

A digital object identifier, or DOI, is a persistent, unique alphanumeric identifier that provides a persistent link to an object (most commonly a document, article, or dataset).  The NCL assigns DOIs to all NOAA Technical Memorandum that are submitted to the NOAA IR and will mint a DOI for other eligible NOAA publications, produced after 2015, including: NOAA Professional Papers, NOAA Atlases, NOAA Technical Reports

If you would like to request a DOI for your publication you can do so using our DOI Request Form. 

Citation Analysis

Citation analysis helps assess the value and reach of published research through bibliometrics.  Some of the main uses of bibliometric analyses include:

• Exploring trends in research to identify emerging areas of research and potential bibliography sources
• Identifying top researchers and funding agencies to locate potential collaborators and grant sources
• Evaluating the suitability and desirability of journals before submitting articles for publication

Our bibliometrics team utilizes tools such as h-index, citation counts, percentile rankings to help you determine the impact of your work or that of your office/program.  Some author analysis tools available to researchers include:

• Web of Science
• InCites
• ORCiD
• Google Scholar

Please visit our bibliometrics guide for more information or contact Sarah Davis (sarah.davis@noaa.gov) for assistance with any of these tools.

Author Identifiers

Authors can promote and connect their works through the use of an author identifier. Works can be journal articles, technical memorandum or reports, presentations, posters, etc. Here are identifiers that you may want to claim and keep up to date.

• ORCID - The NOAA Library encourages the creation of an ORCID!
  • An ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals. ORCIDs help disambiguate and identify individual researchers and their scholarly output. ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. A number of scholarly publishers have begun to require authors provide an ORCID upon submission of a publication. 
• ResearcherID
  • A Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier that connects you to your publications across the Web of Science ecosystem (e.g., Web of Science, Publons, and InCites) and provides the global research community with an invaluable index to author information. Web of Science Group products (Web of Science, Publons, InCites, EndNote) use a Web of Science ResearcherID to match and disambiguate researchers across products.
• Google Scholar ID
  • Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. You can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name, e.g., richard feynman.

Bibliometrics

Bibliometrics are the quantitative analysis of academic publications. Using academic publications as a data source, bibliometric analysis attempts to provide a better understanding of how research is produced, organized, and interrelated. It also attempts to evaluate academic publications and sets of publications based on the number of citations these publications have received. Bibliometrics and citation analysis is one way the NOAA Central Library is able to illustrate NOAA's status as producer of world-class research. 

• Bibliometrics can help illustrate the impact of a scholarly publication or group of publications in the greater research community and can support application for grants and research funding.

• When used with other methods such as peer review, bibliometrics is a useful tool in evaluating the research output of programs and researchers.

• Bibliometrics can be used to identify research strengths and gaps in research and inform decisions about future research.

For more information on different types of research impact measurements, please visit our Bibliometrics Guide.