One way you can use InCites is to create a more robust citation report for an individual researcher than might be created in other products, like Web of Science. This is because InCites will allow you to calculate citation metrics relatively to other researchers in the same broad research area (using the Category Normalized Citation Impact) or other authors in the same journal (using the Journal Normalized Citation Impact). This avoids the common pitfall of using a measurement about a journal (like a Journal Impact Factor) to describe the individual works of a researcher.

To do this type of report:

1. Go to the Analyze > People section of InCites
2. Using the Filters on the left, choose By Attributes > Person Name or ID to enter either alternate forms of their name (Last, First) or a ResearcherID or ORCID associated with them.
   • If using a name search, be sure to use Last Name, First Initial (or First Name) to find all of the ways the name may be entered as an author.
   • Records since 2008 will have institutions affiliated with each name variant so you can look for items associated with that name at a current or previous organization.  Records with n/a as the affiliation could be from any organization or may be a mix of same-named authors from multiple organizations.
   • You can narrow down your selection for common names by also selecting Affiliated organizations and entering any organization the researcher may have been affiliated with.  This will restrict your search to items published since 2008.
3. To combine and total across all of the researcher’s publications, click the box next to each relevant name variation and Pin to Top.  Then, click on Baseline and choose Baseline for Pinned Items.
4. Click on the gear at the top left of the listing to add columns of metrics you would like to see.  Some suggested metrics include:
   • Category Normalized Citation Impact
   • Journal Normalized Citation Impact
   • h-index
   • etc.