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But, most importantly, measuring research output with  accuracy is important chiefly because \textit{scholars themselves are  interested in knowing their own research performance and impact}.  The measures discussed here --- {\it tori} and {\it riq} --- while not easily computed by an individual, are  easily derived from information already available in virtually all bibliographic  repositories, such as Web of  Science (\url{http://wokinfo.com/}),  Scopus (\url{http://www.scopus.com}), SciFinder (\url{http://www.cas.org/products/scifindr/}),  and ACM-DL (\url{http://dl.acm.org/}).  The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) (\url{http://adsabs.org/}) has already implemented them and  they are currently available to the entire  community of astronomers and astrophysicists. We suggest that these  measures become part other academic databases as well, to allow a  fair measurement of researchers' output across time and disciplines.