Demonstrating the Impact of Your Work

Robyn Hall & Tara Stieglitz September 16, 2014

Impact

What does it all mean?

Bibliometrics…

View your own author profile and track the impact of

your research…

Scopus

Scopus

Web of Science

Author-level metrics, tracking citations over time

Google Scholar

Claim your own profile! Track your citations over time

scholar.google.ca

https://twitter.com/LegoAcademics

Altmetrics…

RG Score… based on how all of your research is

received by your peers.

researchgate.net

1338 views 17 Likes 65 downloads

slideshare.net

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/educational-psychology

3839 views 47 downloads

2 weeks after publication

plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105948

The Altmetric Bookmarklet www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

ajconline.org/article/S0002-9149(12)02464-2/abstract

Data-driven stories of all your impactsArticles, slides, datasets, software, etc. -https://impactstory.org

https://impactstory.org/HeatherPiwowar

orcid.org/0000-0003-1613-5981

Create a unique researcher identifier then link research outputs to this identifier.

Scopus

Scopus ID, DOIs, etc. ORCID

SlideShare

GitHub

Etc.

ImpactStory.orgProfile

Scholarly impacts

Social impacts

What does it all mean?

chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Altmetrics-Revives/139557

Dossier included: Blog post views,

Tweets about

research, Data set

views, SlideShare

downloads, Paper

citations, downloads

and views

Criticisms

Open to interpretation

Gameable

High impact ≠ quality

Cherry-picking

Public engagement

Professional engagement

Immediate impact indicator

Metric Merits

Look at the stories the data tell you

Broadened definition of impact

Questions? Comments?

http://tiny.cc/demoimpact Thanks+ Special thanks to

ImpactStory.org