Demonstrating the Impact of Your Work
Robyn Hall & Tara Stieglitz September 16, 2014
What does it all mean?
View your own author profile and track the impact of
your research…
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 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