Subject and Course Guides: Measure Your Research Impact: More Resources

More Resources

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) describes best practices for assessing research and applies to all disciplines. These recommendations were developed during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco, CA, on December 16, 2012. Some of their recommendations include:

Don't use journal-based metrics to evaluate the quality of research articles.
Recognize other research products (e.g. datasets, software) in addition to peer-reviewed journal articles.

The Leiden Manifesto, published as a comment in Nature on April 22, 2015 presents 10 principles regarding research evaluation.

Increasing the Visibility of Your Research

The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Raising the Profile of Your Research
Free e-book that includes 30 tips for increasing research visibility. Authored by Stacy Konkiel, Impactstory.
Top Ten Tips for Getting your Research the Attention it Deserves
This article is an excerpt from The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics, a collection on the state of research impact co-produced by Scholastica and Altmetric.

Tracking Research Impact of Other Research Products

Depsy
An open-source web application that tracks research software impact. More information here.
How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics
Alex Ball, Monica Duke (2015). DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre