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

Assessing the Impact of Research

Assessing the Impact of Research
This model was developed by the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University. While it was developed to assess biomedical research, the model can be adapted to other disciplines.
Quantifying the Impact of My Publications
"This guide, also from the Bernard Becker Medical Library, reviews publication data and how it can be used to demonstrate performance and impact. Publication data is more than just raw numbers and can be used to add contextual background for tenure or grant purposes and in some instances, illustrated to tell a more compelling story based on research activities."
Using Publication Metrics to Highlight Academic Productivity and Research Impact
This article was published in Academic Emergency Medicine in October 2014. "This article provides a broad overview of widely available measures of academic productivity and impact using publication data and highlights uses of these metrics for various purposes. "

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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.

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

Telling Impact Stories: Using the Becker Model

Source: Yale Medical Library, https://library.medicine.yale.edu/tutorials/1390

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.