Subject Guides: Research Impact: Advice and Tools

Measure Your Research Impact

Advice and tools for measuring research impact related to publications:

Altmetric.com
Access altmetric data about the University of Tasmania
InCites
Analysis and reporting tool using metrics based on Web of Science data. Enables publications-related analysis of individual researchers, institutions and countries.

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NB. On campus access only.
Very useful online tutorials at: http://clarivate.libguides.com/incites_ba
SciVal
Get a high-level overview of the research performance of your Institution, other Institutions, Countries and Groups of Researchers.
Compare and benchmark your Institution to other Institutions, Researchers and Groups of Researchers using a variety of metrics.
Explore the collaboration network of both your Institution and other Institutions.
Introduction to SciVal
Watch this 5 minute quick-start video to learn how SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 8,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide. SciVal enables you to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and analyze research trends.
MyRI: An Open Access toolkit to support bibliometrics training and awareness
This provides an informative overview of where to look for bibliometrics about your research. It has not been customised for UTAS at this stage but contact your Liaison Librarian if you have questions about anything that is mentioned.
Learning and Research Librarians
Contact our Learning and Research Librarians to ask for tailored help in measuring your research impact.

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Find more about metrics on publications and data:

From bibliometrics to altmetrics: a changing scholarly landscape
This article identifies and links to an extensive range of metrics (bibliometrics and altmetrics) currently available.
Metrics Toolkit
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The Metrics Toolkit provides evidence-based information about research metrics across disciplines, including how each metric is calculated, where you can find it, and how each should (and should not) be applied. You’ll also find examples of how to use metrics in grant applications, CVs, and promotion dossiers.
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALMs): measuring the impact of research
This overview describes the PLoS Article Level Metrics:

Article-Level Metrics are a comprehensive set of impact indicators that enable numerous ways to assess and navigate research most relevant to the field itself, including:
- usage
- citations
- social bookmarking and dissemination activity
- media and blog coverage
- discussion activity and ratings

Source list of publications from research databases

Publishing in articles and conferences that are indexed by major research databases helps your research to be discovered and be cited by other researchers.

Scopus lists of journals, conferences and books
Web of Science Conference Proceedings source list
Scroll down the screen to the heading Conference Lists to find the link to an Excel spreadsheet
Web of Science Core Collection journal lists
Thomson Reuters master list of databases and journal source lists. Choose: Arts & Humanities Citation Index; or Social Sciences Citation Index; or Science Citation Expanded Index

Altmetric bookmarklet

Reading a paper and want to find out its Altmetric details? Install the free bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

When you're looking at the paper, simply click on the Altmetric bookmarklet to see if it's been mentioned in Twitter, on FaceBook, in a news outlet, on a blog etc. This will work for:

papers in PubMed, arXiv or pages containing a DOI
any publishers who embed Google Scholar friendly citation metadata on their pages by default. They're adding support for others and you can hurry along support for a particular journal by asking @altmetric for it on Twitter
[Twitter mentions] for articles published since July 2011

See the FAQ for more information.

Altmetric bookmarklet

Funding Sources

Research Professional
An online database of research funding opportunities and a source of international research policy and practice news.
Access provided by Office for Research Services, UTAS.

University of Tasmania, Australia

Research Impact

Measure Your Research Impact

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Source list of publications from research databases

Altmetric bookmarklet

Funding Sources