Research Impact

"Impact" describes the reach and influence of a scholar's work. Assessment of impact attempts to reconstruct the value you have given back to the community by examining things such as ...

• How many scholars have continued the conversation by citing your articles?
• Who is citing your articles?
• What kinds of outcomes has your research led to? Have people built better protocols, instrumentation, or practice based on work you have done?
• Who is noticing you? Have you given presentations to the government? To your local community?
• What kind of impact have you had on your advisees? What impact has your advisor had on you?

Bibliometrics is the statistical analysis of bibliographic data, commonly focusing on citation analysis of research outputs and publications, i.e. how many times research outputs and publications are being cited. Bibliometric analysis is becoming an increasingly important way to measure and assess research impact of individuals, groups of individuals or institutions. Bibliometrics can help you to make decisions about where to publish your research and how to get information about the impact of published research. This guide provides information about the most common tools that individual researchers or research administrators can use to measure the impact of their own or their institutions impact.