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Research Impact

                                                                 

Research Impact can be described as the reach and influence of a scholar’s work. Assessment of research impact looks for answers to questions such as “How many scholars have continued the conversation by citing your articles?” or “What kinds of outcomes has your research led to?”
Research impact can be measured and managed in different ways:

Author Impact: Traditionally measured using the number of times academic publications are cited by other researchers. Most widely used metrics are h-index, citation count and publication count.

Journal Impact: These measurements reflect the importance of a particular journal in a field and take into account the number of articles published per year and the number of citations to articles published in that journal. Most widely used metrics are Journal Citation Reports (JCR) based on Web of Science data and CiteScore based on Scopus date. SCImago is the third widely accepted metric.

Citation Analysis: Library staff can help with the creation of citation reports based on Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar. SciVal can also be used to analyze research impact. Altmetrics (Alternative metrics) can be defined as “the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments”. It is an emerging area complementing traditional bibliometric measures. Altmetrics takes into account non-citation based metrics such as Number of times an article has been viewed or downloaded from a journal website, or database, number of times an article has been exported to a citation
manager, number of times an article has been emailed or shared on social media, as well as mentions. Widely accepted metrics are PlumX, Altmetrics.com and ImpactStory.

Please visit the Library Research Impact Guide for more information.

ORCID ID

                                                                                

An ORCID ID is a unique, persistent sixteen-digit number (e.g. 0000-0001-2345-6789) assigned to an individual researcher. This ID is meant to solve the name ambiguity and researcher identification problems and allows to create a profile that connects all publications, articles, datasets, and other scholarly outputs with this unique ID. ORCID is not limited by discipline or by geographic region or to any proprietary publisher or information provider. Major publishers, funders and research institutions have been adopting this international standard to support improved data exchange between scholarly search platforms and information systems. This ID can also be associated with ResearcherID and Scopus ID.

Koç University requires faculty members to obtain their ORCID ID and to affiliate their profile with Koç University. Koç University is considering the automation of reporting new publications in the Faculty Annual Report on KUFIS. Furthermore, the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK) is also working on a similar integration process on YÖKSİS. ORCID registration guide is available at https://libguides.ku.edu.tr/orcid