Making an Impact: Tracking Your Research Metrics

Impact metrics can be divided into three broad categories, from which a wide variety of unique indicators can be derived.

Select one to learn more:

Citation-Based Metrics

• Consider the number of times your publications have been cited in other research publications

Altmetrics

• Consider how people interact with your research outputs in both traditional media (e.g. newspapers, tv news, journal websites) and social media (e.g.Twitter, Mendelay Dataverse, Github, etc.) 

Journal Metrics

• Consider the impact of a given academic journal (e.g. JAMA) by looking at the number of citations its published articles receive

Advanced Metrics

• Consider patterns in citation and publication data to derive a variety of specialized indicators for impact analysis.