Manage Your Research Identity and Track Your Impact
This guide describes how to build a researcher identity online through the use of unique IDs and social media profiles. It also describes online tools for tracking the impact of your research.
This Tools
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AltmetricArticle level impacts from Altmetric are available in results from the Library search box, and from many other publishers and indexes. You can also use the Altmetric bookmarklet in your browser to find a summary for articles and datasets you find online.
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Impactstory
Impactstory is a non-profit app that researchers can use to find and share the impacts of their articles, data, software, and other scholarly outputs. Free for individuals. -
Depsy
Depsy promotes credit for software as a fundamental building block of science.
Other Options:
Many platforms offer download and pageview statistics for the articles and other research outputs that they host. These metrics are for your research's use on that platform only. These platforms include:
- Journal websites
- Institutional repositories (PRISM at the University of Calgary)
- Subject repositories
- Academia.edu
- ResearchGate
An Altmetrics Case study
On May 20, 2013, York University science librarian John Dupuis published a blog post titled The Canadian War on Science, in which he documented various cuts to science funding by the federal Conservative government, and the government's various policies restricting public and media access to federal scientists and scientific information. The post got a lot of coverage in mainstream and social media, but not in a way that's well measured by traditional impact metrics. Dupuis set out to document the influence of his post.
- The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment (Original post)
Read Dupuis' original post.
- The Canadian War on Science: The #Altmetrics impact of a science policy blog post
Dupuis' analysis of the reach and impact of his original post.