Manage Your Research Identity and Track Your Impact
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- Social Networks for Researchers
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Take the 30 Day Impact Challenge
This free ebook guides you through a series of steps to help you increase the impact of your research and scholarship through a variety of methods, mostly focusing on altmetrics.
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What are altmetrics?A guide to all things altmetric. What are altmetrics, who uses them, where you can find them, and how to use them for career advancement.
- Home
- Create Author IDs
- Impact Metrics
- Altmetrics
- Social Networks for Researchers
- Institutional use of metrics
- Further Reading
- Contact
Take the 30 Day Impact Challenge
This free ebook guides you through a series of steps to help you increase the impact of your research and scholarship through a variety of methods, mostly focusing on altmetrics.
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What are altmetrics?A guide to all things altmetric. What are altmetrics, who uses them, where you can find them, and how to use them for career advancement.
Tools
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Article 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 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.
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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.
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