Identify how your research shapes policy, patents, and the work of your peers with guidance from a librarian. This influence can be measured via references in citations, social media, legislation, and more. Librarians can teach scholars how to locate these references and other research impact metrics from subscription databases, help authors find potential collaborators, and identify impactful publishers for their manuscripts.
Find tips and resources in our online guide or schedule an appointment to meet with a librarian.
This guide brings together tools and resources that measure scholarly impact using both traditional metrics and emerging web-based alternatives, referred to as altmetrics. Find information to help you compile departmental publications, discover potential collaborators, compare journals, find grants and other funding, and more.
In a research impact consultation, a librarian can show scholars how to:
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