Measuring research impact

Leah Emary and Clare McCluskeyAcademic Liaison Librarians, ILS

Demonstrating impact

-Traditional

-Complementary

The support ILS offers your supervisees (and you)

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Journal Impact Factor

2008 impact factor = A/B

A = the number of times that all items published in that journal in 2006 and 2007 were cited by indexed publications during 2008.

B = the total number of "citable items" published by that journal in 2006 and 2007. ("Citable items" for this calculation are usually articles, reviews, proceedings, or notes; not editorials or letters to the editor).

(Wikipedia Contributors, 2015)

From http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/

Hirsch Index

“For example, an h-index of 20 means there are 20 items that have 20 citations or more. This metric is useful because it discounts the disproportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have not yet been cited.”

(Thompson Reuters Web of Science)

(Hirsch, 2005)

Citation reports

The complementary way

Article-centric (more individual)

Dig deeper

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Altmetrics

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Resources and Bibliography

• Hirsch J.E. (2005) An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (46), pp.16569 - 16572. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283832/

• Wikipedia contributors (2015) Impact Factor. Available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor [Accessed 21/01/2015].

• Altmetric, http://www.altmetric.com/

• Impact Factor Search, http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/

• Web of Science, http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ezproxy.yorksj.ac.uk/

• Google Scholar Metrics, http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html

• Scopus, http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus

• ILS Researcher Support Blog, http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/

• ResearcherID & ORCID http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/orcid-id-for-researchers.html