Who's Citing Me? Measuring Your Research Impact

Bibliometrics
“The quantitative measures used to assess research output i.e. publication and citation data analysis” (MyRI).

Citation Impact
The impact of a particular work is measured by the number of times it is cited by other works and alternative metrics such as downloads and social media buzz.

Researcher Impact
The success of researchers can be measured by the number of works they publish and the number of times their works are cited.

Journal Impact
The importance of particular academic journals can be measured by the number of times their articles are cited and where they are cited. 

• Promotion and tenure reviews
• Grant applications
• Benchmark performance
• ID strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrate return on investiment

Bibliometrics and altmetrics are important, but controversial.  DORA (the Declaration of Research Assessment) is both a petition and declaration which recognizes the need to improve the way research is assessed using bibliometrics, pointing out the flaws in relying on journal metrics. 

Evaluators need to be aware of the tools and their scope, use multiple tools and approaches, and be tranparent when calculating results.

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We can show you how to track citations to your work, how to measure your personal research impact, and how to set up unique researcher IDs.

Research and Learning Office
A.R. Dykes Health Sciences Library
(913) 945-5990
dykesresearh@kumc.edu

The authors would like to thank Emory University Libraries, the University of Oxford-Radcliffe Science Library, University of Maryland Libraries, Harvard University Library, and Cornell University Library for allowing us to adapt material from their libguides.