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Research Impact and Academic Profile Management

This guide supplements the Research Impact Assessment services provided as part of Research Services and Digital Strategies unit.

Bibliometrics is the application of counts and statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data. It can reveal relationship and trend insights in the scholarly work ecosystem. For example, we can try to identify emerging topic trends within a grouping of works, or provide indicators regarding a publication set of a individual, research group, and institutions.

If you have a project in mind, but are not sure how to get started or you just looking for assistance, see the Research Impact Assessment services page. We can help with the various types of projects, such as:

  • Overview of a research area or subject
  • Researcher profiles
  • Portrait of a research group or department (productivity, impact, collaborations etc)
  • Responsible comparisons

We also offer:

  • Training and presentations on bibliometrics, bibliometric indicators and persistent identifiers
  • Advice for using bibliometric tools
  • Help for the proper interpretation of bibliometric indicators

Getting Started with Research Impact and Profile Management

Good research metrics data relies on clean, disambiguated relationships between the works, and the people and organizations that are related to those works. These relationships are dependent on persistent identifiers. Many errors and miss-assignments can occur without human intervention or other systems to inform/apply accuracy. Researchers are encouraged to learn and invest some time and employ assistance in their profile; institutions are encouraged to adopt inter-operable research information management systems that assist in profile management and inform accuracy for their researchers across the ecosystem.


MANAGE YOUR IDENTITY (PROFILE): 3 STEPS

  1. Create a unique online ID using ORCID to make you unique from all other authors with same last name and initials.
  2. Determine what academic and professional audiences is the best fit for your scholarship and reach intentions. Create a profile on these platforms to promote your qualifications and output. If there is functionality to link to other profiles, such as ORCID, this is strongly recommended.
  3. Analytic tools can be used to see who is reading, citing, mentioning, and otherwise using your work. Traditional research metrics (i.e. bibliometrics) are metrics at the author, source and item level available for mostly commercially published work. Alternative metrics, known as 'altmetrics', demonstrate various forms and categories of digital engagement, such as views, downloads, bookmarks etc.

 

WHY YOU SHOULD: 6 REASONS

There is an upfront time/effort commitment but you will realize these benefits:

  • A strong profile, that stands independent of any institution or platform (like ORCID) and is inter-operable with other platforms, can go with you where ever and how ever you go in your career
  • It is the new CV that can assist you with career promotion or job seeking
  • It can resolve misspellings and/or misattributions of your work in analytic tools and provide attribution to hidden scholarly work (such as peer review)
  • It helps identify you to potential collaborators or mentors working in the same area of scholarship/institutions
  • It gives you a sense of how your work reaches scholars and global community
  • It will save you time in updating your profile going forward