Research Guides: Research Impact Guide: Exploring Available Metrics

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Discover and Choose Metrics

When integrating metrics into CVs or for other purposes, be sure to consider the wide array of possible metrics and choose those which are most appropriate to your work, your discipline, and the purpose for which these metrics are being shared.

The Metrics Toolkit: Choose Metrics
This tool will help you choose metrics that are best for your unique use case by filtering based on the broad discipline, research output, and desired impact.
The Metrics Toolkit: Explore Metrics
This resource will help you explore different metrics that can be used to describe authors and research outputs, including books, book chapters, journals, journal articles, datasets, and software/code/scripts.
Snowball Metrics
Snowball Metrics represents a set of methodologies agreed upon by a community of research universities, which aim to become global standards for institutional benchmarking. Their "recipe book" can serve as a guide for which metrics might be most suitable for a certain purpose.
The Periodic Table of Scientometric Indicators
From El profesional de la informacion and EC3metrics

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Types of Impact You Might Demonstrate

Areas of research impact could include:

Intellectual impact: Academic/scholarly knowledge, thought, understanding
Cultural impact
Economic impact
Environmental impact
Social impact
Impact on health and wellbeing
Policy influence and change
Impact on or change in practice (teaching, nursing, ...etc.)
Legal impact
Technological developments