Guide to Scholarly Writing, Publishing, and Research Impact: Assessing Impact

This guide to scholarly communications will acquaint researchers with knowledge and tools for better understanding and managing the creation and dissemination of their scholarly research.

Table of Contents: Assessing Impact

Responsible Use of Metrics
Which Metric(s) to Use?
Tracking Citations of Your Research
Beyond Citation: Altmetrics
Additional Metrics for Books
HuMetrics for the Humanities and Other Emerging Metrics
Researcher Metrics
Using Metrics in CVs, Grant Applications, Etc.

"Impact isn’t necessarily having lots of downloads or traffic to a website, impact can also be a directed process to make someone, the right someone, take action."

- Toby Green, "Publication is not enough, to generate impact you need to campaign"