Tracking Your Research Impact
Tracking Your Research Impact
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This online guide provides tips, tools, and strategies for tracking your research once it is published! It's more than just citation counts now!
Creating Online Author Profiles
Creating Online Author Profiles
When tracking the journey of your published research, there are many different tools available. We recommend setting up three author profiles, each for different reasons.
Open Researcher & Contributor ID
Your personal DOI in the publishing world that disambiguates you from other researchers!
Visit the ORCiD website to register for your free ID and account. Many journals now ask for your ORCiD when you submit!
Auto-track your citation history for all of your publications & increase your visibility!
We recommend signing up with a personal Gmail account instead of your MSP email. Your GS Profile is associated with the account you sign-in with and cannot be transferred later if you leave MSP and will have to be re-created.
Scopus auto-creates author profiles for any author whose work is indexed in the Scopus online database.
It is a good practice to "claim" your profile! Create a free account to verify your publication history, combine authors that Scopus didn't realize are both you, and track your citation history.
Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics)
Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics)
Tracking your research impact moves beyond simply total citation counts and now incorporates alternative metrics, such as shares on social media, article downloads, and more! Try these two free tools:
Altmetric Browser Bookmarklet
Altmetric Browser Bookmarklet
The free Altmetric bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari provides altmetrics on your individual publications including:
Twitter shares
Blog shares
Reads on Mendeley
Sign-up and install the bookmarklet, find your article on the journal website, and click the bookmarklet!
Impact Story
Impact Story
Impact Story is a free scholarly profile similar to Google Scholar, but provides altmetrics data instead of citation data including social media mentions, how many times your work is cited in Wikipedia, and more. It can also link to your ORCiD profile!
You must have an existing Twitter account in order to register for Impact Story.
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