“Beyond citation analysis: a model for assessment of research impact” was recently published and describes a project whereby the authors examined the research impact of a large clinical trial study, the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS). The study found that using citation analysis as a sole tool was not sufficient, nor was it predictive of [...]

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The Public Library in Science (PLoS) articles now include a metrics tab– “Article-Level Metrics“–that allows for evaluation of research impact. Available data includes:

Article usage statistics – HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads
Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef
Social bookmarks – currently from CiteULike and Connotea
Comments – left by readers [...]

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A new report, “Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate their Findings” published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC is now available.
“According to the report, if funders and institutions want to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must [...]

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Are you looking for a collaborator in your area of research? One tool to use to find a potential collaborator is SCOPUS. You can use SCOPUS to find other researchers who have cited your work to discover how they’ve used your research findings. By reviewing publications that cite your work you can learn if other researchers [...]

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PloS recently initiated a program to provide metrics for individual articles published in all PLoS journals. This program focuses on the impact of the article itself instead of the journal and includes metrics for assessing the impact of the article by using indicators such as cited-by citations, social bookmarks, blog coverage, to name a few.
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Interesting article published in PLoS ONE: A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures  (Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R, 2009 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022) discusses  measuring the impact of scientific publications. 
“Our results indicate that the notion of scientific impact is a [...]

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Looking for ways to assess your impact as an author? Take a look at some of the following resources:
SCOPUS (subscription required)
SCOPUS provides an Author Search option that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular author’s work since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation [...]

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How can authors enhance the impact and visibility of their work?

One way is to use the same variation of your name consistently throughout your academic career. If your name is a common name, add a middle name to distinguish yourself from other authors. Standardize your output to maximize your impact.
Retain rights to your work in [...]

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Washington University School of Medicine’s Becker Medical Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Assessing the Impact of Research. Realizing that now, more than ever, researchers need to be aware of the impact of their biomedical research, a team at the library has developed a Model for Assessment of Research Impact that [...]

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