Library: Research: Impact Analysis

Research Assessment

Competencies model for bibliometric work (version 1.2; June 2021)
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - Rethinking Research Assessment - Ideas for Action
Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment - Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) - July 2022
Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes - AAMRI. The AAMRI Research Impact Framework Final Report May 2021
Australian Research Council - Engagement and Impact Assessment
Australian Research Council - Excellence in Research for Australia
Australian Research Council - Research Impact Principles and Framework
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020 ABS 12970.0
Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment - CoARA - European Union
International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) - Research Evaluation Working Group
Interpreting the citation performance of individual researchers with beamplots - Web of Science
UK Research and Innovation - Research Excellence

Measuring Your Impact

There are various methods of measuring the impact of a publication, a researcher and their research.

H-Index : an index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output (J.E. Hirsch).
Beamplots - A beamplot shows the volume and citation impact of an individual’s publication portfolio through time.
Citation Analysis : the process whereby the impact or "quality" of an article is assessed by counting the number of times other authors mention it in their work.
Impact Factor : a measure of the frequency in which the average article in a journal is cited in a particular year. Impact factors measure the impact of a journal, not the impact of individual articles or authors.

The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths) - The Scholarly Kitchen - 26 July 2022

Measures of Impact for Journals, Articles, and Authors - Journal of General Internal Medicine - 23 March 2022

Why I wrote an impact CV - Nature - 1 February 2022

Put that on the CV: the impact of research [includes an impact CV template] - AAMRI - Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes - 1 February 2022

A science impact framework to measure impact beyond journal metrics - PLOS One - 22 December 2020

Author Metrics - Web of Science

To find an author's impact beamplot and H-index count in Web of Science:

Enter the name of the author in the search box (e.g. Smith JT) and select the Author Search option..
To ensure accuracy for popular names, add an additional search box, enter their institution and then select “Address” from the field drop down menu on the right.
Click on Search
Check the Citation Network box to the right of the results. It shows the H-Index, Total Publications, Sum of Times Cited and Citing Articles.

Journal Impact Factors and Other Measures

The Web of Science has a module called Journal Citation Reports that tracks journal impact factors. The Library does not have a subscription to this module.