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Research

Measuring your research impact

What is your research impact?

This is the impact that your research has had on health services and society more broadly.

There are a variety of ways to measure research impact:

  • Publication metrics including publication and citation counts, open access ratio and H-index
  • Altmetrics (alternative metrics) including news, social media mentions, and other non-traditional bibliometrics

Research impact can be measured at author or article level.

  • Register for a free account and log in.
  • Link with your ORCID (your ORCID and Lens profiles will now sync)
  • You can record authorship on individual works or do a bulk claim:
  • Once you have added your works to your profile you can access the following metrics:
    • # of Scholarly Works
    • Open Access ratio
    • Collaborative ratio
    • H-index
    • Scholar Citations
    • Histogram of scholarly works over time
  • You can also access your impact story where you can find stats on some altmetrics e.g. news mentions, Wikipedia articles, blog posts  etc. 
  • Register for a free account and log in
  • Click on Researcher and then Search
  • Type your name and select your record from the drop-down list
  • Access the following metrics:
  • # of publications, grants, patents, clinical trials and other documents
  • # of open access publications
  • # of citations
  • Average number of citations
  • Export  your results in a csv file or an EndNote RIS file
  • Click on the Researchers tab
  • Select Name search to search by name or Author Identifiers to search by ORCiD or Researcher ID
  • Select the relevant researcher record
  • Refer to the Metrics box for standard measures of research impact:
    • H-Index
    • # of publications
    • # of publications as corresponding author or first author
    • # of open access publications
    • # of citations
    • # of citing articles
  • View the citation report for:
    • a graph of citations over time
    • analysis of citations of your work

  • View the Author Impact Beamplot Summary
    • a normalized citation percentile for your papers compared to others of the same age, category and document type