With the vast amount of articles that are being published each year, researchers now have to consider what they can do to increase traffic to their publications. Technology has also made it increasingly easier for researchers to increase the visibility of their work through different networking and social media platforms. Increasing a researcher's online presence help raise the visibility of his research works thus increasing the potential of being discovered, downloaded and cited.
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Providing an indication of the quality of your research and scholarly output is considered an important and standard activity when considering career development and seeking funding for research grants. Measurable methods such as citation counts, journal impact factors and researcher specific metrics (collectively referred to as bibliometrics) provide one means of measuring research impact. Should you need to have a bibliometric profile, please contact your Librarian.
Research Impact generally refers to the effect research has in areas outside academia - economy, society, culture, etc. There are some quantitative measures based on citation metrics that are commonly used by academia as an indicator of the influence of research and researchers.
These citation metrics are useful to you as they help you identify key publications and key authors in your field of research. These metrics can also be used to track article impact, journal impact your impact as an author.
Alternative Metrics or Altmetrics are increasingly used to capture and measure online sharing, mentions, views and downloads of scholarly works in social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, blog post and social bookmarks, etc. Compared to the core citation metrics mentioned above, altmetrics is viewed as one of the ways to measure the immediate impact of a work, especially before citation based metrics are available in citation databases.
