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Research Impact

Authoring a paper, dissertation, journal article, or book? Find out how to measure its impact in the scholarly community.

Author and Researcher Impact

Broadening Your Research Impact

myRI: Measuring Your Research Impact
A web-based tutorial on bibliometrics and how they support your research. From the National Digital Learning Resources collaboration in Ireland.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Evaluator
Input a title/abstract of a paper you're working on, and Jane will attempt to find the most relevant journal for submission.

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Lists of "Quality" Journals

A few lists of best/top/quality journals in a given field. The Library does not endorse these recommendations but provides them as an aid to identifying appropriate journal titles:

ERIH Plus
Lists of quality academic journals published in Europe, curated by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD).
Top 50 Bioethics Journals and Top 240 Most Cited Bioethics Articles
Compiled by the GU Bioethics Library.

Metrics Trends

"Impact, not Impact Factor," by Inder M. Verma, PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v112 n26, June 30 2015
"Using Scholarcheck Metrics to Track Trends in Legal Research," Shannon Sabo, HeinOnline, May 28, 2015
"How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications," by Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, and Paul Wouters, Scientometrics, v101 n2, Nov 2014
"From Bibliometrics to Altmetrics," by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt, College & Research Libraries News, Nov 2012
"What will the scholarly profile page of the future look like? Provision of metadata is enabling experimentation." by Lambert Heller. LSE "The Impact Blog," July 2015.
"Network-based Citation Metrics: Eigenfactor vs. SJR" by Phil Davies. The Scholarly Kitchen, July 28 2015.

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