{"id":11054,"date":"2022-01-31T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-cu-sites.pantheonsite.io\/library\/?page_id=11054"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:38:22","slug":"research-impact-metrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/library\/research-tools-collections\/guides\/research-impact-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Research Impact & Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some research has more of an impact on the academic and professional community than others. It can be extremely useful to determine how much impact the work you’re considering has had on the subject it concerns, and also how impactful your own research has been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Can You Measure the Impact of Your Research? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Citations to publications are the most common indicators of impact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4><\/div>
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Citation counts calculate how often an article was cited in other scholarly works. These counts are collected at the level of an individual publication (article-level indicators) and can be “rolled up” to include all publications by an individual author, research group, institution or country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H-Index is an example of an indicator derived from calculating citation counts to a group of publications (traditionally, of an individual author, but also research groups or entire institutions).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact of journal titles can also be measured by indicators constructed using aggregate citation counts to groups of publications (Scopus’s CiteScore, for example).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alternative metrics or “altmetrics”\u00a0have potential to show the impact of a broader range of research output.<\/h4><\/div>
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Indicators based on measuring and benchmarking usage of scholarly content outside journal articles are known collectively as alternative metrics or altmetrics. These metrics have potential to show impact of a broader range of research outputs and impact outside the research community. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Metric Tracking Databases<\/h3>\n\n\n
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