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Increase Your Scholarly Research Impact

Learn how create a scholarly persona to increase your research impact and visibility.

What are Altmetrics?

Altmetrics (alternative metrics) capture mentions of your scholarly article outside the scholarly literature and provide a snapshot of your impact beyond traditional citation metrics.

They can include a wide variety of sources where your journal article is being discussed and used, such as:

  • Public policy documents
  • Discussions on research blogs
  • Mainstream media
  • Bookmarks on Reference Managers, such as Mendeley
  • Mentions on social networks such as Twitter

Where do I find Altmetrics?

Tools for Social Networking Site Readership (mentions in social networks, blogs, and media):

  • Mendeley Readers - Mendeley is not just a citation management software.
    • Researchers can create profiles and build and share their libraries of citations.
    • Mendeley tracks how often citations are saved to libraries as a type of altmetric and can be used as a source of early scholarly impact information.
  • ResearchGate - Social network for research enabling sharing of scholarship, collaboration, and some altmetrics.
  • Academia.edu - Network for researchers to share research and discover research being done by others

Tools for Altmetrics (NOTE: all these tools are subscription-based):