Research Impact Indicators & Metrics

To enhance your research impact:

• Choose your publishers carefully, selecting publishers that facilitate research accurate sharing by assigning Digital Object Identifiers and using ORCID.
• Retain copyright to maintain decision making power over your work
• Publish Open Access to reach readers with limited access to subscription journals
• Take advantage of the UMass Open Access policy
• Upload your works to UMass ScholarWorks, our institutional repository
• Use identifiers (DOIs) to ensure reliable permanent links to your publications
• Incorporate your grant ID # in publications and datasets to track citations and downloads of your outputs
• Publish/deposit data, with their own identifiers to track their use, visit AAU's Data Access guide to learn more
• Consider exploring the 30 Day Impact Challege

Creating and updating author profiles and sharing works on multiple platforms creates visibility for readers with different platform preferences and increases the likelihood your work will be discovered in searches

• Create an ORCiD profile to connect your publications and affiliations and distinguish yourself from other researchers.
• Create a profile in the UMass Scholarworks Expert gallery
• Create your Google Scholar profile to help yourself appear in top hits for Google searches for your work
• Create a Mendeley profile to connect your publications and track metrics associated with them
• Claim your Web of Science ResearcherID to make changes to your scholar profile in Clarivate products including Publons.
• Share your work in Zotero
• Consider whether or not to create profiles on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, knowing that they are proprietary sites and you cannot control the ways they use your information

Google Scholar profiles track citations of your work and calculate an H-index for you. This often includes grey literature such as conference presentations.

Web of Science tracks citations of your work in WOS indexed publications and calculates an H-index for you. This is likely to be lower than your Google Scholar H-index because WOS includes fewer publications than Google Scholar.