Manage Your Research Identity and Track Your Impact
This guide describes how to build a researcher identity online through the use of unique IDs and social media profiles. It also describes online tools for tracking the impact of your research.
Books available from the library
- The Evaluation Society byCall Number: HM786 .D35 2012ISBN: 9780804776929Publication Date: 2011-11-09
- Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education byCall Number: LB2331.62 INTERNETISBN: 9780230306394Publication Date: 2011-03-08
- The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators byISBN: 9781843345725Publication Date: 2010-01-20
Institutional use of metrics
Research administrators are increasingly turning to various metrics to help them evaluate the outputs, productivity, and impact of researchers at their institutions. These resources help institutions and research administrators use metrics effectively and appropriately.
- Informing Research Choices: Indicators and JudgmentThis report, completed by the Council of Canadian Academies, provides recommendations around the use of indicators and assessment approaches in natural sciences and engineering disciplines.
- The Leiden ManifestoThis article, published in 2015, outlines a series of 10 principles to avoid the misuse of quantitative metrics in the evaluation of research. The manifesto focuses on the importance of transparency, context, and qualitative expertise in the use and interpretation of metrics. The article is summarized in video form above.
- The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and ManagementThis review, conducted by a group of British experts, identifies 20 recommendations for the current and future roles that quantitative indicators can play in the assessment and management of research.
- San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)This declaration was initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals. It recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated. The University of Calgary signed on to DORA in 2021.