MyRI Measuring your research impact

MyRI  Measuring your research impact

Video created by the libraries of DCU, DIT, NUIM and UCD


Module 1  :   Bibliometrics

Introduction and definition
Research assessment and evaluation – stakeholders   

• Government and funding agencies
• Institutional management and administration
• College, faculties, schools
• Individual researchers
• The main metrics 

Publication and citation counts
H-index
The main tools

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar + Publish or Perish

Module 2 :  Track your research impact

Citation analysis tools
Citation searching
SWOT of Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
Using citation analysis tools
Search for your publications

• How many citations?
• Most highly cited paper?
• Setting citation alerts

Introduction to the H-index
Calculating your H-index (by database)

Other metrics

• Metrics from institutional repositories
• Publication and citation data for a group or department
• Institutional affiliation
• Benchmarking research performance
• Essential Science Indicators

Module 3:  Journal ranking and analysis

Journal ranking and analysis
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Impact Factor calculations and high impact journals
Journal metrics by category
Individual journal metrics
Issues and limitations



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