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Research Impact Metrics

Understand and communicate the impact of your scholarship

Maximizing Impact

Below is a list of resources that can help you organize, promote, and provide easy access to your research in order to maximize your impact.

How to Maximize Your Impact
Used with permission from NCSU Libraries
NinerCommons
Repository of materials from campus
Unique Author Identifiers
Connect all data, publications, and other content you create through a unique author number.
Google Scholar

Author or Organization Impact

How to Measure Researcher Impact
Used with permission from NCSU Libraries
Measure Your Research Impact: Author Impact
Used with permission from UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries
Publication Metrics: Author Impact
Used with permission from Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives

Tools for Author-level Metrics

Metrics Toolkit
Web resource to help scholars and evaluators understand and use citations, web metrics, and altmetrics responsibly in the evaluation of research.
Publish or Perish Product Profile
User tips for combining records that should be combined (author has two last names or foreign name)