CMU LibGuides: Measuring Your Research Impact: Introduction

Key Recent Documents

Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment
"Based on 10 commitments, establishes a common direction for research assessment reform, while respecting organisations’ autonomy. The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment sets a shared direction for changes in assessment practices for research, researchers and research performing organisations, with the overarching goal to maximise the quality and impact of research.

The Agreement includes the principles, commitments and timeframe for reforms and lays out the principles for a Coalition of organisations willing to work together in implementing the changes."
DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)
"Initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated. The group met in December 2012 during the ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco and subsequently circulated a draft declaration among various stakeholders." - DORA official web site.
IEEE Statement on Appropriate use of Bibliometric Indicators
Succinct statement of IEEE's three tenets regarding the appropriate use of bibliometric indicators.
Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics
A "distillation of best practice in metrics-based research assessment so that researchers can hold evaluators to account, and evaluators can hold their indicators to account."
Metric Tide
Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management (Higher Education Funding Council for England)
The Metrics Project (European)
"The main objective of this project is to develop a deeper understanding of *metrics, especially in terms of their general significance and their perception amongst stakeholders." - Project Web Site.

What is Research Metrics and Research Impact

What is Research Metrics?

Research metrics is the measurement of the impact of published research based on various metrics

What is Research Impact?

"Research impact is the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy. It embraces all the diverse ways that research-related skills benefit individuals, organizations and nations." - Research Councils UK (RCUK)

Why is it important?
Knowing the impact of their research can be helpful to the researcher in many ways: to support applications for tenure or promotion; show broad impact for grants and other funding application; quantify, and learn how their research is being used; identify other researchers that are citing their work and identify potential collaborators.

We can help you...

learn the overall impact of your work
analyze your and your department's research impact
track your research work in social media
enhance the visibility of your research

General Introduction to Research Metrics

MyRI Datasheets
Short focused guides on helpful topics from the MyRI web site.
Meaningful Metrics : A 21st Century Librarian's Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact
Measuring Your Research Impact
This tutorial provides a basic introduction to the topic for the scholarly researcher.
Metrics Toolkit
"... resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question." - web site.
Research Evaluation Metrics by Anup Kumar Das
General text on the topic published by UNESCO.

Meet Our Team

Our team of dedicated experts is constantly honing our skills in order to better support research metrics efforts on campus.

Get Your ORCID ID!

ORCID @ CMU
Join the Carnegie Mellon initiative to carefully manage the tracking of our scholarly output.

Measuring Your Research Impact: Introduction

Announcements

Key Recent Documents

What is Research Metrics and Research Impact

General Introduction to Research Metrics

Meet Our Team

Get Your ORCID ID!