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Research Impact Assessment (Health Sciences)

Explore methods and tools for assessing your research impact, including citation tracking and altmetrics.

What are Alternative Metrics?

Alternative metrics (altmetrics) are public engagement indicators that measure interactions with publications in non-scholarly venues like blogs, tweets, article downloads, and shares.

Altmetrics can help researchers to tell a story about how people are engaging with their research outside of traditional academic paths such as citations and conferences. Altmetrics, such as mentions of research articles in YouTube videos, Wikipedia pages, tweets, or major news outlets, provide a qualitative complement to traditional quantitative measures like citation counts.

Highlighed Resource: Altmetric Explorer for Institutions

Altmetric Explorer for Institutions tracks attention around your research publications in social media, news, and policy resources.

Alternative Metrics for Research Impact: Getting Started with Altmetric Explorer

In this video, Tyler Nix gives a brief overview of altmetrics and demonstrates the resource Altmetric Explorer for Institutions.
This webinar was initially presented live via Zoom on May 29, 2020.