Journal Impact The importance of particular academic journals can be measured by the number of times and where their articles are cited.
Article Impact The value of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books, can be measured by the number times they are cited by other works and by alternative metrics, measuring the number and type of social media mentions.
Researcher Profiles Common researcher names, name changes, cultural differences in name order, and inconsistent use of middle initials, can make it difficult to accurately calculate measures of personal impact. Numeric codes can help identify individual researchers.
Researcher Impact Researchers' success can be measured by the number of works they publish and the number of times their works are cited. Using citation databases and metrics to determine researcher impact:
Institutional impact The prestige of a department or area of research within an institution can be measured by the collective impact of its individual researchers compared to those at other institutions.
Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics) are metrics for social media mentions and uses of scholarly output. This data can be useful for monitoring your personal impact with other scholars, practitioners, policy makers and the public.
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