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Measuring Academic Output

Scholarly Metrics

There are a number of metrics
(bibliometrics) you need to use as a researcher, such as publication
counts, citation counts, h-index and journal impact factors. Use metrics
to choose high quality authors and publications for your research and
to identify high impact researchers for collaboration.

Your Research- Overall Recommendations

You can do several things to find out when and by whom your publication is cited:

Create a profile in Google Scholar Citations and get citation alerts
Sign up on social networking sites, list your publications there
and track how often they have been viewed and who is following you.
Use alternative metrics (Altmetrics) to track the impact of your
research. Downloads, tweets, likes or mentions are indicators on how
often you publication has been discussed. Create an account with
ImpactStory or install the altmetrics.com bookmarklet

Improve Your Impact

The number of publications in any field increases enormously every
year. It becomes more and more difficult for a researcher to keep track
of recent publications even in relatively well defined disciplines. That
means that it becomes more important to make a publication more visible
so it won’t be overlooked.
A few easy to do and easily applied steps can raise the visibility of your publication:
Always use the same name version consistently throughout your
career, e.g. “John J. O’Sullivan”, NOT “J. J. O’Sullivan”, “John
O’Sullivan”, “John James O’Sullivan”
Use a standardised institutional affiliation and address
Publish in journals with high impact factor
Collaborate with researchers in other institutions
Deposit your publication (final draft or published paper -
depending on copyright policy of publisher) in the Research Repository
UCD. This has the added advantage of being able to automatically
populate your School’s publications listing via RSS
Take advantage of SEO (search engine optimisation) by carefully selecting title and keywords for your publication
Register for an ORCID and/or Researcher ID in order to be more easily found in databases
Present preliminary research findings at meetings and conferences
Join academic social networking sites, e.g. Academia.edu, ResearchGate, LinkedIn
Use social bookmarking with Mendeley, Zotero or CiteULike
Start a blog devoted to your research project
Consider communicating information about your research via Twitter