Manage Your Name – Researcher Profiles and Plum Analytics

Source: https://libguides.dbs.ie/research/visibility

Introduction

This guide outlines different measures and metrics for assessing research publication impact. The ability to assess the impact of your research publications is a growing area of importance with applications in career development and in securing research funding.

Manage Your Name – Researcher Profiles and Plum Analytics

Plum Analytics is the institution’s web-based system for capturing and reporting selected research output. It is an impact dashboard that provides evidence of how this output in all its forms is being utilised, interacted with, and talked about around the world through harvesting metrics from a multitude of online sources.

Be inspired! Take a look at the Researcher Profile for Dr. John Hyland, Research Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology in the DBS School of Arts.

Track Your Impact and Make Your Research Output More Visible

The Library can help you track citations of your published work and promote the results of your research:

• Utilise the Research Impact Tracking tool-box
• Seek support in the deposit of open access research outputs to maximise their visibility and use
• Let us showcase your research output on Plum Analytics
• Archive your work in the institutional repository, DBS eSource
• Easily gain access statistics on downloads and views of records in DBS eSource
• Create a personal persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you and your research output from every other researcher

Contact us for assistance.

Measuring Your Impact – Online Tutorial

The MyRI (Measuring your Research Impact) tutorial is aimed at post-graduate research students and academic staff across all disciplines. It introduces you to the main citation tools and metrics used to track research impact.

The tutorial consists of three modules:

1. Introduction to Bibliometrics
2. Track Your Research Impact
3. Journal Ranking and Analysis

Further Reading

A Guide to Ensuring Wide Dissemination and Lasting Impact for Your Research – The Atlantic Philanthropies [WWW Document], n.d. URL http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/research-reports/a-guide-to-ensuring-wide-dissemination-and-lasting-impact-for-your-research (accessed 7.7.16).