Research Impact
As a researcher, being able to measure and demonstrate how your research impacts a field or discipline, as well as society, is an important part of the scholarly process. Measuring or tracking your research impact can:
- Help support your application for tenure or promotion
- Strengthen a research grant application
- Identify how your research is being used
- Connect you with potential collaborators
Measure the reach and impact of scholarly research at the article level.
Help track an individual researcher's impact in an academic discipline.
Measure the impact or importance of a journal in a field.
Metrics Toolkit
The Metrics Toolkit is a 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.