This web-based guide will help researchers, authors, and students to track and measure the impact of research, whether your own or that of your department/institution. The guide also describes resources that allow you to find the impact of a journal and an article to establish the seminal work or a landmark study or select the best journal to publish your work. The guide includes video recordings of workshops on calculating and enhancing the impact of research.
Type of Material:
Tutorial
Recommended Uses:
Individual, homework, reference
Technical Requirements:
Website, browser. Tested in Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Students will be able to measure and track the impact of their research.
Students will learn how to locate the impact of a journal and an article.
Students will be able to identify institution impact measures.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Faculty, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
The guide would be most useful to those who have produced scholarship or have some knowledge of publishing. Basic knowledge of research would help the audience understand the article and journal levels.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The information in the guide is current/relevant. It also provides citations and links to further research on the topic.
The guide could be used by anyone for reference or part of an assignment.
This resource is very thorough, well documented, and professional.
Concerns:
There is inconsistency in how much information is provided for each topic. Some topics are covered more in-depth than others. Making the information more concise would make it easier to use.
Organization of the content could be improved. The content also includes redundancy. See the Terminology page where terms are repeated.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The top of the guide states its learning objectives.
The guide could easily be assigned as a reading or reference in a curriculum.
The resource is very thorough in its coverage.
Note: This is not an instructional guide or a lesson, so concepts are introduced by category and types of impact.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Overall, the LibGuides is not a difficult platform for users to navigate. The topics on the left-hand side navigation that makes it easy to browse the topics.
Creative Commons:
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