Prestige, Impact, and Discovery
Help others locate your work with discovery support. When your research is found and cited, your impact measures will rise. Analyze your citation metrics to discern your prestige.
Steps are listed according to the Research Lifecycle.
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Citation Metrics
Citation metrics provide quantitative data used to evaluate the impact of a scholar’s research. Metrics also assist scholars with identifying key journals and notable researchers in their field. Several methods of collecting impact data are often used when conducting a comprehensive analysis of a scholar’s work.
Services and tools:
- Faculty and students can schedule an appointment with a subject librarian for help with a citation search (to see how many times your articles have been cited by others).
- See article citation counts and journal metrics on Google Scholar and Web of Science.
- Search through journal citation reports and impact factor rankings.
Research Guide: Citation Analysis Tools
Alternative Metrics
In addition to traditional metrics, alternative methods or “altmetrics” analyze more factors such as usage metrics (the number of times an article has been downloaded or viewed), scoring systems that evaluate the importance of a journal using weighted rankings, and age weighted citation rates that take into account the age of the work compared to how many times it’s been cited. Please note that alternative metrics services are not funded by the UCF Libraries and there may be costs associated with some of the tools below.
Services and tools:
- View article-level metrics (ALMS).
- See Eigenfactor for journal ranking and pricing to help determine value.
- Use professional social networks to see viewing statistics from Academia.edu, ResearchGate, etc.
- Utilize Harzing’s Publish or Perish software that uses Google Scholar to collect and analyze citations and other factors.
Research Guide: Citation Analysis Tools
Discovery Support
There are many ways researchers and authors can promote discovery of their papers and datasets. Authors can increase the impact of their article by writing an optimized abstract, providing functional links to the full text, and posting about the paper to forums and social networks.
Services and tools:
- Add functional links to promote your articles.
- Promote your research on social media and professional networks.
- Review tips from publishers about promoting your articles.
- Promote your Hispanic/Minority Serving Institutions (HSI/MSI) research on the UCF Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives LinkedIn page.
- Promote your Hispanic/Minority Serving Institution (HSI/MSI) research via the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (JHHE) and other journals offering special issues on HSIs/MSIs.
Research Guide: Scholarly Communication: Discovery Support
