DEMONSTRATING IMPACT OF YOUR RESEARCH Berenika Webster Coordinator

DEMONSTRATING IMPACT OF YOUR RESEARCH Berenika Webster, Coordinator of Strategic Assessment Lauren B. Collister, Scholarly Communications Librarian University Library System SSo. E VORP Lunch and Learn 2 November 2017 Slides: http: //d-scholarship. pitt. edu/33306

Outline • What is impact? • Impact within academy (publications, citations, awards, research grants) • Impact beyond 1 • Economic/innovation (patents, star ups and spinoffs, income generated) • Impact beyond 2 • Social and environmental impacts (policy, clinical, journalism, social networking)

What is impact: from an idea to better care and less illness Academic Social Environmental Economic After Lewison, 1999

Academic world • Input – research grant/your expertise/your lab • Outputs – publications • Impacts – citations • Outcomes – promotion, tenure, new grant, new collaboration, etc.

Impact within academy • Productivity • Publications • count, • prestige of outlet, • co-authorships, • inter-disciplinarity • Impact (citations) • count, • prestige of source, • institutional and geographic reach, • inter-disciplinary reach, • citations on patents

Patent citations

Story of one publication

Story of one publication My paper has been published in Cell, 2 nd ranked journal in the field of biochemistry and mol. biology and 3 rd title in the filed of cell biology (JCR, 2016 ed. ) To date it was cited 455 times, which places it in the top 1% of all world’s 2012 biochem. and mol. biology papers. The paper has an international and multidisciplinary reach. Citations come from authors from 34 different countries and from across 95 different journals in 35 different fields (including 7 citations from Nature and 6 from Science). (Wo. S, 20 Sept. 2017).

Story of one author • Bibliometric profile • Google Scholar profile • h-index • Citation index profile (Web of Science, Scopus; Sci. Val)

Increase Your Citation Count • Publish in the right journals (prestige; importance to the • • discipline; intended audiences) Publish in English Write review articles Engage in basic research Become a journal editor Acquire a co-author (preferably from US), aka. edu advantage) Get external funding (from different sources) Make and maintain professional/social contacts with others in your research area Manage your research outputs (6 -step approach) • Self-archiving workshop from Lauren

Beyond academic 1: from benchtop to economic impact • Patents, licenses, commercialisation income as proxies

Beyond academia 2 • Input – publication • Output – blog post, Kudos explanation, tweet • Impact – newspaper article about the publication • Outcome – policy/legislation change, economic/environmental/social improvement

• This post was later picked up by the government’s Youth Justice Board and included as further reading in its newsletter, YJB Bulletin. • It was subsequently read by Lord Mc. Nally, Chair of the YJB, who personally contacted Sean to arrange a meeting, commending his good work on a subject that had proved challenging for the YJB and inviting his further input. • Shortly afterwards, Sean met with Dusty Kennedy, Head of the YJB in Wales, who requested his input on the national participation strategy. Sean shared findings of his Ph. D research and provided detailed feedback to the Board. • He was subsequently cited in the final published strategy, invited to speak at the annual convention last November (and again at the forthcoming 2017 event). • Participated in wider YJB training programs. • “crucially, the LSE provided me with a platform to share my critical views on the topic and increase public understanding, [enabling] the building of a network of contacts and the influencing of policy, specifically through acting as a critical friend to the YJB for England Wales. ”

Ways to Increase Engagement (& Impact!) • Write a guest post about your work in a popular blog in your field. • Use social media to share your work and tag potentially interested colleagues / organizations. • Use the knowledge from the last Lunch and Learn. • Write an article for an outlet like The Conversation. • Lauren’s story of how one little article found its way to all kinds of outlets. • Use Kudos (http: //growkudos. com) to create summaries of your work.

17 Kudos is a first step to more engagement http: //www. growkudos. com

So you blog about your work or talk about it on social media. . . now what? Track your metrics via

What might you discover. . . ? Explore the record at http: //bit. ly/plumxwater

What might you discover. . . ? Explore the record at http: //bit. ly/plumxbench

How to track altmetrics • Create and refine your Plum. X profile • Login at http: //plu. mx/pitt with your Pitt credentials. • Follow our guide at http: //pitt. libguides. com/altmetrics/plumx • Useful for current Pitt faculty, staff, students. • Information is all public. • Sign up for Impact. Story • http: //www. impactstory. org - use ORCID to log in and connect publications. • Not tied to any one university – useful for anyone. • Look for the altmetric. com "donut" on publications. • Many publishers partner with Altmetric. com to show altmetrics data on individual publications.

Examples of Using Altmetrics • Summarize and quote metrics outlets: "Paper covered by more than 100 media outlets worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. Recommended on 12 research blogs, including being described as "a breakthrough study on examples" by prominent genetics and evolution researcher Rosie Redfield. " • See impact of non-paper output e. g. software, as seen in the example provided by Ahmed Moustafa at American University, Cairo: • As of August 2013, JAligner has been cited in more than 150 publications, including journal articles, books, and patents, covering a wide range of topics in biomedical and computational research areas and downloaded almost 20, 000 times. It is noteworthy enough to have its own Wikipedia entry (http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/JAligner)! • More at http: //pitt. libguides. com/altmetrics/usecases

Stay in touch! • Contact Berenika for: • Bibliometrics • Research Assessment • ORCID • bwebster@pitt. edu • Contact Lauren for: • Altmetrics • Open Access • Repository and archiving • Copyright • lbcollister@pitt. edu • Consultations: bit. ly/Talk. To. Lauren This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons – Attribution 4. 0 License.