Publish or perish, right? Our publications often serve as the “currency” of health sciences researchers. Scholarship allows us to share our findings and disseminate them to a community of scholars and even the general public.
Once we’ve published, how do we determine the impact of these publications? There are indicators like the Impact Factor (meant for journals, not articles), but what else is available for individuals or departments seeking to assess the range and influence of their work?
Research and Data Services - Here for You
The Health Sciences Library’s Publication Impact Services team provides expert consultations to Health System and SON faculty, departments, and groups on measuring your scholarship. Our Research and Data Services librarians and staff have expertise on bibliometrics, citation analysis tools, and other techniques to report on and visualize your work.
Our services include expert guidance on:
- citation analysis: extracting and analyzing information about the citation patterns of your publications
- demonstrating impact of published works for promotion and tenure, or when applying for funding
- measuring or tracking publications
- maintaining an impactful online identity
- communicating research impact to audiences
How Can We Help?
Individuals
- Going up for promotion and tenure? Let us prepare a Citation Analysis Report of Times Cited, Impact Factors, Journal Categories, and Rank data for your citations
- Strengthening a research grant application and promoting your work? – let us check your publications for “hot” and “highly cited” papers
- Assessing the influence of your work in the biomedical field? Calculate the Relative Citation Ratio (NIH) for your articles
Departments
- Need a list of your department's publications for annual reporting? Let us help you collect and format citations
- We can assist with highlighting and visualizing inter- or intra-departmental collaborations
- Let us help recognize your faculty by identifying and showcasing high-impact publications
- Have us report on attention to your work by the media and general public via “altmetrics”
Contact Us!
Our services are free to Health System affiliates. Want to learn more or request a customized report? See our Publication Impact Services site, or email Research and Data Services at hsl-rdas@virginia.edu.
Andrea Denton, Manager, and Arian Abdulla, Biomedical Science Librarian
Research & Data Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library