Research Impact Challenge

Because part of leading productive research activities is effectively conveying the significance of your work, The Office of Research adapted a successful University of Michigan program specifically for you as a WSU scholar/researcher. This Research Impact Challenge of four sessions contains 10 activities designed to help you better understand and manage your online scholarly/research presence and measure the success and impact of your work.

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Sessions 1 & 2: Your Online Scholarly Presence

Challenges 1–5 focus on your online scholarly presence: how can you ensure that you and your work are represented accurately and appropriately on the web?

• Session 1 (download slides)
  • Challenge 1: Register your ORCID and associate it with your WSU identity.
  • Challenge 2: Claim your Google Scholar profile.
  • Challenge 3: Preserve and share your work with a digital repository.
• Session 2 (download slides)
  • Challenge 4: Social media audit.
  • Challenge 5: Your personal webpage—pulling the pieces together.

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Sessions 3 & 4: Measuring the Success and Impact of your Work

Challenges 6–10 focus on the various ways to measure the success and impact of scholarly work, and strategies for situating yourself and your research in order to make a compelling case for your work.

• Session 3 (download slides)
  • Challenge 6: What I do, what’s important to me, and what “counts”.
  • Challenge 7: Finding appropriate metrics
• Session 4 (download slides)
  • Challenge 8: The h-index and other citation-based measures of impact.
  • Challenge 9: Alternative metrics
  • Challenge 10: Responsible metrics