CUD Learning Resource Centre: Measuring your research impact: Alternative Metrics

Alternative Metrics

Alternative metrics assess research impact through non-traditional forms of scholarly communication, such as online engagement. Common metrics include views, downloads, shares, recommendations, and comments.

The links provided offer tools for sharing your work and connecting with potential collaborators.

Alternative Impact Metrics Tools

almetric.com
Provides researchers with a collated record of all online shares and mentions of their research. Also provides researchers with ability to read all comments related to their research. Known for their "doughnut" with a score, Altmetric.com widgets appears on the CUD LRC Summon One Search Platform. Some Altmetric.com data is available for free.
Dimensions
Provides Altmetrics Badge, Twitter Mentions, Citation Information, RCR Mean and FCR Mean. In addition also lists and research grants associated with a publication.
Plum Analytics
Provides Usage, Captures (Exports / Readers), Mentions, Social Media (Likes / Shares) and Citation Data.
Our Research
Our Research provides open source tools to support scholarly research.

Alternative Forms of Scholarly Publishing

Figshare
A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
Slide Share
A free online tool for uploading and sharing slide presentations.
Twitter
Twitter can be used to share links and short messages with a large online community. Twitter is increasingly being used as a communication tool within research communities and as a tool to connect with potential collaborators at professional conferences and meetings.
Vimeo
Vimeo is a free online service for sharing and uploading video content.
Wordpress
Open source WordPress is a free, easy-to-use web-based software for online publishing platform.

Research Community

Academia
Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for free.
Linkedin
Linkedin is the world's largest professional network connecting to make them more productive and successful.
Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research
Research Gate
ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers to share, discover, and discuss research.