SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities · 91
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Taking Control of Your Research Visibility (worksheet/handouts)
http://openaccess.ku.edu/open-access-initiatives-university-kansas-ku
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http://scholar.google.com
What it does Tracks web-searchable references to your published works and citations to them as
well as calculates citation statistics, e.g., H-index (the number of articles H cited H
times).
You must have a Gmail
account:
To set up a Gmail account go to gmail.com and create an account.
Once logged into your Gmail account, proceed to http://scholar.google.com and
notice the option for “My citations” or an activation option. Click on that and follow
directions.
Confirm papers that are yours (or are not yours)
Username:
Password:
My ID and/or unique URL:
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http://www.academia.edu
What it does “Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The
company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Academics use
Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the
impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
3,853,925 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 1,633,496
papers and 818,149 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 5 million
unique visitors a month.”
Also gives nice alerts when your work is accessed from its site.
Username:
Password:
My ID and/or unique URL:
http://impactstory.org
What it does “Share the full story of your research impact. ImpactStory is your impact
profile on the web: we reveal the diverse impacts of your articles, datasets,
software, and more”. Provides additional ways of gathering information – for
example how many “readers” in Mendeley.
Choose the large “make my impact matter” button.
Notice you can supply your ORCiD and that you can import via your Google
Scholar citation page more of your references.
(Go back to Google Scholar and use drop-down menu to save your records in
the bibtex file format, which then you can upload to ImpactStory.)
Finish the registration process—note the new kinds of data being supplied.
Username:
Password:
My ID and/or unique URL: