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How to measure and increase your research impact: Scholarly Communications

This libguide is to know how to increase your impact and how to measure your research impact

Researchers Networking Media

Scholarly communication is the â€‹process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond.

Traditionally scholarly communication has occurred in the formal literature - in journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and books. However as the image below demonstrates, the landscape is changing dramatically.

These pages are designed to help researchers, librarians, administrators and other interested people find out more about this dynamic and interesting area.

Academia.edu

Online platform allowing researchers to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.

LinkedIn

 

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.

ResearchGate

Another large social networking platform facilitates sharing research and connecting researchers around the world

ScientistsDB

Provides bios and a photos of researchers from all fields and helps connect scientists for collaboration.

VIVO