Managing & Maximizing Your Scholarly Impact
Channel: Office of Scholarly Communication Services
Date: 2020-10-20

This is a recording of a workshop aimed at graduate students and early career researchers to provide practical strategies and tips for promoting scholarship, increasing citations, and monitoring success. It explores how to understand metrics, use scholarly networking tools, evaluate journals and publishing options, and take advantage of funding opportunities for Open Access scholarship.

It was delivered over Zoom on 20 October 2020.

00:00 Introduction
02:51 Workshop overview
03:43 Exercise 1
6:26 Why care about impact?
8:29 What impact can and can't show
11:40 Author-level metrics
14:16 Journal-level metrics
16:17 Article-level metrics
18:06 Metrics for data, code, software
19:35 Altmetrics
23:25 Exercise 2
25:12 Managing your impact
27:01 Make a publishing and dissemination plan
28:47 Scholarly profiles
35:38 Open access
45:32 Think beyond the article
48:43 Careful promotion
53:11 Evaluate your progress
54:32 Things you can do right now
54:59 Make a plan for the longer-term