Intro
Welcome! This guide will walk you through three steps for enhancing your scholarly profile online: improve the discoverability of your scholarship by publishing for impact; promote your scholarship to key stakeholders; and measure the impact of your work.
Ready to dive in? Then accept our 3-Day Challenge to enhancing your scholarly profile!
This content was presented as a workshop to the Monroe Library Teaching & Learning Team on May 3, 2018. Slides from that workshop are available in Wolf-LOR, the learning objects repository.
License
Adapted under a CC-BY 4.0 license from the The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Raising the Profile of Your Research eBook published by Impactstory.org and authored by Stacy Konkiel, and the Duquesne University 5-Day Impact Challenge.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
What Qualifies As Scholarship?
| Article | Social media campaigns/events |
| Book chapters | Grant applications |
| Books | Grant reports |
| Whitepapers | Data sets |
| Grey literature | Interviews |
| Conference abstracts | Software |
| Conference slides | Code |
| Conference papers | Learning objects |
| Blog posts | AND MORE! |
Best Practices
Provide context
- Provide info on where you got your metrics from, and explain why that matters. For instance, instead of saying how many times your article has been views or downloaded, say the article is in the “Top 1% of articles for online impact”
Use appropriate metrics
- Don’t compare apples to oranges. For example, if you have one set of conference slides posted in a slide-sharing repository that only tells you views, and slides on another site that only tells you downloads, don’t conflate the two. For those of you who work with web analytics or electronic resource statistics, think about how you have to articulate what each metric means and compare like metrics in order to make decisions
Review every 3 months
- Don’t wait until the end of the year! Definitely review when you’re working on promotion/tenure applications and annual reviews, but also take a peek when it’s time for the Provost’s Report, submissions to the Board Book, grant applications, etc.
