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Research Impact Services

Our mission is to help you communicate the impact of your work in a variety of ways to tell your research story to peers, funders, policy makers, and the public.

The University of Alberta Library, Research Impact Team, has expertise in bibliometrics, data visualization, and alternative metrics. We provide extensive advisory services for researchers, groups, and departments on topics such as:

managing and tracking publications
maintaining an impactful online identity
measuring and assessing research impact by discipline
communicating research impact to audiences
and more...

Research Impact Tools

There are a number of metrics and tools available to help you analyze and share your research impact.

InCites
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Institutional benchmarking, collaborations, citations, and more. See
Clarivate Analytics Guide to InCites Benchmarking & Analytics: Learn the Basics for help with this tool.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
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Journal impact factors.
Scopus
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Journal impact factors, SNIP, citations, and more.
Web of Science - All Databases
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Citations, h-index, and more.

Microsoft Academic Semantic search engine with citation data
Dimensions Search engine with citation data and a variety of metrics.

Visualization Tools

Datawrapper	Create fast charts, maps, and graphs through this free web-based tool.
Gephi	Visualization and exploration software for all kind of graphs and networks.
Tableau Public	Interactive visualizations for developing your data story through graphs, charts, and maps.
VOSviewer	Ideal for analyzing bibliometric networks such as creating maps of publications, authors, or journals based on co-citation networks or keyword co-occurrence networks.