Research Impact

The University of Alberta Library strongly endorses the principles outlined in the Statement on Research Impact: For Research and Innovation at the University of Alberta and in Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics. 

This means that our work:

• Encourages the consideration of both qualitative and quantitative assessments.
• Measures research impact against the values and the research missions of the institution, research group or researcher as appropriate.
• Pushes us to consider a broad range of impacts, not just those that can be measured.
• Appreciates and celebrates locally relevant research.
• Provides methodological descriptions and access to the data used in analysis.
• And takes the citation practices of different disciplines into account.

We highly recommend that before taking on any research assessment that the following documents be carefully considered:

To learn more about responsible metrics, try the Introduction to Research Impact tutorial.