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Altmetrics
Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments. As scholarship increasingly moves online, these metrics track associated interactions and activity to generate fine-grained data, allowing researchers and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture of the reach and impact of academic research. Source: Altmetrics, PLOS Collections
Scholarly Identity
How to use ORCID and Google Scholar Profiles

Publication Evaluation Rubric

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Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Includes predatory reports and covers metrics, manuscript requirements, and review procedures for scholarly journals in the fields of business, computer science, education, health administration, mathematic, natural sciences, nursing, and psychology & psychiatry. Includes contact information for each journal included in the database.
Ulrichsweb: Global Serials Directory
The complete Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory including Katz's Magazines for Libraries reviews. Bibliographic and ordering information for more than 300,000 serials (periodicals, annuals, irregulars, and newspapers) published worldwide. Detailed information on periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more in over 900 subject areas. Records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

SCImago
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996. SCImago is an alternative to the Journal Citation Report (JCR).

Harzing's Publish or Perish

This software is available in the Software Center on university equipment or can be downloaded for free to a personal device.

"Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-index." From the Publish or Perish website.

Example of Promotion Entry with Impact Evidence Added

The following is just one example. Evidence of impact can look different and contain different criteria depending on the discipline. Please see your department for more targeted advice.

* McGowan, B. S., Cantwell, L. P., Conklin, J. L., Raszewski, R., Wolf, J. P., Slebodnik, M., McCarthy, S., & Johnson, S. (2020). Evaluating Nursing Faculty's Approach to Information Literacy Instruction: A Multi-institutional Study. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 108(3), 378–388. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.841

H index 57 SJR .894 Quartile 1 for Library and Information Science, Health Informatics, and Medicine (miscellaneous). See appendix for Scimago journal report.
Indexed by Web of Science, LISA, Medline, and others. These are very well-respected indexes and inclusion is an indication of a journal’s reputation and reach. See appendix for Ulrich's Web journal report.

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Example of Promotion Entry with Impact Evidence Added