Part of the scholarly communication workshop series, "Sharing Your Research" for graduate students and early career researchers that I developed for Texas Woman's University Libraries.

1. Measuring Impact:
Impact Factor, h-index, and altmetrics
Chealsye Bowley, Scholarly Communication Librarian
Texas Woman’s University Libraries
CC-BY flickr user Thomas Shahan

2. About me
Chealsye Bowley
Scholarly Communication Librarian
- Education + training
- Copyright consultations
- Finding an OA journal
- Data management plans
Contact: cbowley@twu.edu
Office: Library 308A

3. CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org

4. “No, man, they got the metric system.”
● Impact Factor
● Citations / h-index
● Altmetrics
Slide inspired by Josh Bolick, KU Libraries; gif from Pulp Fiction

5. CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org

6. Impact Factor
● The average number of times an article in a
particular journal is cited
● Journal-level metric
● Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports

8. CC-BY flickr user arenamontanus
index

9. h-index
● aka H-index or Hirsch index
● Author-level metric
● Attempts to measure productivity + impact of
a scholar’s publications

10. CC-BY flickr user soham_plablo
Altmetrics

11. Chart CC-BY Micah Vandegrift

14. bit.ly/altmetricbookmarklet

16. Questions?

17. Upcoming Workshops
Research Data Management + Sharing 4/12

18. Further Info
Can’t attend a workshop? Got further questions?
Get in touch!
cbowley@twu.edu | @chealsye