Research Metrics Services

The University Libraries provides research metrics support to CMU students, researchers, and staff. Research metrics is the measurement of the impact of published research based on various metrics. Research metrics support includes analyses of your work's overall impact, analysis of your department's research impact, track your research work in social media, enhance the visibility of your research, and citation mapping. Additional information can be found in our Measuring Your Research Impact guide.

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How can the Libraries help?

Librarians involved in research impact analysis services can provide support in many ways. For example, we can:

• Provide guidance on which tool will best suit your analysis goals.
• Recommend resources and methods to perform Author level research analysis.
• Recommend resources and methods to perform article-level research analysis.
• Design and help in department-level research analysis.
• Provide guidance and training on how to use citation analysis tools.
• Assist in the use of subject specific citation databases.
• Assist in using journal-level metrics such as Journal Ranking, Journal Impact Factors, and Eigenfactor.
• Assist in the use of specific Journal Ranking Tools.
• Aid in understanding social and alternative metrics such as Altmetrics, Kudos.
• Offer guidance on performing comprehensive research metrics analysis.
• Offer strategy for research benchmarking analysis with other departments/institutes.