Keeping track of where your publications are being used

As a researcher in a university, one of the key things you are asked to do is to keep track of whether your research has influence or impact.  There are lots of ways of doing this, but we thought it would be useful to highlight two of the ways of discovering how and why your publications have been used.

Altmetrics

The Altmetric service is available via the ILS webpages and you can also log in directly to their website using your usual YSJ details. Altmetric tracks mentions and references to individual pieces of research across news sites, social media, blogs and much more.  You can set up a personal account to track specific works if you wish.

Google metrics

If you have a Google account, you can set it up to monitor citations to any of your research it has picked up in its Google Scholar service.  Just go to Google Scholar and click on 'My Citations' option.

Your academic liaison librarian would be happy to go through these and other tracking options with you.