Research impact evidence

New knowledge, demonstrating the benefits emerging from adoption, adaption or use of new knowledge to inform further research, and/or understanding of what is effective.
National Health and Medical Research Council

A note on which outputs to include evidence from:

When looking for evidence of your impact, you may need to restrict the analysis to the publications that directly relate to the impact claimed/described in the case study, this will vary depending on your career stage - e.g. senior researchers may restrict their analysis to a subset of their publications whereas early career researchers may include their entire publication listing.

Make sure you have an ORCID that is up-to-date and linked to UQ - see ORCID iD and researcher identifiers for instructions.

Recognition of research publications

Are your publications performing well (in terms of citations)?

• See if you have any Highly Cited Papers - Highly Cited Papers are identified by Clarivate Analytics and are considered to be achieving a high standard of performance
• Find the relative citation impact (Category Normalized Citation Impact or Field Weighted Citation Impact) of your publications - the relative citation impact compares your paper(s) to similar publications in terms of age, discipline and document type
• See how many of your papers rank in the top 1% or 10% 

What is your standing as a researcher?

• Are you considered a Highly Cited Researcher (by Clarivate Analytics)
• Are you considered an influential researcher (i.e. in the top 1%) according to Essential Science Indicators (ESI) - if you have Highly Cited Papers, search for yourself in ESI

What is your contribution to your research area?

• Do you have any significant contribution to SciVal Topics

Who is citing your publications? Where are they from (in terms of location and discipline area? Why are they citing your work?

• Find and analyse publications citing your work
• Look at the organisations/institutions listed in author affiliations from papers citing your work - how many institutions are there, are there any hospitals or clinical centres?
• Look at the subject areas of publications citing your work - this may show its uptake beyond your immediate discipline
• See why other researchers are citing your work. Are they supporting, mentioning or contradicting your research?

Have you published in journals aimed at an audience beyond the scholarly community, such as the clinicians or practitioners or the general public?  Examples of this include:

• The Conversation - look for your readership analytics
• Publications issued by professional or accreditation bodies

Have you co-authored with any client or patient facing people (that may translate the research into practice)?

• Scrutinise your co-authorship network

What is the reach and influence of your publications (in terms of online attention)?
Who is mentioning your work, where are they from and what are they saying?

• Explore your altmetric attention

Data Sharing

Do you have datasets publicly available - either in general repositories or discipline specific respositories?

Have any of your datasets been cited - this may strengthen its validity and significance?

• Search for datasets that you have made visible to see if they have been cited