Who is this webinar for?
Research administrators, knowledge exchange and impact professionals, deans, department chairs, and library leaders interested in enhancing the visibility of institutional research and creative works and streamlining research impact tracking and reporting.
Overview
In this webinar, we outline a practical, institution-wide approach to maximising research impact, from individual researcher outputs to overall university strategy. We explore how to support researchers in preparing publications, datasets, and other outputs to achieve greater visibility and impact, and how institutions can analyse, track, and showcase this evidence at scale using Digital Science tools such as Altmetric, Dimensions, Symplectic and Figshare.
For research universities, understanding how to maximize the collective visibility and research impact of the institution can have lasting effects on areas such as:
- Institutional visibility and reputation
- Faculty advancement and recruitment
- Securing successful funding opportunities
What we cover:
- Processes, strategies, and tools for maximizing the visibility and impact of research across disciplines
- Use cases that leverage data to support impact storytelling beyond the use of traditional metrics
- Ensuring data availability and readiness for high-stakes reporting cycles and grant audits.
- Aligning university-led benchmarking and data initiatives with the senior research leadership priorities, institutional goals, and external frameworks (e.g. UN SDGs).
Digital Science tools for research impact
- Altmetric – Tracks attention across many sources to inform impact analysis. Includes AI tools that speed up the analysis
- Dimensions – Provides the traditional impact angle but works to connect published research to grants, datasets, patents, and policy documents providing richer datasets for impact reporting.
- Figshare – Publish non traditional research outputs and receive a trackable DOI. Use the integration with Altmetric to see individual output impact and use Altmetric reporting for institution level reporting.
- Elements – The Discovery module provides a searchable web interface for discovering university researchers and publications, along with a robust impact reporting module that enables reporting at the individual, group, and institution levels.
Presenters
Emily Hart & Shane Jackson, Pre-Sales Solutions Specialists – Academic & Publisher