STEMskiller: Skill Set Map for Mentors of Early Career Researchers

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP: Academic/scholarly publishing

Visibility and research impact

Definition:

Academic institutions use various metrics to evaluate research performance. These metrics are also used when evaluating researchers for awards, grants, and other funding possibilities. Mentors should make early career researchers aware that the development of this "research portfolio" of results through time is critically important for long-term academic career development, though aspects of the research impact process and the form of required visibility itself are at times disputed and may change over time. 

Useful resources on Visibility and research impact:

PhD On Track. (n.d.). Citation impact. https://www.phdontrack.net/share-and-publish/citation-impact/

Describes limitations of current assessment metrics while defining journal ranking, h-index, and other aspects of research impact assessment.

Tags: IPS WC; CompQ; CompTS; CompGS

Peer Review: None

Table of contents:

1.3. Academic/scholarly publishing

1.3.1. History and overview of scientific publishing
1.3.2. Publishing academic papers
1.3.3. Open access publishing: what is scholarly publishing, history of open access movement, importance
1.3.4. Predatory journals (who can be trusted)
1.3.5. Peer reviewing

Author: Stephanie Krueger

Peer Reviewer(s): None

Last Updated: october 26, 2021