Who should attend
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 maximizing research impact, from individual researcher outputs to overall university strategy. We will show how to support researchers preparing publications, datasets, etc. to gain high visibility and impact, then show how institutions can analyse and publish this evidence at scale using Digital Science tools like Altmetric, Dimensions, 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’ll 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, Pre-Sales Solutions Specialist – Academic & Publisher
About Emily
In my role as Pre-Sales Solutions Specialist at Digital Science, I work with universities and publishers across North America to share information about how Figshare, Dimensions, and Altmetric help support the research ecosystem.
I have a strong understanding of academic libraries and research universities, and prior to Digital Science, worked in higher education for over 20 years as a STEM and Research Impact Librarian. In my previous role I led a team of librarians focused on developing research impact services, provided instruction and research support for students and faculty in STEM disciplines, co-managed a research information management system, and supported systems like ORCID and the implementation of a faculty activity reporting system. I’m passionate about improving the systems and tools we use for discovery and research impact, and enjoy working in the space where librarians, publishers, and researchers come together to make positive changes and advancements. I have a Master’s in Library and Information Science.
Shane Jackson, Pre-Sales Solutions Specialist – Academic & Publisher
About Shane
I work with universities, research institutions and publishers in EMEA, using my expertise in Dimensions and Altmetric to demonstrate how Digital Science products can solve research information problems.
I have a strong understanding of academic libraries and research universities, and prior to Digital Science, worked in higher education for over 20 years as a STEM and Research Impact Librarian. In my previous role I led a team of librarians focused on developing research impact services, provided instruction and research support for students and faculty in STEM disciplines, co-managed a research information management system, and supported systems like ORCID and the implementation of a faculty activity reporting system. I’m passionate about improving the systems and tools we use for discovery and research impact, and enjoy working in the space where librarians, publishers, and researchers come together to make positive changes and advancements. I have a Master’s in Library and Information Science.
