Scholarly identity
As researchers, we constantly try to enhance our scholarly impact and expertise. Managing
your online scholarly profile makes your expertise more discoverable, shares your
research with broad audiences, and allows you to connect with other scholars for collaborative
projects. UW digital initiatives supports digital scholarship and can help to create
more visibility for your work and your scholarly identity.
ORCID iD is the recommended scholarly profile service for University of Wyoming faculty
and students and can be easily integrated with other researcher profile services such
as Researcher ID (Publons), SciENcv/BioSketch, and Scopus ID. It is commonly required
for federal grant funding, such as funding from the NIH. It can also be used to populate
your WyoFolio/WyoVita. More information about ORCID and how to set up your profile
can be found on our ORCID guide.
Research and impact metrics
The impact of your scholarship can be measured in a variety of ways including citation
metrics, your h-index, and altmetrics. Constructing a narrative around the impact of your work is
often an important part of tenure and promotion review, grant proposals, and other
academic opportunities. Understanding these metrics, and how to track these metrics
over time, will allow you to leverage your work and capitalize on scholarship opportunities.
Below is a brief summary of some of the most common impact metrics. For more information
on how to track and boost your impact metrics, schedule a consultation with the Digital
Scholarship Librarian.
Research Impact Metrics
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Citation Metrics
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How often an article was cited in other articles, books, or other sources. Citation
rates are heavily dependent on the discipline and the number of people working in
that area.
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h-index
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The definition of the index is that a scholar with an index of h has published h papers, each of which has been cited in other papers at least h Thus, the h-index reflects both the number of publications and the number of citations per publication.
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Altmetrics
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Alt-metrics (aka, alternative metrics) are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary
to traditional, citation-based metrics, such as impact factor and h-index. They can include (but are not limited to) citations on Wikipedia and in public
policy documents, discussions on research blogs, mainstream media coverage, bookmarks
on reference managers like Mendeley, and mentions on social networks such as Twitter.
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Copyright and fair use
While Librarians cannot provide legal advice regarding copyright compliance, we can
provide tools to assist with interpreting guidelines and documenting ownership and/or
compliance with copyright regulations. Whether you are a student undertaking a text
mining project or faculty member who wants to show a movie in class, you should familiarize
yourself with the legal implications of using copyrighted materials.
Copyright protects a wide range of materials such as books, articles, photographs,
paintings, music, sound recordings, websites, emails; copyright can apply to any original
work of authorship that is fixed in any tangible means of expression. Works are automatically
protected, no copyright notice is required. Copyright law provides some exceptions
to the rights of copyright owners. “Fair Use” is one such exception, but does not
apply to all educational uses of copyrighted materials. The library is able to consult
with members of the University of Wyoming community on issues related to copyright,
just “Ask A Librarian”.
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