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ADVICE AND GUIDANCE ON INCREASING YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT

UWS Library provides advice, guidance and tools to help increase the visibility of the University’s research and researchers and help you to:

create an online presence
keep up-to-date
understand where to publish
measure the impact of your research

Creating a profile

The 30-Day Impact Challenge

KUDOS - explain your research in plain language

ORCID explained

Choosing the Right Journal

Choose the right journal for your research with Think-Check-Submit

Journal Selector

SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)

Measuring Impact

Responsible debate on metrics

An Alternative view with Altmetrics

Download the Altmetric bookmarklet

Google Scholar Metrics

Tutorial

Measuring your Research Impact (MyRI)

Search Research System

PURE is the University's research information management system and provides a single source of research information for UWS. It is used to record and manage research activity with details of research outputs, funding applications, conference contributions, external impact and staff profiles.

Last updated: 15/08/2017