Open scholarship: Research impact and visibility
Open scholarship practices can help you to increase your research impact and visibility.
Related guides and services include:
Strategies for increasing impact
Understand the limits of journal-based metrics while learning about bibliometrics and research impact broadly as well as strategies for increasing your impact.
Pathways to impact
Concordia University Library is a core partner with Pathways to Impact, which will soon offer a coordinated set of consultations, workshops, learning resources, and practical tools to support researchers who want to plan, strengthen, evidence, and communicate impact.
ORCID
ORCID is a free, unique, digital research identifier used to associate your work with you. Unlike other research identifiers, ORCID is open source, open access, and non-profit. It also easily links to other IDs and their metrics.
Open at Concordia guide includes:
Enhance your research visibility
Learn strategies such as sketching your knowledge mobilization plan, making your research and appropriate datasets open, developing your researcher profile (such as with ORCID), and reaching your readerships.
Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
Concordia University has signed DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, to improve how it assesses research. Let us move beyond assessment practices that privilege the journal impact factor above all else.
See also
Strategizing how to enhance your impact and visibility can also benefit from knowing more about open access publishing, research data management, Copyright (including author rights and open use), and our institutional repository, Spectrum.