Research Impact at Purdue

Defining Research Impact: the ways your research can be shown or demonstrated to have an impact on others in academia, the economy, or society at large.

• Academic Impact = the contributions you have made through your work to other scholars image of the academic landscape. In other words its all of the ways in which your work is used by other academics.
• Economic Impact = investments made from your works contribution to the expansion of academic horizons.
• Societal Impact = the benefits to society either at the local, national, or international level which effects policies or effectivness of policy resulting in real word benefits for individuals.

Why is Academic Identity Important?

• Your online presence can help to establish your voice and highlight your academic expertise, thus increasing your visibility to the wider academic community. This can help you to find collaborators and readers, or expand the reach of your research, and can even help find you a job.
• Managing an ORCID account can help to ensure that you get accurate credit for your work, and will help to ensure that the bibliometrics people see on your profile are accurate.
• This research guide will help you to manage, and track your author identifiers on a number of different platforms such as Scopus, Mendeley, and Web of Science.

Need more help? If you're a Purdue faculty member, student, or staff member conducting research schedule a consultation meeting with the Purdue Research Impact Librarian, Kevin Wiggins by emailing him at kpwiggin@purdue.edu.