ICML 2009: Continuing Education: How do we measure research impact?

Presenter/s: Ms Nicola Foxlee, Ms Sue Curlewis and Dr Amberyn Thomas

Biography:

Nicola graduated from the University of Western Ontario, Canada with a Masters in Library and Information Science. She has worked in a number of libraries including; the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, the Royal College of Nursing Library, UK, the Fiji School of Medicine Library, and the University of Queensland Library. Nicola is currently the Manager of the Joint PAH/UQ Library, a branch of the University of Queensland Library. She is also undertaking a postgraduate degree in public health.

Sue Curlewis is a Liaison librarian in the Biological Sciences Library at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Dr Amberyn Thomas is the Research Infrastructure Manager at the University of Queensland Library. This involves a wide range of activities, including working with the manager of the University of Queensland eSpace service to support the upcoming ERA project.

Session: Research output and citation counts are valuable sources of data being used to measure researcher impact. Impact has become part of the equation used to justify tenure and funding decisions. Citation analysis has for many years been the domain of ISI Web of Knowledge databases, but with changes in scholarly communication new databases and tools are now being used to generate and analyse this data. All have merits. This CPD activity will provide hands-on access and/or demonstrate a number of tools useful in the biomedical sciences. Strengths and weaknesses will be discussed.