Impact and Metrics: Library Tools and Services

Step 1: Get Registered

Step 2: Before you Publish

  • Submit your research to a high impact journal 
  • Publish in an Openly Accessible journal
  • Gold Open Access
    • At the time of your article's acceptance, pay the publisher a fee to make it openly accessible. This fee may range from $2,000 to $5,000.  
    • In your grant applications, budget for these Open Access Fees or else contact the USF Faculty Senate Publications Council, they may subvent faculty journal or book publication charges once your manuscript is accepted
  • Green Open Access

Step 3: After You've Published

  • Add your Publication to DigitalCommons @ USF
  • Assign a DOI number to your data set
  • Add your data set to DigitalCommons @ USF
  • Track your Article Metrics
    • Citation and download counts, altmetrics, and more
  • Find your Book Reviews and Library Holdings

Step 4: As you Prepare for Promotion and Beyond

This is a general guide for librarians, faculty, and students to use to collect metrics information on their published and presented creative works.

  • Use our Research and Creative Metrics Template
    • This is a general guide for librarians, faculty, and students to use to collect metrics information on their published and presented creative works.
  • Map your International Prominence
    • Use your Researcher ID accounts and data, in addition to Digital Commons @ USF digital tools, to track the international scholars and institutions citing your work