Impact and Metrics: Library Tools and Services

Social Media and Academic Impact

Social Media tools undoubtedly have the ability to increase your research visibility and citing by other researchers, but the exact relationship is, of course, nebulous. Here are some tools related to social media and academic publications that may be helpful.

Connected Papers
Enter a typical paper and we'll build you a graph of similar papers in the field. Explore and build more graphs for interesting papers that you find - soon you'll have a real, visual understanding of the trends, popular works and dynamics of the field you're interested in. Uses X (formerly known as Twitter) data to find these relationships.
Expand Your Academic Impact with Social Media Best Practices
The abstract for this 2020 article from Matter states, "Integrating social media into your daily academic activities will connect you with a broader network of researchers, diversify your sources of knowledge, and expand your influence, provided you implement best practices in online communication."

Articles, Links, and Other Selected Resources on Social Media and Academic Impact

Role of social media in research publicity and visibility: From Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health, 2023, Pages 217-230. Interesting summary on the use of social media in promoting academic works.

The Impact of Social Media in Research Publicity and Visibility: This study, from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, was published in the e-journal Library Philosophy and Practice.

10 ways to use social media to get your research noticed: This article, from the Times Higher Education (THE), goes over various experts and their advice on using social media for visibility and impact.

A Comparison of the Citing, Publishing, and Tweeting Activity of Scholars on Web of Science: Interesting chapter on this topic in the 2020 book, Evaluative Informetrics: The Art of Metrics-Based Research Assessment pp 261–285.

Social Media for Researchers: A guide from the RMIT Libraries, this page serves as a great example of the available resources on this topic, with some links to many of the tools.