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Visibility and impact indicators

Visibility and impact indicators

Activity addressed to UPC PDI and PhD students. For doctoral students, this activity belongs to the "Your doctoral thesis" training itinerary. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Sign your publications correctly
  • Recognize the main author identifiers (ORCID, etc.)
  • Get to know the UPCommons institutional repository and other thematic and data repositories, as well as Futur
  • Identify the role of social media and academic social networks in the visibility of research
  • Describe the main indicators of author and article impact
  • Characterize alternative metrics (altmetrics)


Contents:

1. Visibility of researchers
   1.1. Signature and institutional affiliation
   1.2. Author identifiers (ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID)
   1.3. Deposits and Futur.upc.edu
   1.4. Social media for research and academic social networks

2. Evaluation and impact of scientific activity
   2.1. Author and article impact indicators (citations received, h index)
   2.2. Alternative metrics: altmetrics (usage, downloads, visits, social networks)
   2.3. Assessment and accreditation



Price: Free for UPC members. Non-members, 25 eur/h.

Directed to: PhD, Teaching and research staff (PDI)

Keywords: Evaluation and impact of research, Your doctoral thesis

Next sessions:
Date Schedule Campus Location Language Capacity No vacancies
2025-03-12 12:00 - 14:00 h. Online training Coming soon Catalan/Spanish 40 No
2025-05-28 11:00 - 13:00 h. Online training Coming soon Catalan/Spanish 40 No
More information: 

The ICE will issue a certificate of attendance to the participants, provided they have previously registered through the established means (electronically through the web) and have been accepted.

The teaching and research staff of the UPC who participate in the activity, a few days after the end, will automatically have the information in DRAC.

For PhD students this course is recommended in an initial phase of making your thesis and it belongs to 'Your doctoral thesis' training path, made of the following courses:

  1. Get off on the right foot with your thesis: organising information
  2. Data management plan (DMP)
  3. Reference management softwares
  4. Scientific publication
  5. Visibility and impact indicators
  6. Elaboration of the thesis manuscript
  7. Open science
  8. DRAC for PhD students

This itinerary is complemented by two courses taught by the Doctoral School: