Advanced courses for researchers, postgraduates and the librarians who support them — researcher identity, research metrics, citation databases, and promoting research impact.

Start Here — The Research Impact Track

New to the Research Impact & Scholarly Communication track? Start here. This short orientation explains what the track offers, the recommended order of the five courses, and how to choose where to begin.

Building Your Researcher Identity

Take control of your scholarly identity. Learn to set up and connect an ORCID iD and other researcher identifiers, build strong academic profiles, solve the name-disambiguation problem, and make sure every output is correctly credited to you.

Understanding Research Metrics

Make sense of the numbers used to judge research — journal, article, author metrics and altmetrics — and learn to use them responsibly, knowing what each does and does not measure.

Citation Databases & Bibliometric Tools

Get to know the major citation databases — Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar — their coverage, strengths and limits, plus the core ideas of bibliometrics and the tools that apply them.

Enhancing & Promoting Your Research

Give your research the best chance to be read, used and cited: choose the right place to publish, make it open, share your data, promote it well, and track its reach.

Open Science & Responsible Research Assessment

Explore open science — open access, FAIR data, reproducibility and preprints — and the global movement to assess research more fairly than by metrics alone.