Another way of examining research activity is to consider measures of esteem. These measures may be used by producers of both traditional and non-traditional research outputs. Some examples include:
The practice of acknowledging the work of others in research articles is well established. Acknowledgements reveal the important contributions of collaborators beyond the authorship of the article. Acknowledgements can be given for any expertise that was fundamental to the final research output, but not sufficient to claim co-authorship of the research. For example, specialised lab-based work performed by technicians as part of their job may result in an acknowledgement for an individual, and/or for a laboratory for use of their specially designed facilities.
Dimensions database offers an easy means of locating whether you have any acknowledgements in the published literature.
1. Click in the Dimensions Search box in order to see the Advanced search option. Select Advanced search.
2. Select Acknowledgements from the drop-down menu of searchable fields, and enter your own name, or the name of the entity that you wish to find acknowledgements for. (Tip: use double quotes to keep word order).
Article views, usage, downloads, and similar metrics for individual scholarly outputs, may be available from the respective publisher's website, an institutional repository, or a citation database. This is not a given, as it will depend on the publisher/platform whether they display this data.
To see an overall "views count" for your research, you can look at your researcher profile in the Overview module in SciVal database. SciVal will display the number of views for all of your publications indexed in Scopus, the number of outputs in top views percentiles, the average views per publication, and the average field-weighted-views-impact of your work.
Views, usage, downloads and similar metrics may also be available for non-traditional research outputs via social media or altmetric platforms. Again, the availability of this data can vary. For more information, see the Altmetric guide.