Your Research Impact
Documenting the influence of your research and managing your scholarly presence are important aspects of your work. SMU Libraries offers consultation and instruction on citation analysis, scholarly metrics, open access, researcher profiles and identification, and more.
Measure Scholarly Impact
No single metric tells the full story of your research. Explore common measures of research impact and learn how to select the approaches that best fit your discipline, research outputs, and professional goals on our .
Researcher Identification
Creating a unique and persistent identifier ensures your research outputs are correctly attributed to you and improves discoverability. There are a few different tools to do this, including ORCID and ResearcherID. Learn more on the .
SMU is a member of the ORCID Consortium and we encourage all SMU faculty, staff, and students who publish to register for an ORCID ID.