Library guides: Publishing strategy guide: Tell your impact story

Your journal article is published in a peer reviewed journal. You and your collaborator from another university share the DOI to your followers on social media platforms.

You write for The Conversation and make sure to include links to the original article.

Using the Engagement and Impact Module in ROS you record this activity, and add to it if any more publicity comes out of The Conversation article such as an invitation to speak at a public event.

All of this is important to telling the story of your research and shows that research has impact outside of accruing citations.

A lot of people try to measure this after the fact – but it has to be an ongoing process to effectively measure and track impact and engagement.

Publishing strategy guide

Tell your impact story

Example impact scenario