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Demonstrate Your Research Impact

This guide provides resources and services to assist the MSU community as it discusses the impact of their work.

Article Metrics: What do they mean and why are they important to researchers?

What are Metrics?

Publication metrics are quantitative measures of a scholarly work's reach, influence, and impact. Researchers and publishers have developed many different algorithms and measures to capture and communicate the importance of scholarly works. Metrics might be displayed differently in different databases. They could be as simple as citations to an article, or might include more information, including other measures of an article's impact. Some examples include: