Research administrators need to identify promising researchers and future growth areas and recognize established research innovators. Journal article indexes measure past research accomplishments through citation and reference counts. This data is inadequate for identifying and ranking future high-impact research activities and programs. Research analytical tools built from literature databases can readily identify future high-impact activities, institutional peers and potential collaborators and recruits. Libraries can use collections data to assess and identify future collections priorities. Examples of how the libraries can implement and use these research analytical tools will be shown.Informal scholarship activities provide data on research impact. This includes the blogosphere, shared data sites, social networks, subject digital repositories, and popular media presence. Site metrics provide data on high-impact activities among peers and supplement research and library database tools. Examples of these activities and their impact will be shown.

Finding the future: Using research analytical tools with journal article databases and social media data to identify high-impact research leaders and programs

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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