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Scholarly Communication: Scholarly Impact

What is scholarly communication? This guide serves as an introduction to open access publishing as well as a guide to facilitate scholarly communication and collaboration.

Metrics

Article-level Metrics (PLoS)
Most researchers know about journal impact factors, but what do you know about new ways to measure the impact of your work in an open environment?

Peer-reviewing

Peer Review Week
Learn more about the value of peer-reviewing and becoming a peer reviewer yourself
Publons
Publons is a website and free service for academics to track, verify and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions across the world's academic journals. As of 2017, about 175,000 users participate. (per Wikipedia)

What is post-publication peer review?

Publons describes post-publication peer review as a mechanism to increase the transparency of research to the public by scoring on a scale of 1 to 10 the quality and significance of a published work.