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Research impact for Education: a self-help guide

Researchers within Faculty of Education predominantly publish

  • Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
  • Book Chapters
  • Conference Papers
  • Public Sector, Industry and other Reports

In some cases education researchers produce some Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTRO's), e.g. Research Datasets, Original Creative Works, and Recorded/ Rendered Creative Works.

Research datasets


Research datasets consists of the data generated, collected, or used, during research projects. It must be in an accepted data repository with the data itself managed in an approved secure storage location and be allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Some suitable hosting platforms:

Types of data to capture:

Figshare
  • Number of views
  • Number of downloads
  • Number of citations
  • Reports with content usage
Zenodo
  • Number of views
  • Number of downloads
  • Most viewed
OSF Data Repository
  • Download counts
  • Number of links to project
  • Number of Forks
  • Number of unique visits
  • Popular pages
Research Data Australia
  • Number of views
  • Times accessed
Dryad
  • Number of views
  • Number of downloads
  • Number of citations
Additional data sources
  • Dimensions
  • Altmetric explorer
  • Clarivate Data Citation Index

 

Original creative works


These outputs includes Visual Art Works, Design and Architectural Works and Textual works.

Types of data to capture

Publisher website

Galleries/Gallery website

Google Scholar

Catalogues

Altmetric Explorer

  • Sales data
  • Royalties
  • Number of downloads
  • Number of views
  • Ticket sales
  • Ratings
  • Reviews
  • Social Media mentions
  • Interviews
  • Awards
  • Prestige of venues
  • Esteem of performers

 

Recorded/ Rendered creative works


These outputs includes Audio/Visual recordings, performances, inter-arts, digital creative works and web-based exhibitions.

Types of data to capture:

YouTube

Vimeo

Altmetric Explorer

Instagram

TED Talks

Audacity

GIMP

Melbourne Figshare

  • Number of views
  • Number of likes
  • Comments
  • Total citations