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Research Impact & Bibliometrics

The McLeod Business Library offers the following services to faculty and administrators at both the School of Business and the broader William & Mary community. Please contact us at mcleodlibrary@wm.edu for assistance.

Researcher IDs & Digital Identity Management

  • Creating and populating Researcher IDs (i.e., ORCiD, ScopusID)
  • Clean and merge ScopusIDs to ensure research is correctly attributed to the researcher and the institution

Research Impact & Bibliometrics

  • Create weekly faculty publication alerts in Scopus
  • Gather citation data, analyze publication trends across disciplines
  • Retrieve and wrangle large publication sets from various indexes
  • Create custom publication sets for analysis in SciVal 
  • Benchmark units against peer, competitor, and aspirant institutions
  • Advise on alternative metrics and qualitative forms of research and scholarship assessment

Research Network Visualization

  • Visualize existing research networks
  • Identify opportunities to expand research collaboration both within and outside of William & Mary

Research Information Management Systems (RIMS)

  • Advise on best practices for bibliographic metadata creation and sharing across units
  • Assist faculty with syncing ORCiD, Scopus, and Faculty Success profiles

Administrative Reporting & Assessment

  • Provide Scopus data on publication patterns, citation impact, and collaboration networks for potential hires or retention
  • Advise administrators on SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation
  • Distribute bibliometric evidence of research productivity and impact for accreditation reporting
  • Gather and share impact statistics to strengthen proposals and demonstrate research capacity