Symposium

Cross-Cutting

Health Services Research

Measuring the Impact of Rehabilitation Research (848487)

Presenter(s)

• 

  James E. Graham, PhD, DC

  Professor, Director of Center for Community Partnerships
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, Colorado

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  Glenn Collins, BS

  Managing Editor
  Origin Editorial
  San Diego, California

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  Anne Deutsch, RN, PhD, CRRN

  Clinical Research Scientist
  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
  Naperville, Illinois

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

This symposium will discuss the benefits and limitations of traditional citation-based metrics and emerging alternative metrics (“altmetrics”) in measuring research impact. Citation-based metrics reflect scholarly impact, whereas altmetrics reflect broad public usage. We will highlight what the ACRM journals are doing in this domain. We will also provide preliminary results from a survey of ACRM investigators on documenting their research impact. We will conclude with a question-and-answer session on what individuals can do to better document their impact and how the ACRM as a whole could better demonstrate the impact that its members are having on the medical rehabilitation landscape.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe differences between traditional citation-based metrics and newer alternative metrics.
• Obtain and document more metrics from their published works.
• Articulate next steps in improving the way we document rehabilitation research impact.