Research Impact & Intelligence Services: Providing Expertise
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis
Recorded on 09/17/2025Posted in Scholarly Communication and Research
Learn more about how to apply bibliometrics skills to demonstrate research impact on your campus.
Access the presentation slides.
Webinar Resources:
- General DORA page
- Recent DORA handbook
- “Practicing responsible research assessment: Qualitative study of faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure assessments in the United States” (DORA member paper that is specific to the US context and research assessment)
Summary:
Libraries have long excelled at bibliometrics. As institutions adopted research management systems, librarians often participated in selecting and implementing these systems. Building on that success, universities have increased their focus on demonstrating impact in areas like promotion, tenure, research funding, and recruitment. Librarian expertise remains essential, especially as the understanding of impact becomes more complex.
In this webinar, panelists will share their perspectives on how they apply skills in bibliometrics and research management systems to reveal research impact on their campuses. Speakers will also discuss the responsible use of impact measurement and Project TARA initiatives.
Speakers:

Connie Stovall
Director for Research Impact & IntelligenceVirginia Tech UniversityConnie leads a team that works with campus stakeholders to turn information into insights. They use bibliometric, institutional, funding, and industry data from different sources and create visualizations to identify research strengths, understand collaboration networks and potential partnerships, and show impact. They also prepare background reports and benchmarking studies by collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing key readings and web materials.

Andrea Malone
Research Visibility & Impact CoordinatorUniversity of HoustonIn her role as the Research Visibility and Impact Coordinator, Andrea works with faculty and researchers to develop strategies for increasing the visibility of their research and gathers metrics to assist them with communicating the national and global impact of their research.
Andrea’s professional and research interests include scholarly metrics, international librarianship, mentoring, and Francophone studies. She’s actively involved in the American Library Association and the Modern Language Association

Kelly Cobey
Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa; Co-Chair of DORADr. Kelly Cobey is a scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, where she leads the Metaresearch and Open Science Program. She is also an associate professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Cobey has interests in topics including the implementation of open science, the reporting quality of research, data management and sharing best practices, research reproducibility, and patient engagement in research. She holds a number of national and international leadership positions in the academic research community, including acting as the co-chair of DORA (Declaration On Research Assessment).
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