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Scrutiny of scholarly publications and research data has traditionally been undertaken through peer review and proprietary bibliometrics. But should article level metrics alone be used to evaluate the impact of research? Increasingly practitioners are turning to social networks such as blogs, Twitter and Mendeley to assess the scholarly impact of published works.

Total-Impact has been awarded $125k from the Sloan Foundation to expand its facilities for measuring the impact of research artefacts.

With research impact the Holy Grail for many researchers, the notion that one's work could be widely read and carefully saved yet be rarely cited is probably heartbreaking news.

The current system of measuring research impact, by traditional means like journal impact factors, may show how often a journal is cited, but says nothing about how its articles are really being used.

Total-Impact allows users to view the impact of a wide range of research output. Rather than relying on traditional measures such as citations alone,Total-Impact aggregates impact data from many sources and displays it in a single report.