There are various ways and tools to measure the impact of your published research. 

• Qualitative criteria used to measure an article’s impact include peer review and funding/awards received by the article’s author.
• Quantitative measurement of research uses bibliometrics based on citation counts to measure the impact of publications. Journal Impact Factor, Scientific Journal Rankings and the H- or G-index are just some of the measures available.

No measurement is entirely comprehensive - all have to be adjusted to take other factors into account. For more information see: 

• MyRI – Measuring Your Research Impact
• Scopus (abstract and citation database)
• Journal Metrics for research analytics
• Publish or Perish for research analytics
• Altmetric for social impact (bookmarks, tweets, etc)
• Article Level Metrics impact measurement of research articles
• ImpactStory find out your scholarly impact
• PlumX Metrics - gathers appropriate research metrics for all types of scholarly research.

Avoid any potential confusion over authorship when publishing: 

• Always publish using the same name variant  - don’t alternate between using middle initials and/or shortened versions of your first name or between Irish and English versions of your name
• Create a Researcher ID for Web of Science( Web of Knowledge)
•  Register for an ORCID ID and link this to your Researcher ID so that your work is not assigned to anyone with a similar name by the Scopus author ID algorithm
• Always use the same institutional name variant, Dundalk Institute of Technology