Research impact information can assist individuals and institutions in activities such as quantifying return on research investment, making a case for promotion and tenure, and managing scholarly reputation. The Library supports the University’s efforts to integrate, manage, and enable reuse of research information; expert advice and guidance are provided to help Lingnan researchers demonstrate their research impact.

Library Research Impact services includes:

• Understanding Research Impact Guides
  Find out information for measuring and monitoring impact of research using metrics such as citation counts, journal, book and researcher impact, h-indexes. Follow the guides and compile your own metrics.
• Research Impact Service
  Lingnan University strives to conduct impactful research with CARE. The library captures metric data at institutional level with key research impacts in numbers and recent scholarly outputs by Lingnan Researchers.
   
• Library Analytics Dashboards
  A collection of interactive dashboards designed to help you explore and understand research impact at various levels.
   
• United Nations SDGs Research Impact
  Sustainability impact is an emerging aspect of measuring research impact, where research contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a key indicator. To support this, the Library has developed an SDG Information Guide, an SDG Mapping Tool, and a summary of Lingnan’s SDG Contributions.