Check your visibility in social media

You can supplement traditional impact measures, such as citation counts and h-index, by measuring your impact in social media to get a more nuanced picture of your visibility.

Unlike citation counts, which follow the natural publication flow, and thus often take time, measures based on social media are more immediate.

Altmetrics is a newly developed means of measuring impact based on data from social media, such as blogs, tweets, bookmarks and downloads.