2015 Academic Librarians' Familiarity With Research Impact Indicators At R1 Institutions

This data is from a national survey conducted during 2015, which was administered to 13,436 full-time academic librarians from 150 institutions included in the 2013 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) list of Carnegie-classified R1 institutions in the United States. Email addresses were collected manually in order to filter out certain positions not considered professional in nature and the survey was designed to eliminate responses from outside of the US, as well as part-time, retired, and other non-full-time respondents. The Qualtrics-administered survey was sent out three times over a two-week period in 2015, resulting in a 5.3% response rate (n=707, valid responses counted only). The survey's purpose was to assess the levels of familiarity, the levels of frequency for different types of uses, and the purposes of those uses of research impact metrics, usage data, and qualitative measures of research impact among academic librarians at R1 institutions in the U.S.