Demonstrating the Impact of SoTL Research 

How do you know whether your research has had an impact? Metrics like Impact Factors for journals and citation counts for articles are two often-used ways to think about impact, but those metrics often miss the many ways SoTL work is distributed and put into practice. In this session, David X. Lemmons will share ideas and strategies for showcasing SoTL's research impact, pulling from their own research as well as their work as a librarian. Participants will leave with a better understanding of alternative citation metrics and ideas for moving beyond metrics in telling their SoTL story to a wide variety of audiences. 

David X. Lemmons

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Instruction Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty Member, George Mason University, Virginia, United States

David X. Lemmons is the Instruction Coordinator for George Mason University Libraries, where they specialize in teaching information literacy and research skills to first- and third-year undergraduate students. They are also a PhD candidate in Higher Education at George Mason University, and their dissertation examines how academic librarians develop and sustain teaching community through peer relationships, collaborative librarian–faculty partnerships in the classroom, and engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as a professional and scholarly community. In addition to their research, David has presented nationally and internationally on supporting academic librarians in learning to teach, instructional design for librarians, and ways to support PhD students engaging with SoTL.