Join the 2025 Research Impact Challenge
What is the Research Impact Challenge?
The Research Impact Challenge is a library event that aims to get researchers thinking about ways to increase the impact of their scholarly work and to learn more about ways impact can be measured.
You’ll receive a series of five daily research impact challenges via email. Each daily challenge will offer quick, easy, impactful activities you can complete independently. These daily tasks are designed to help you learn about specific actions and practices you can adopt as a researcher to boost the reach of your work. Tasks will take 5-10 minutes to complete, with more information to dive deeper if you like. We will also host workshops throughout the week related to the challenge tasks.
When is it?
Daily, from Monday, September 8, to Friday, September 12, with the weekend to wrap up! We will select the challenge winners on Tuesday, September 16.
Where is it?
All the challenges are online and can be completed at any time throughout the week.
Why Participate?
By the end of the week, you’ll know how to:
- Efficiently keep track of your online scholarly presence
- Learn how to measure the impact of your work using a variety of metrics
- Increase the impact of your research within your field of study
This year, five winners will be chosen at random. Each additional day you participate in the Research Impact Challenge will count as an extra entry into the raffle. Each winner will:
- Be featured in a library blog post, which will be highlighted on the library homepage, included in the library newsletter, and shared via social media.
- Have the chance to showcase their scholarly work on the library’s digital signage.
- Receive a Lane Medical Library swag bag filled with Research Impact-related swag.
Challenge accepted? Sign up to participate!
Any questions?
Please reach out to Daniel Eller (deller@stanford.edu), Research Communication Librarian, with any questions about the challenge.
