Table 2.

Summary of metrics used to demonstrate digital scholarship impact, role and quality, with a sample scholarly work.

Promotion metric	Supporting data	Example with metrics
Impact Demonstration of impact shows your work reaches your intended audience	Pageviews Time Spent on Page Likes Impressions Dissemination (Shares) Unique Users Geographic Reach Followers on Professional Social Media Accounts Social Media Index Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Alexa Ranking Altmetrics	Thoma B, Chan T, Benitez J, Lin M. Educational Scholarship in the Digital Age: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Scholarly Products. The Winnower. 2014. doi:10.15200/winn.141827.77297 Pageviews 4137 Altmetric Score 61 202 tweets from 86 users, with an upper bound of 263,362 followers
Role Demonstration of your “brand” or role within digital scholarship helps establish your area of expertise	Editor Author Curator Reviewer Invited Commentaries Podcast Guest or Editor	[Invited Commentary] Berg A, Weston V, Gisondi MA. Journal Club: Coronary CT Angiography Versus Traditional Care. NUEM Blog. http://www.nuemblog.com/blog/cta-for-chest-pain/ Published online 4/12/16.
Quality While also demonstrating commitment to scientific rigor in your work, you may also highlight novel quality assurance methods unique to digital scholarship.	METRIQ-5 and -8, rMETRIQ ALiEM AIR Score SAEM Online Academic Resources (SOAR) Social Media Index (SMi) The Quality Checklists for Health Professions Blogs and Podcasts	[Peer-reviewed blog] Long, B. “Myths in Heart Failure: Part I - ED Evaluation” emDOCs.net http://www.emdocs.net/myths-in-heart-failure-part-i-ed-evaluation/ published online 7/23/2018. Selected as ALIEM AIR Cardiovascular, Non-ACS module 2019.39 This post was deemed to be of an acceptable score within the ALiEM AIR Scoring tool, and was granted the designation “AIR Approved” by the adjudicating group of educators. There is a second tier below, known as “honorable mention” for posts of moderate quality that did not meet the threshold for inclusion.

ALiEM, Academic Life in Emergency Medicine; AIR, approved instructional resources; SAEM, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine