There are often missed opportunities to ensure that all your research is correctly attributed to you, the researcher. This occurs though a variety of ways: publishing or presenting under various forms of your name, being confused with other researchers with the same, or similar name, changing your name, or having multiple family names. There are several ways to prevent this from happening, or to collate correctly all your publications if they are already scattered.
Impact metrics or Impact Factors, are a measure of the relative importance of a journal, individual article, or researcher to literature and research.