Impactstory

The Impactstory icon represented the now-discontinued service that tracked diverse research impacts beyond traditional citations, measuring social media mentions, policy citations, and public engagement metrics. Though the service has concluded, this symbol historically signified the altmetrics movement recognizing research influence across multiple channels beyond academic journals.

During its operation, researchers cited Impactstory profiles to demonstrate broader research impact including mainstream media coverage and policy document citations. Universities explored altmetrics from Impactstory for promotion decisions to value public engagement, while funding agencies considered these diverse impact indicators when assessing the societal relevance of research grants and community-engaged scholarship.

From a research evaluation perspective, this icon signifies more than just metrics collection - it represented the pioneering effort to expand impact measurement beyond citations, challenged traditional research evaluation by valuing public engagement and policy influence, and demonstrated the need for comprehensive impact assessment recognizing diverse research contributions. This distinction helps users understand the historical importance of alternative metrics in research evaluation evolution.

Impactstory is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds ImpactstoryIcon to components/icons/academicons-impactstory.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed ImpactstoryIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Impactstory icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 512 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Impactstory", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ImpactstoryIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ImpactstoryIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

Its tags are research, measurement, metrics, legacy and impact. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Impactstory in another set.