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Publication metrics for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, Future Fellowship and DECRA grants

Find and use metrics to provide evidence of your track record and top papers when applying for an ARC Discovery Project, Future Fellowship or DECRA grant.

Example statements for publication and citing publication analysis via Scopus

  • My collaborators have affiliations with more than 82 Australian and international universities, research institutes and hospitals (Scopus, MMM YYYY).
  • My research demonstrates (extensive) international reach, being cited by xx documents across xx countries (Scopus, MMM YYYY). Note: This demonstrates global/international reach beyond countries with which you collaborate.
  • My work has been cited by a significant number of prestigious universities and research institutes, hospitals and medical schools worldwide such as (for example) Harvard Medical School; Imperial College London; etc. (Scopus, MMM YYYY). Note: You may like to highlight hospitals, industry partners etc. where relevant.

Find reach and influence of publications via Scopus

In Scopus you can analyse the citations to an individual publication or group of publications.

  1. Go to Scopus
  2. Click on Authors, enter the author details (you don't need an affiliation) and click Search
  3. Click your name to be presented with your profile including publications. If you have more than one profile, select each profile and click Show documents. Note: If your name appears more than once, you can request to merge authors. How to make corrections to your author profile tutorial explains how to do this.
  4. Click Search results format then:
    1. Click Analyze results to explore your collaboration, subject areas and more
    2. Click All and click Citation overview to explore your trend in citations.

Using Scopus to find your publications and track record metrics (YouTube, 3m23s) demonstrates these steps:

The Search for an author and view their profile tutorial has further information on author search.

  1. Go back to your Author profile
  2. Click More, then View Cited by
  3. Click Analyze results
  4. You can select to analyse Documents by:
    • Author (who is citing your work)
    • Affiliation (which organisation they are from)
    • Country/territory (where they are from)
    • Documents by subject area (this shows if there is uptake in areas beyond your immediate discipline).
  5. Download a consolidated table of all filter values from the search results list, e.g. subject areas, affiliations and countries, by selecting Export filter counts at the bottom of the filters list.

Using Scopus to find who is citing your publications (YouTube, 2m34s) explains how to find information on who is citing your work in Scopus: