Metrics for grant applications and promotions

Learn how to find metrics for your publication track record and top papers to use in grant applications and promotions.

Get an overview of metrics, including citation metrics, journal quality indicators, benchmarking, altmetrics and collaboration measures.

Search for your publication metrics in these databases to see which one represents you the best:

Watch how to navigate and use Web of Science and Scopus (YouTube playlist)

More in depth performance metrics

First, set up a populated Web of Science Researcher Profile of your publications in Web of Science.

Note: If you have recently updated or created your ResearcherID, it may take 2 weeks before you can see your ResearcherID information reflected in Web of Science.

In Web of Science:

1. On the researchers tab select Author Identifiers from the drop-down menu (under Name Search) and search for your ORCID or your Web of Science ResearcherID 
   • Note: If your ORCID or Researcher ID are not up to date, you can perform a name search instead. Watch Web of Science Author Profile for tips on how to clean up your Web of Science profile. 
2. Click View Citation Report for an overview of your publication metrics.
   • Note: We recommend meeting abstracts are removed from your publication list. This is because they are unlikely to attract citations and can reduce your average citations per item.
3. To remove meeting abstracts click the hyperlinked number of publications. Scroll to Document Types (filter) and exclude any meeting abstracts from the list. 
   • Watch Using Web of Science to find your publications and track record metrics (YouTube, 5m18s) to learn more
4. Click Analyze Results and explore the options.Web of Science Categories will show what subject areas you are publishing in 
   • Authors will show who you are collaborating with
   • Countries/Regions and Affiliations will indicate where your co-authors are from

Who is citing your work

1. From the Citation Report, click the Citing Articles number
2. Click Analyze Results to see who cites you the most and where they are from.

Watch Using Web of Science to find your publication and citing information (YouTube, 3m23s) to learn more 

For a group of papers you've authored, you can use the advanced metrics provided in InCites to get a deeper understanding of impact and performance. InCites metrics are based on your authored publications in Web of Science. 

Note: Register an email address to sign into InCites from anywhere. If you are not on campus, and have not yet created an InCites account, you may need to install a UQ Virtual Private Network (VPN) to get access.

Steps: 

In InCites: 

1. Click the dropdown to the left of Report and click Researcher Report 
2. Under Person Name, click the dropdown to the right of Unique ID Search, and select Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCID 
   • See ORCID iD and research identifiers if you have not yet set up a ResearcherID or ORCID iD and added all of your publications to your profile
   • You can also opt to change the date range 
3. To download a PDF copy of the report, click Download PDF 
   • The report includes data relating to your Research Output, Collaboration and Most Cited Documents 
4. To view additional data, go back to the report within the interface and scroll down to see the metrics relating to your Research Output including your H-index, Documents published/cited and % Documents in the top 10%.
5. Click View Data under the Documents Published by WOS Categories infographic to see how your papers are performing
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In the table you will be able to view performance metrics for your papers across different WOS categories - note: the Category Normalised Citation Impact should be interpreted with care, when there are less then 20 papers in a category. 

Metrics in InCites

InCites provides metrics for a varied perspective into your performance:

% Documents in Top 1% 

The percentage of your papers that have been cited enough times to place them in the top 1% (when compared to papers in the same category, year, and of the same document type). You can also get the number of papers in the top 1%. 

% Documents in Top 10%

The percentage of your papers that have been cited enough times to place them in the top 10%. This is normalized for category, year, and document type. You can also get the number of papers in the top 10%. 

Category Normalized Citation Impact

CNCI is an indicator of impact normalized for subject focus, age, and document type. A CNCI value of one represents performance at par with world average, values above one are considered above average, and values below one are considered below average. A CNCI value of two is considered twice the world average.

% Industry Collaborations

The percentage of your papers produced with co-authors from industry.

% International Collaborations

The percentage of your papers produced with international co-authors.

To identify performance metrics for each paper you've authored, follow the Top papers in InCites instructions. 

In Scopus:

1. Click on Authors and enter Author details (don't need an affiliation) 
2. Go to your Author details profile - by clicking on the author's name. 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. 
3. Select your name and you will be presented with your profile including publications. If you have more than one profile, select each profile and click Show documents 
4. Click View list in search results format 
5. Click Analyze search results to explore your collaboration, subject areas and more. Or click All and click View citation overview to explore your trend in citations. 

Watch Using Scopus to find your publications and track record metrics (YouTube, 3m23s)

Who is citing your work...

1. Click the tab Cited by xx documents
2. Click View them in search results format
3. Click Analyze search results to explore what authors are citing you and where they are from (institution, country, journal published in).

Watch Using Scopus to find who is citing your publications (YouTube, 2m34s) 

The Author search tutorial has more information on analysing and sorting options.

Find metrics relating to your top performing papers and collaboration in SciVal. SciVal metrics are based on your authored publications in Scopus. 

Steps: 

1. Access SciVal and create a login (if you don't have one already) 
2. On the homepage fill in your last name and first name in the Are you a researcher section
3. Click Find my profile 

4. Complete the process of setting up your research profile, validating your publications if required
   • If you have multiple profiles that are yours, you can request to merge them 
   • Click This is me - connect this researcher profile to my SciVal account, so you can find your profile easily next time
5. Click the Reporting tab 

6. Click Report templates and then select Templates provided by your institution from the drop-down menu 
7. There are three templates to choose from - each have the same metrics indicators, but include different publication types
   • The first template includes all publication types 
   • The second template is limited to articles and reviews
   • The third is limited to articles, reviews and conference papers

8. Select the template you wish to use. You will then be prompted to create a report from template.
9. Select yourself from the list of researcher/s and click Add selected OR drag the entity across (note: if you've completed steps 1-3 you should see yourself here) 
10. Click next step and you will be prompted to name your report so you can save it. 
11. Click Create report 
12. The report should now be displayed. You can edit the year range from the drop-down menu. 

13. You can also choose to export the report to a spreadsheet file (CSV OR XLSX) and other formats from the save as drop-down menu.
14. If you wish to edit the analyses, click Explore/edit analysis  

15. You will now be able to see all of these metrics in the Benchmarking module, where you can make further changes (e.g. add additional metrics) 
16. Click Export to export the data to a CSV or XLSX file. 

Useful indicators 

• the average Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) for your publications (note: interpret with care when <20 publications) 
• Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles (field-weighted) 
  • This will tell you how many publications you have in the top 1%, 5%, 10% (with respect to documents of the same discipline, type and age) 

Details about each of SciVal's metrics indicators 

Visit Top papers in SciVal to identify how each of your papers are performing, and identify those that are performing well within their field. 

Setting up a Google Scholar Citations Profile will display, according to your listed publications, your: 

• h-index
• i10-index
• citation count.

These citations may come from anywhere online:

• Always check who is citing you and what they are saying
• Click the Follow button in your profile to get alerts whenever you are cited

Note: We recommend always using Google Scholar metrics alongside the numbers from Scopus or Web of Science. 

It is still possible to see if your publication has been cited by other documents in the citation databases (Web of Science or Scopus), even if you have publications that are not indexed in those databases.

Cited reference searching has tips on searching for publications that have cited a reference.