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Publication metrics for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grant

Use this guide to access example statements and instructions for finding key evidence to include in your NHMRC Investigator Grant application. Note that not all sections will be relevant to your application.

Example statements for policy citations via PlumX

My publication ABC has been cited in 2 policy documents by the World Health Organization (Scopus; PlumX, MMM YYYY)

Sage Policy Profiles

Sage Policy Profiles is a free tool you can use to track how your research has been cited in policy from governments, think tanks and policymakers across the world. It enables you to download this information for all of your publications - rather than having to look at each publication individually through PlumX. 

Access Sage Policy Profiles

  1. Go to Sage Policy Profiles.

Sage Policy Profiles main webpage

  1. Sign up for an account 
  2. Enter your ORCID ID (if you have one) or your full name as it appears on your publications. 

Sage Policy Profiles login page

  1. Here you will see the number of citations you have across policy documents, and a map showing which countries these citations occurred. You can also click on the 'timeline' view to see the number of publications/policy citation count over time. 

Example of number of policy document citations and map of where citations are coming from.

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  1. Click on the 'policy citations' page tab to see the details of the policy documents that have cited your publication/s.
  2. Click on 'export data' to export these details to an excel spreadsheet. This data can be saved as evidence to back up your claims of impact. Note that the page number in the policy document, where the research is cited is not exported with the rest of the data (but can be seen on the 'policy citations' page).

Recent policy citations

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Find policy citations via PlumX

PlumX Metrics provides details of online interaction with individual research outputs and is available for publications indexed in the Scopus and CINAHL databases.

Access PlumX Metrics

  1. Go to Scopus
  2. Click on Authors, enter the author details (you don't need an affiliation) and click Search
  3. Click the number under Documents to view your publications
  4. Click Sort on …Cited by (highest)
  5. Click the title of a paper
  6. Click View all metrics
  7. Click View PlumX details to go to a new screen where you can explore the details of the online attention.

View all metrics option

View PlumX details option

Note:

  • The altmetrics sourced from PlumX (via Scopus) may overlap with altmetrics sourced from Altmetric Explorer. 
  • Altmetric Explorer may provide more comprehensive information for many disciplines, though PlumX can be more detailed for Health/Medicine disciplines (e.g. it includes clinical practice guidelines and clinical citations).
  • PlumX is particularly good for citations in Australian policy documents.
  • It's highly recommended to check the accuracy of these citations, by looking at policies and clinical guidelines to confirm they have cited/referenced your work. It is also an opportunity to see how your research may have translated into practice. 

Clinical guidelines

Example statement for PlumX

Several of my publications have been cited in clinical guidelines for cancer – for example two of my publications have been cited in the Dynamed Plus guidelines for Ovarian cancer and Adnexal Mass and two in PubMed-indexed Clinical guidelines (PlumX, MMM YYYY).

Note: This can demonstrate translation of research into clinical practice.

Clinical citations from PlumX from Scopus

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Find guidelines and consensus documents citing your work

Check the publications citing your work to see if any are guideline documents. 

From your author profile in Scopus, you can view Cited by and review the documents citing your work for guidelines and consensus statements that can help demonstrate translation of research into clinical practice.