Metrics
Use research (or publication) metrics when applying for a grant or promotion. Measures include citation metrics, journal quality indicators, benchmarking, altmetrics and collaboration.
2. Finding metrics
Find your publications and their citations
All disciplines:
Science disciplines:
CAS SciFinder-n — first time users will need to create a profile to use this database.
Watch how to navigate and use Web of Science and Scopus (YouTube playlist)
Measure the performance and rank of publications
- InCites — for publications indexed in Web of Science. Create an InCites account to access it from anywhere. If you are not on a UQ campus, and have not yet created an InCites account, you may need to install a UQ Virtual Private Network (VPN) to get access.
- SciVal — for publications indexed in Scopus. Users must register with a username and password
- Publish or Perish — for publications indexed in Google Scholar or Microsoft Academic
Find influential researchers in a field
Based on publications in Web of Science:
- Essential Science Indicators (ESI) — discover the top 1% most cited researchers in a field
- Highly Cited Researchers — for exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for a field
Find patent citations
For locating citing and cited patent information try these citation discovery tools.
Your metrics at UQ
Search for yourself or fellow researchers in Author Statistics to see:
- publications (listed in UQ eSpace)
- research areas
- collaboration
- peer reviewing activity (drawn from your Web of Science Researcher Profile).
This is an exploratory tool rather than a reporting tool.
Contact the Librarian team for expert advice.
Contact the Research Outputs and Impact team to request publication reports for Research units, Institutes or Faculties
Next steps
Use metrics to provide evidence of:
- engagement with your research end-users
- the impact of your research
