Analyse your publications

Use a range of statistical methods to analyse publications, author output and citation counts.

Indicators can be gathered from multiple sources. Find metrics lists the sources you can use to find your publications, co-authors and who is citing your work.

Indicators

Bibliometric indicators
Indicator	Details
Number of publications	This may include peer reviewed journal articles, reviews, conference papers, scholarly books and book chapters.
Career citation count	The number of citations an author has accrued.
Citations per paper	The average citations received per publication in a set of documents.
Percentage of publications that are cited (or uncited)	The extent to which other researchers have utilised the research output of an author (or set of documents).
h-index	A measure of the number of publications published (productivity) and how often they are cited. Learn how to find your h-index.
Normalised citation impact	Normalised indicators show how a paper or group of papers performs relative to averages or baselines. Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI): found via InCites is an indicator of impact normalised for subject focus, age, and document type a CNCI value of: 1 is performance in line with the world average greater than 1 is considered above average (e.g. 2 is considered twice the world average) less than 1 is considered is below average. Field-Weighted Citation Impact: found via Scopus or SciVal is the ratio of citations received relative to the expected world average for a subject field, publication type and publication year. Relative Citation Ratio — found via Dimensions and National Institute of Health's (NIH) iCite database. Field Citation Ratio — found via Dimensions.
Percentage of papers in the top citation percentiles	Documents in the top 1% — the percentage of your papers that have been cited frequently enough to place them in the top 1% (when compared to papers in the same category, year, and of the same document type). Documents in the top 10% — the percentage of your papers that have been cited frequently enough to place them in the top 10%. This is normalised for category, year, and document type.
Collaborations	Industry — the percentage of your papers produced with co-authors from industry. International — the percentage of your papers produced with international co-authors. External — the percentage of your papers produced with co-authors outside your institution, such as corporate or health organisations.
Percentage of documents in top journals	The amount of documents within a publication set that have been published in good quality journals. Visit the Journal quality page for more information.

Interpretation and good practice

Read the following guides for advice and practical tips for commonly used indicators: