Metrics support for grants and professional development
Browse training and support options to assist researchers to gather and use research or publication metrics when applying for a grant, promotion or as part of your Annual Performance and Development process.
Guides for gathering metrics
- Metrics for grant applications and promotions
- Publication metrics for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, Future Fellowship and DECRA grants
- Publication metrics for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grant
Browse Metrics example statements (UQ staff login required) in UQ eSpace for a list of statements that researchers can use to help contextualise their metrics data.
Training
Complete the Metrics for Grant Writing and Promotion (staff login required) online module in Workday.
- Check our Online and in-person workshops page for training during major grant rounds.
- Request tailored group training (10 or more researchers) by contacting your Faculty Services Librarians. For individuals or smaller groups, we will arrange a consultation with you.
Support for external grant schemes
Before requesting support
Visit the Funding Schemes page and submit the required Notice of Intent or Expression of Interest for your external scheme to the Research Office.
Individual researchers can request metrics assistance for grant schemes.
Grant schemes we support
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Australia Research Council (ARC) excluding Discovery Projects
- Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
Types of support
Depending on your request, we may provide a:
- consultation to work through appropriate databases with you and explain:
- the relevant metrics indicators for your grant scheme
- how to collect the metrics.
- metrics report, tailored to your grant scheme, including for large or strategically important external grant rounds. Reports take up to 10 working days to complete. We may require more time during busy periods.
Request metrics support
Request metrics support (staff login required)
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We may provide metrics reports for:
- external group grant applications such as Centres of Research Excellence
- non-UQ researchers applying for external grant schemes through UQ on an individual basis.
Email our Research Outputs and Impact Team at roiteam@library.uq.edu.au and include the following:
- the names of all researchers
- affiliations of any non-UQ researchers
- researcher identifiers:
- group applications: Scopus Author IDs for all group members fully populated with publications indexed in Scopus
- non-UQ researchers: at least one researcher identifier (e.g. ORCID ID, Scopus ID, or Researcher ID) populated with publications. Please indicate the type of identifier.
- the purpose of request and name of the external grant scheme.
Reports take up to 10 working days to complete. We may require more time during busy periods.
Internal grants and Performance and Development
Use metrics and engagement and impact evidence to support your:
- Annual Performance and Development appraisal or promotion by attaching additional evidence not found in your Individual Activity Profile
- Internal grant scheme application.
Gather metrics and engagement and impact evidence
Use this process to help gather evidence:
- Create performance reports:
- Author performance metrics in SciVal (Scopus)
- Author performance metrics in InCites (Web of Science).
- Identify your top-performing papers
- Check the online attention your publications have received through databases such as Altmetric Explorer or PlumX
- Demonstrate the influence of your books or book chapters
- Demonstrate the impact of your non-traditional research outputs.