Research metrics and Altmetrics

Track your citation impact, and evidence research for grants and promotion.

There are tools and resources to help you measure and demonstrate the quality and impact of your research. Research metrics include information on citation, journal, book and researcher impact, as well as altmetrics.

If you are applying for academic promotion or making a grant application, we have suggestions on how to demonstrate the impact of your research.

We also offer presentations and workshops on how to use established metrics to help highlight the strength of your research.

Research metrics guide

Information and resources to demonstrate impact using research metrics.

Altmetrics guide

Information and resources for using altmetrics to demonstrate research impact.

Research evidence for promotions and grants guide

A 'how to' guide on information and tools for capturing evidence of, and describing, research outputs.

Are you being cited?

This module will introduce you to the traditional and non-traditional ways of measuring research impact.

Research evidence for grants and promotions workshop

Applications for grant funding or career advancement may be supplemented with providing evidence of engagement, citations and the influence of your research. A session focused on research evidence can introduce metrics that be used to demonstrate evidence of:

Research collaboration
The international engagement of research
Influence of research within a field of research institution or country (benchmarking)
Research published in quality journals
Mentions in online news, social media, patents and policy papers (altmetrics).

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