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Metrics for grant applications

How to find and use metrics to support a grant application

Your track record

Where are you and your publications best represented?

Prepare a grant application that presents you in the best possible light. Collect evidence from Scopus and Web of Science to determine where you and your publications are best represented. Export the data to Excel for comparison.

Create a Citation Overview in Scopus and a Citation Report in Web of Science and compare your:

  • number of publications
  • total citations
  • citations for individual publications over time
  • h-index.

If you are best represented in Scopus, use Scopus and SciVal. If you are best represented in Web of Science, use Web of Science, InCites and Journal Citation Reports.

Your author performance report

Author performance reports in SciVal

SciVal is an integrated suite of tools that include benchmarking, collaboration and trend visualization and analysis tools that helps users track team and individual research performance. Use SciVal to analyse your Scopus publication data.

A SciVal Overview Report can provide evidence to help broadly discuss the quality of a publication set, as well as provide basic collaboration information.

Provides:
  • Scholarly output
  • Field-Weighted Citation Impact
  • Citations per publication
  • h-index
  • h5-index
  • benchmarks of multiple metrics and collaboration metrics
  • topics analysis.

Edit the data to add other researchers/institutions/countries to the benchmarking.

Example statements:

I have published 106 articles and reviews since 2012. Based on these papers, my h-Index Is 14 and the papers have a Field Weighted Citation Impact of 1.63 -  they are being cited 1.63 times more than the world average for papers of the same age, subject area and document type (SciVal, Dec 2022).

81% of my papers have an International collaborator (SciVal, Dec 2022).

Author performance reports in InCites

InCites is a citation-based research analytics tool that enables you to benchmark your output against peers worldwide. Use InCites to analyse your Web of Science publication data.

An InCites Researcher Report can provide evidence to help broadly discuss the quality of a publication set, collaboration, and top performing papers. 

  • Create a Researcher Report in InCites that includes an analysis of your research output, collaboration and most-cited documents.
  • Click View the data to add or remove metrics from the report or edit the date range.
Provides:
  • Scholarly output
  • times cited
  • citation impact
  • h-index
  • % of documents in top 10%
  • Web of Science Categories
  • collaboration metrics. 
Example statement:

My 169 publications in InCites have a Category Normalised Citation Impact of 1.92, meaning they have been cited 92% more than expected for documents in the same subject category, document type and publication year (InCites, Dec 2022).

Collaboration

Collaboration metrics in SciVal

Explore your existing collaborations (with authors and institutions), based on co-authored publications and impact related metrics in the Collaboration Module in SciVal.

  • Find your rate of international, national and corporate collaborations.
  • Export data and review the underlying list of publications behind every publication count.

Collaboration metrics in InCites

Explore metrics for publication sets with specific collaborators in an InCItes Researcher Analysis. Customise the indicators and add baselines (if required), to measure and benchmark research performance of a collaboration.

Example statements:

63.6% of my publications involve international co-authorship (SciVal, Dec 2022) – my level of international collaboration is above average for Australia and my discipline.

8 of my publications involve collaboration with government affiliated authors (SciVal, Dec 2022).

Authorship position

Gather data around authorship position to provide evidence of your contribution to research publications.

Authorship in SciVal

Use the SciVal Overview Module (Published Tab, sub-section Authorship type) to view a table listing the various authorship types in combination with a combination of metrics. Authorship type is also available as a metric in the Benchmarking Module.

Authorship in Web of Science

View your Web of Science Author Profile page or search for yourself as an author to see your authorship position metrics (first, last, or corresponding author). 

  1. Login to InCites.
  2. Start a new analysis by selecting Researchers from the Analyse drop-down menu.
  3. Clear all filters.
  4. Search for your records. Select how you want to search via the Person ID Type Group drop-down box:
    • Search by WoS Author Record to identify your full output and minimize the risk of missed name variant.
    • Search by Unique ID using your ORCiD or Researcher ID.
  5. Select Collaborations with People from the Filter Menu and enter the names of collaborators.
  6. Click Update. Your record will now include only publications of which you and these collaborator/s are co-authors.
Example statement:

I am first author on 21 manuscripts and sole author of five works (SciVal, Dec 2022).