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Research Impact Metrics

Provides an overview of Research Impact Metrics

Benchmarking

Some metrics are designed to benchmark across disciplines, like Field Weighted/ Category Normalized Citation Impact, SNIP and SJR. Other metrics should be only used to benchmark within the same discipline areas, like h-index, citation counts, publications in top citation/ journal percentiles, Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, etc. We suggest using multiple metrics to compare results:

  • Choose normalised metrics such as the FWCI/CNCI, especially if comparing between different subject areas. These metrics are normalised to compensate for different publication and citation rates in different fields.
  • The H index does not compare well between different subject areas, and its size varies with the type of entity selected - one researcher's H index can't be compared to the H index of a whole department, or even a research team, for example.
  • The percent of publications in top citation percentiles, or percent in Q1 journals, as well as the FWCI/CNCI, are better metrics for comparing a single researcher to a group of researchers.

See below information on how to do benchmarking in SciVal and InCites:

Instructions:

1. Go to SciVal.

2. Go to Compare and select Benchmark -> All Metrics

3. Add Researchers Institutions  Regions Topics  and/or Subject areas  to benchmark. 

4. Set the year range.

5. Change the display to Table (unless you want a chart of a single metric).

 

6. Change the selected metric, OR

7. Add more metrics.

8. You can Export to a Spreadsheet, or Add to Reporting to save for later.

9. You can also filter the data by subject area. This can be useful if most of your publications are in one subject - e.g. if most of your publications are in quantum physics and you want to benchmark against Australian researchers in this area, add yourself and the region Australia, then filter to the subject area 5108 Quantum Physics.

If you want to benchmark against a more specific field, try adding a   Topic to the analysis, or contact your Faculty Librarian for help.

Instructions 

1.  Log into Incites. Note: You will need to register with your Macquarie email address the first time you use it.

2. Select the Analyze module.

3. When you get to the below page, change the Entity Type to Researchers and click Start.

4. Search for your profile and select it.

5. Set the year range.

6. Change or add more metrics.

 

To benchmark yourself against all researchers in a particular subject area

7. Go to Baselines

8. Add a Global Baseline, AND/OR

9. Add a Country/Region Baseline. To make the country/region baseline option available:

      9a. Tick the box next to your name.

      9b. Select Pin to Top from the popup at the bottom of the screen.

      9c. Add the country/region baseline, which should now be available.

10. Go to Filters.

11. Select Research Area

12. Search for and select your research area

13. Select Update Results.

This filters your publications, as well as the baselines, to papers within the chosen research area.

14. From here you can download your results to Excel.

15. If you want to benchmark against institutions or departments, change the input and run another analysis, then Download this and compare it to your data from the Researchers input.

For help with benchmarking, contact your Faculty Librarian.