Author Metrics and Profiles
What metrics can I use?
The following are commonly used to measure academic research impact:
- Number of research outputs
- Number of publications by journal quartile
- Career total citation count
- Citations per research output
- Percentage of research outputs cited
- h-index - a measurement of both documents and citations. H-Index is an older metric and is declining in popularity.
- Category Normalised Citation Impact - useful for comparing research across subject areas and publication years.
- your level of collaboration metrics via SciVal
- benchmarking — how your individual research outputs compare to similar outputs or researchers in your field.
- Alernative metrics - attention to research outputs beyond the scholarly community.
Common tools for calculating research impact are Web of Science, Scopus, Altmetrics Explorer, and Google Scholar.
What measures of esteem can I use?
The following are commonly used to outline academic research contribution:
- Editorial or peer review contributions
- Awards and prizes
- Registered designs or patents
- Research fellowships
Author Profiles
Online profile and identifiers play a crucial role in accurately identifying you, your research, and affiliations. They showcase your published work and research activities.
You may have a profile in several different systems both internally to CQUniversity or externally, and you will need to ensure you maintain and connect these systems to keep your research profiles accurate.
CQUniversity systems that contain profiles, include:
Setup Your Author Profiles
Your Scopus Author Profile is automatically created upon the publication of your first Scopus-indexed article. Regularly check your Scopus Author Profile to ensure that all your publications are consolidated in a single, comprehensive profile.
The Web of Science Researcher Profile is an author profile system that allows you to claim publications, monitor citations and metrics, and maintain your Web of Science record.
Web of Science collaborates with journals to verify your peer-review and journal editing history, enhancing the credibility of your profile.
A Google Scholar profile lists your publications found in Google Scholar, including basic metrics such as citation counts and h-index.
You need to create and manage your Google Scholar profile. By making your profile public, it will appear at the top of Google Scholar searches for your name, enhancing the visibility of your research.
