We run regular online presentations by guest speakers on different aspects of research. Recordings of past webinars are also available.
Hosted by Anne Lennox and Tristan Badham from the Library's Research Support and Services team, the session will delve into the core aspects of open research and gain a comprehensive understanding of the university's enterprise-wide policy.
This session aims to heighten awareness and illuminate the crucial role researchers play in advancing open scholarship. Explore the policy's implications for your work and discover how you can actively contribute to the university's commitment to open research practices.
Date & Time: February 21, 2.20pm to 3.30pm
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Measuring and describing the quality and impact of research performance is important for individual researchers and institutions. Researchers may need to demonstrate their research performance when applying for a promotion or research grant. Institutions may wish to track their performance over time and with relevant benchmarks. Research metrics are one way of providing evidence of research performance.
This guide provides information on a wide range of research metrics, definitions and the tools available to locate them. This guide should be used in conjunction with the Research evidence for grants and promotions guide, which provides instructions on how to capture a selection of key metrics, alongside example statements to help researchers craft their own.
It's important to consult the requirements for each research grant or academic promotion process to confirm which research metrics are able to be included.
As research metrics don’t directly measure the quality of research, they are often used alongside other qualitative measures when describing research impact and engagement. See section on Responsible metrics for more information.
This guide will focus on traditional quantitative metrics but include further measures of esteem and altmetrics where appropriate. More information can also be found in the online guide Altmetrics.
Many of the metrics listed in this guide are associated with researcher profiles in a number of platforms. Creating and maintaining your researcher profiles and ensuring your publications have been correctly attributed to you, will increase the accuracy of your metrics.
More information is available in the guide Researcher profiles and ORCiD.
Communicating your research may also enhance engagement with your outputs. This can be achieved by:
Making your publications available via open access
Sharing your research data
Communicating your research on social media
Joining researcher networks
For more information on communicating and sharing your research consult the online guide: Strategic publishing
The activity of measuring and describing the quality and impact of academic research is increasingly important in Australia and around the world. In Australia, factors behind this include:
ERA 2018 included an Engagement & Impact Assessment report that "examined how universities are translating their research into economic, social and other benefits and encourage greater collaboration between universities, industries and other end-users of research." In this context the ARC used the following definitions:
Source: https://utas.libguides.com/research_impact