Benchmarking is comparing two or more entities across different measures or metrics.
Entities can include individual researchers or group of researchers, institutions, group of institutions, geographic regions, and research or topic areas.
These entities can be compared using a range of research metrics such as field normalised citation impact, number of publications, average citations, percentage of collaboration, percentage of publications in high ranking journals etc.
Examples:
- Compare a researcher to all researchers in a topic or research area using average citations or percentage international collaboration
- Compare a researcher to other researchers or group of researchers using h-index or average citations
- Compare different universities percentage of publications in Q1 ranked journals
- Compare an institution to a country or geographical region across United Nations SDG goals
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