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Metrics for Grant Applications and Promotions

Find your research areas and levels of collaboration

How to find your research areas

Analysing your publications in Scopus and Web of Science will tell you the following:

  • Your main research areas ("fields of research")
  • If your research spans other research areas, it will be multidisciplinary.
Example

As evaluated by Web of Science as at 1 December 2023, my work is multidisciplinary because 34% of my articles are in the field of Biochemistry, 29% in Biophysics and 16% in Oncology"


Identifying your Fields of Research (FoRs)

In SciVal, change the Subject classification to Fields of Research (FOR).

  • Log into SciVal
  • At the bottom of the Overview module you will find a donut or pie chart titled Publication share by Subject Area. Use this to find the percentage of your SciVal research output classified by Field of Research (FoR) codes.

Deciding between Scopus or Web of Science data for tracking performance

This will depend on which indexing platform best reports your metrics.

Following is a comparison of Scopus (Elsevier) and Web of Science (Clarivate) data as at 2019:

  • 37,535 journals were indexed in Scopus (31% more), and 28,560 journal titles were indexed in Web of Science.
  • Journal coverage for Web of Science and Scopus in Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities is low.*
    • Scopus: The strongest coverage is in Biomedical Research, followed by Natural Sciences and Engineering.
    • Web of Science: The strongest coverage is in Natural Sciences and Engineering, followed by Biomedical Research.
* Source: Mongeon, P & Paul-Hus, A. (2016). “The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis”. Scientometrics 106. 213-228. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1765-5

Features Scopus (Elsevier) Web of Science (Clarivate)
Materials Indexed
  • Active peer-reviewed journals: 23,793
  • Inactive journals (mostly predecessors of the active titles): 13,742
  • Conference papers: 8+ million
  • Books: 150,000+
  • Trade publications: 280
  • Book series: 560+
  • Patents: 39+ million
  • Active peer-reviewed journals: 20,219
  • Inactive journals (mostly predecessors of the active titles): 8,341
  • Conference papers: 10+ million
  • Books: 90,000+
Content focus (Institutional profile categories)
  • Health Sciences (28%) (100% MEDLINE, Nursing, Dentistry)
  • Life sciences (33%) (Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Biology)
  • Physical Sciences (19%) (Chemistry, Physics, Engineering)
  • Social Sciences (43%) (Psychology, Economics, Business, strong Arts & Humanities coverage)
  • Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  • Arts & Humanities (strong coverage)
  • Business
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Electronics & Telecommunications
  • Engineering, Computing & Technology (strong coverage)
  • Life Sciences
  • Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (strong coverage)
  • Social and Behavioural Sciences
Time period covered 1970-present 1900-present
Author indexing Author-generated by Scopus-edits only done by Scopus staff Author-created as part of Researcher I Dedited by authors
Considerations
  • Broader international, non-English coverage
  • Stronger biomedical research coverage
  • Effective keyword/index term facet based on underlying databases with indexing
  • Powerful interface and more features:
    • Analyse search results: graphs by year, source (journal), author, institution affiliation, discipline, country, document type; exportable to MS Excel
    • Compare journals: compares up to 10 sources by impact metrics: number of citations, number of articles published in a year, % of articles not cited, & % of articles that are review articles, all graphed by year
    • View secondary documents, which are documents not indexed in Scopus (retrieved from the references or citations of the documents that Scopus covers).
  • In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) chose Scopus as a new data provider for its Science and Engineering Indicators report due to Scopus’ broader global coverage
  • Indexed journals have fewer coverage gaps
  • Deeper citation indexing across all content (back to 1900)
  • More options for citation analysis for institutions
  • More robust author searching - all authors from all publications are indexed, searchable and unified based on ORCID and ResearcherID profiles
  • Funding Data: 2008-present
Sources: Clarivate Analytics and Scopus webpages, A. Ben Wagner. (2015). A Practical Comparison of Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection (https://ubir.buffalo.edu/xmlui/handle/10477/38568); Iowa State University, LibGuides: Scopus (http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/c.php?g=120420&p=785310)

 

Example

"As evaluated by Web of Science as at 1 December 2023, my work is multidisciplinary because 34% of my articles are in the field of Biochemistry, 29% in Biophysics and 16% in Oncology"

Finding your level of collaboration

Find your level of collaboration by analysing your metrics in Scopus and Web of Science.

  • Do any publications have a corporate/industry author?
  • How many publications have a non-WSU or overseas author?

See also: Collaborations.

Example

"In Web of Science as at 1 December 2023, 70% of my journal articles have international co-authors, with 15% of my papers have international co-authors, being three papers collaborated with Harvard University authors".


This Metrics for grant applications guide includes instructions on finding and using metrics to provide evidence of your track record and top papers.

Use metrics for grant applications and promotions

Metrics may indicate research quality and provide supporting evidence of claims that researchers make about their track record, contribution to a discipline, international profile or capacity to collaborate.

Tips to enhance your research reporting:

Research metrics vary over time and between disciplines:

  • Always put your claims into context
  • Calculate regularly
  • Provide a source (e.g., SciVal, InCites, etc.) and a date range (e.g., 1996-2023) or collection date (e.g., as at 1 July 2024) for your data
Exemplar statements for describing the effect of your metrics

Exemplar statements for your metrics

An example statement aims to explain metric performance and demonstrate the effect of that metric. Example statements can help you understand your research metrics in Clarivate, Elsevier, Altmetric Explorer and Google Scholar.

There are two parts to an example statement:

  • The first part is a written explanation of your metric
  • The second part of the statement demonstrates the effect of that metric (see the text below highlighted in italics).

Example statement (for metrics which cannot be benchmarked):

“Between 1996 and 2023, as evaluated by SciVal within the field of Microbiology (FoR 3107), I have an average of 76.62 cites per paper, indicating the scholarly influence and quality of my research work.”

Example statement (for metrics that can be benchmarked):

“Between 1996 and 2023, as evaluated in SciVal within the field of Microbiology (FoR 3107), I have an average of 76.62 cites per paper, exceeding Western Sydney University (43.14), Australian (64.42) and world (27.79) averages, indicating the scholarly influence and quality of my research work.”

What metrics can you use?

Consider the metrics on this page for grant and academic promotions. The Library provides guidelines that explain individual metrics and how to demonstrate their effect, including author metrics, collaboration metrics, engagement metrics, etc.

Contact your School Librarian for information about specific metrics, and refer to these Library guidelines to describe the effect of these metrics.

Grant Applications

Important

Check the grant 'Instructions for Applicants' and the Australian Research Council (ARC) ROPE Statement for their grant schemes.

  • Make sure your ORCID record and researcher profiles are correct and up to date and that you have bookmarked them for easy access.
  • Filter by Field of Research.
  • Where available, benchmark metrics are best represented as percentages (%). They provide an indication of your metrics' performance compared to other entities. Look for where your metrics are higher than other entities, i.e., where you "shine."
  • A statement about which authorship order is most prestigious for your discipline, e.g., first or last author position. It is recommended that you add this statement to your grant application.
  • Ask your school librarian for help setting up your SciVal, Web of Science/InCites, and Altmetric Explorer researcher reports so you can bookmark these for easy access to your metrics.
  • Do not repeat metrics across sections of your grant application.
  • Use the best-performing metrics to build your grant narrative, i.e., to include in your grant 'story' and help your research 'shine'. To help you understand and explain the effect of your metrics, refer to the exemplar statements under “types of metrics” for SciVal, InCites and Altmetric Explorer.
  • Generally speaking, use percentages (%) to benchmark author performance against the author's academic unit, institution, Australia, and the world. Where the option is available, exclude self-cites (use of self-cites is generally reserved for topics where there is not much research available, e.g., new topics)

Note: The use of journal-based metrics is not encouraged for National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants, as the NHMRC supports The DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment) recommendations on research assessment.


Fields of Research

  • Speak to your School Librarian about finding your top (1) Field of Research code (for NHMRC grants) or three (3) top Field of Research codes (for ARC grants). Your School Librarian can also help you identify your top 10 publications. For the three (3) ARC Field of Research codes, you will be asked to work out the percentage of research you have in these Fields of Research (see the section below titled 'Finding your research areas'.
  • Ensure you have applied Field of Research (FoR) codes to your research output where possible. To check if your research is missing a FoR, review this list of Publications without FoRs. For enquiries, contact researchdata@westernsydney.edu.au

Career Highlights

In your research activity statement, look for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) (e.g., creative works).

RAS Creative Works


Authorship Order

Filter by fields of research in SciVal or InCites. Indicate the percentage of work for each authorship type:

Scopus metrics Web of Science metrics
Publications as first author (%) % First Author (2008-2020) (%)
Publications as last author (%) % Last Author (2008-2020) (%)
Corresponding author (%) % Corresponding Author (2008-2020) (%)

IMPORTANT: Include a statement in your grant application indicating the prestige of your discipline in both first and last authorship order.


Top/Career-Best Research Outputs

Indicators for each top scholarly research output:

These are the top research outputs nominated by you in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Management System (RMS)

Add the following indicators under each of your top research outputs:

Consider using the following metrics for each top/career-best work:

Full reference (author name in bold text)
Citation impact indicators  (as at DD MMM YYYY)
SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Citations in Scopus (#)  Times Cited in All Databases (#)  

[Article] Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) (#)

 

 

PlumX metrics (#)

 

Attention Score (#)

    Policy mentions (#) 
Co-authored across countries by fields of research (#)     

SciVal Topic (and Prominence percentile) (%)

Citation Topics (#)   
Journal impact indicators

Scopus Sources (as at DD MMM YYYY)

JCR (as at DD MMM YYYY)

 
Source Title (e.g., journal)  Source Title (e.g., journal)   
CiteScore (#) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) (with self-cites) (#)   
%Cited (%)    
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) (#)    
h5-index (#)   h5-index (#)
SCImago Journal Quartile (#)  Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Quartile (#)   
CiteScore Percentile, Rank and Subject Area (#) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Rank (#)   
  Journal Impact Factor (JIF) subject area (of the journal rank)  

For example*:

Khan A, Evangelista AU, Varua ME. Evaluating the impact of marketing interventions on sugar-free and sugar-sweetened soft drink sales and sugar purchases in a fast-food restaurant setting. BMC Public Health. 2023;23(1):1-14. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-16395-z

Citation impact indicators:

As at 1 July 2024, in Scopus, a citation count of 47 indicates that the work has been referenced 47 times in other scholarly publications, reflecting its relevance and impact within the academic community.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, this work has an article FWCI (Field-Weighted Citation Impact) of 3.50, indicating that it is cited 3.5 times more frequently than the global average for similar publications, reflecting a very high impact and influence within its field.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, a PlumX metric with 22 readers in Mendeley indicates that the work has garnered attention from 22 users, reflecting a growing interest and engagement within the academic community.

As of 1 July 2024 in Scopus, this article has been co-authored across three fields of research in SciVal, indicating a multidisciplinary collaboration, enhancing the research's reach, visibility, and potential impact across diverse academic domains.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, the SciVal topic in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health, with a prominence percentile of 98.512, indicates that the research area is highly influential and of significant interest, placing it among the top 1.5% of topics in terms of academic impact and visibility.

Journal impact indicators

Title: BMC Public Health (open access)

As at 1 July 2024, a CiteScore of 6.5 for 2023 in Scopus Sources reflects a solid impact and relevance for this journal within its academic field.

As at 1 July 2024a %Cited metric of 75% in Scopus Sources demonstrates a high level of engagement and impact with this journal within the academic community.

As at 1 July 2024, in Scopus Sources, the journal SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) of 1.386 reflects its strong influence and relevance within its academic domain.

As at 1 July 2024, this journal's SciVal h5-index stands at 50demonstrating a high level of impact and influence within its field.

As at 1 July 2024, In Scopus Sources, this journal is ranked first quartile of journals in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health (91/577), indicating its high impact, rigorous peer review, and strong visibility within the academic and clinical research communities.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus Sources, the journal's CiteScore Percentile of 82% and Rank of 91/577 in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health reflects its high citation impact and a strong position among its peers, enhancing its visibility and prestige in the academic community.

 

*Disclaimer:

The citation metrics, impact factor, or any other numerical indicators referenced in this article should not be interpreted as definitive measures of its academic value or quality. Such metrics may be influenced by various factors, including but not limited to publication trends, indexing practices, and disciplinary citation behaviours, and may not fully capture the scope or significance of the research presented herein. Readers are encouraged to engage with the content directly to assess its relevance and contribution to the field.


Bibliometrics

Article-, citation, and author-level metrics are quantifiable indicators of research performance that can support the evidence you provide in your grant application. Select the metrics where you "shine".

  • Citation and Journal Impact indicators" measure the impact and reach of an individual scholarly articles. Use these for your top publications
  • Citation Impact Indicators measure the influence and reach of scholarly works. Use these to measure the performance of your body of work.
  • Author Impact Indicators quantify an author's impact and influence in their field. Use these to quantify your author impact and influence in your fields of research.

Grant guidelines direct you not to repeat metrics in your application. The following categories (groupings) of indicators are only recommendations. Be guided by your grant's "Instruction for applicants" and your Research Development Officer (RDO) on where to use your metrics.

 
Citation impact indicators (for influence and reach of your scholarly works)
SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Citations per Publication (#) Citation Impact (#)  
Number of citing countries (#)    
    Attention by Region (#)
Benchmark: Cited Publications (%) Benchmark: % Documents Cited (%)  
Benchmark: Outputs in Top 1% Citation Percentiles (%) Benchmark: % Documents in Top 1% (%)  
Benchmark: Outputs in Top 10% Citation Percentiles (%) Benchmark: % Documents in Top 10% (%)  
  Benchmark: % Highly Cited Papers (%)  
  Benchmark: % Hot Papers (%)  
 
Author impact indicators (for impact and influence of authors in their fields of research)
SciVal metrics InCites metrics Google Scholar
Citation Count (without self-cites) (#) Times Cited (without self-cites) (#) Citations (All) (#)
Scholarly Output (#) Web of Science Documents (#)  
  Benchmark: % All Open Access Documents (%)  
Prominence Percentile (%)    
h-index (with self-cites) (#) h-index (with self-cites) (#) h-index (with self-cites) (#)
h-index (without self-cites) (#) h-index (without self-cites) (#)  
m-index (#)    
g-index (#)    
    i10-index (#)

Research Impact Indicators

[see: ARC Research Impact Pathway Table]

Impact Indicators SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Societal     Policy mentions (#) Particularly relevant to NHMRC Level 3 leadership grants
    Social media mentions (#) (e.g., X, Facebook, etc.)
    Article statistics  (#) (e.g., Total mentions, Research Outputs)
    News and blog mentions (#) (e.g., All news outlets)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#)  
Economic

Patent-Citations Count (#)

Citations from Patents (#)  
Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output (#)    
Patents Count (#)    
Scholarly Output cited by Patents (#)   Patent mentions (#)
Health     Policy mentions (#) Particularly relevant to NHMRC Level 3 Leadership grants.
Knowledge [academic]

[Author] Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) (#)

[Author] Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) (#)  
Contributed to topic clusters (#)    

Collaboration indicators

Collaboration (sector) indicators:

SciVal metrics InCites metrics
Benchmark: Academic-Corporate Collaboration (%) Benchmark: % Industry Collaborations (%)
Benchmark: Academic-Government Collaboration (%)  
Benchmark: Academic-Medical Collaboration (%)  
Benchmark: Academic Only Collaboration (%)  
Benchmark: Academic-Other Collaboration (%)  

Collaboration (geographical) indicators:

SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Only International Collaboration (%) Benchmark: % International Collaboration (%)  
Only National Collaboration (%) Benchmark: % Domestic Collaboration (%)  
Only Institutional Collaboration (%)    
Number of citing countries (#)   Attention by Region (#) (e.g., X posts, Facebook posts, news stories, policy documents)

Contact

Contact your School Librarian for information about research metrics and how to set up, maintain, and bookmark your researcher profiles. Contact your Research Development Officer (RDO) in Grant Services for general inquiries about grant applications.


© Western Sydney University, unless otherwise attributed. "Grant Applications" created by Lucy Walton at Western Sydney University Library is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 

Academic Promotions Applications

Important

  • Review the guidelines to determine the period you will report on, e.g., over the past five years, since your last promotion, etc.

  • The emphasis is on your metrics, not how they are benchmarked against other entities.

  • Look for metrics that ‘shine’ across your body of work.

  • Refer to the exemplar statements under types of metrics for SciVal, InCites and Altmetric Explorer in the draft Research Metrics Toolkit to demonstrate the effect of your metric in your academic promotion application.

  • In the Academic Promotion Guidelines (Dec 2023), if you are applying for Levels D or E, you are asked to nominate three significant scholarly works to add to the Academic Promotions Application Form.

  • Request access to your SciVal report template and instructions on generating metrics reports.

  • Contact the Academic Promotions Coordinator for help with your application.


Section 3: Work Profile

In terms of indicators to include in your application, be guided by your workload percentages across the three fields, being:

  • Teaching and Learning
  • Research and Scholarship
  • Engagement, Service and Governance

Section 4: Integrated Summary Statement

Refer to your Research Activity Statement (RAS) > Publications tab. The RAS is available from the Research Portal. The RAS includes the following SciVal metrics (you will find explanations for these metrics on the first or second page of your Research Activity Statement).

Demonstrate the effect of the metrics where you “shine” in your Research Activity Statement (see: exemplar statements which demonstrate the effect of those metrics):

 
Research Activity Statement includes the following SciVal metrics:
 
Author Type

Indicate the percentage of work for each authorship type:

Scopus metrics Web of Science metrics
Publications as first author (%) % First Author (2008-2020) (%)
Publications as last author (%) % Last Author (2008-2020) (%)
Corresponding author (%) % Corresponding Author (2008-2020) (%)

Include a statement in your grant indicating the prestige of your discipline in both first and last authorship order.


Section 5a. Achievements in Teaching and Learning including Leadership in Teaching and Learning


Section 5b. Achievements in Research Scholarship, including Leadership in Research and Scholarship

Section 5b of the Academic Promotions Guidelines (Dec 2023) indicates that applicants should outline the research output, such as publications (including Non-Traditional Research Outputs), particularly demonstrating the quality and peer recognition of research achievements relative to your discipline standards.

For example, consider including the Creative Works (Non-Traditional Research Outputs) quantified in your Research Activity Statement:

RAS Creative Works

 

Leadership in Research and Scholarship.

Collaboration (sector) indicators

SciVal metrics InCites metrics
Academic-Corporate Collaboration (%) % Industry Collaborations (%)
Academic-Government Collaboration (%)  
Academic-Medical Collaboration (%)  
Academic Only Collaboration (%)  
Academic Other Collaboration (%)  

Section 5c. Achievements in Engagement, Governance and Service components

Research Impact indicators

[see: ARC Research Impact Pathway Table]

Impact/Benefits SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Societal     Policy mentions (#) Particularly relevant to NHMRC Level 3 leadership grants
    Social media mentions (#) (e.g., X, Facebook, etc.)
    Article statistics  (#) (e.g., Total mentions, Research Outputs)
    News and blog mentions (#) (e.g., All news outlets)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#)  
Economic

Patent-Citations Count (#)

Citations from Patents (#)  
Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output (#)    
Patents Count (#)    
Scholarly Output cited by Patents (#)   Patent mentions (#)
Health     Policy mentions (#) Particularly relevant to NHMRC Level 3 Leadership grants.
Knowledge [academic]

[Author] Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) (#)

[Author] Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) (#)  
Contributed to topic clusters (#)    

Collaboration (geographical) indicators

SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Only International Collaboration (%) % International Collaboration (%)  
Only National Collaboration (%) % Domestic Collaboration (%)  
Only Institutional Collaboration (%)    
Number of citing countries (#)   Attention by Region (#) (e.g., X posts, Facebook posts, news stories, policy documents)

Section 6. Three Significant Scholarly Works (Levels D and E only)

You must include three significant scholarly sole-authored or collaborative works with their application, with at least two of the three works being within the last five years (except where the applicant has an approved timeframe extension of time to the five-year Application cap). These significant works must be submitted with your application as either a single electronic copy of each significant work (preferred) or three hard copies of each of your significant works. See Section 5 of the Academic Promotions Guidelines for more information.

Consider using the following metrics per significant work:

Full reference (author name in bold text)
CITATION IMPACT INDICATORS  (as at DD MMM YYYY)
SciVal metrics InCites metrics Altmetric Explorer
Citation Count (without self-cites) (#)  Times Cited (without self-cites) (#)   

[Article] Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) (#)

 

 

PlumX metrics (#)

 

Attention Score (#)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (#)

 
    Policy mentions (#) 
Co-authored across countries by fields of research (#)     

SciVal Topic (and Prominence percentile) (%)

Citation Topics (#)   
JOURNAL IMPACT INDICATORS:

Scopus Sources (as at DD MMM YYYY)

JCR (as at DD MMM YYYY)

 
Source Title (e.g., journal)  Source Title (e.g., journal)   
CiteScore (#) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) (with self-cites) (#)   
%Cited (%)    
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) (#)    
h5-index (#) OR Google Scholar h5-index (#)    
Journal Quartile (#)  Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Quartile (#)   
CiteScore Percentile, Rank and Subject Area (#) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Rank (#)   
  Journal Impact Factor (JIF) subject area (of the journal rank)  

For example*

Khan A, Evangelista AU, Varua ME. Evaluating the impact of marketing interventions on sugar-free and sugar-sweetened soft drink sales and sugar purchases in a fast-food restaurant setting. BMC Public Health. 2023;23(1):1-14. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-16395-z

Citation impact indicators:

As at 1 July 2024, In Scopus, a citation count of 47 indicates that the work has been referenced 47 times in other scholarly publications, reflecting its relevance and impact within the academic community.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, this work has an article FWCI (Field-Weighted Citation Impact) of 3.50, indicating that it is cited 3.5 times more frequently than the global average for similar publications, reflecting a very high impact and influence within its field.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, a PlumX metric with 22 readers in Mendeley indicates that the work has garnered attention from 22 users, reflecting a growing interest and engagement within the academic community.

As of 1 July 2024 in Scopus, this article has been co-authored across three fields of research in SciVal, indicating a multidisciplinary collaboration, enhancing the research's reach, visibility, and potential impact across diverse academic domains.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus, the SciVal topic in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health, with a prominence percentile of 98.512, indicates that the research area is highly influential and of significant interest, placing it among the top 1.5% of topics in terms of academic impact and visibility.

Journal impact indicators:

Title: BMC Public Health (open access)

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus Sources, a CiteScore of 6.5 for 2023 reflects a solid impact and relevance for this journal within its academic field.

As at 1 July 2024a %Cited metric of 75% in Scopus Sources demonstrates a high level of engagement and impact with this journal within the academic community.

As at 1 July 2024, in Scopus Sources, the journal SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) of 1.386 reflects its strong influence and relevance within its academic domain.

As at 1 July 2024, In Scopus Sources, this journal is ranked first quartile of journals in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health (91/577), indicating its high impact, rigorous peer review, and strong visibility within the academic and clinical research communities.

As at 1 July 2024 in Scopus Sources, the journal's CiteScore Percentile of 82% and Rank of 91/577 in Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health reflects its high citation impact and a strong position among its peers, enhancing its visibility and prestige in the academic community.

*Disclaimer:

The citation metrics, impact factor, or any other numerical indicators referenced in this article should not be interpreted as definitive measures of its academic value or quality. Such metrics may be influenced by various factors, including but not limited to publication trends, indexing practices, and disciplinary citation behaviours, and may not fully capture the scope or significance of the research presented herein. Readers are encouraged to engage with the content directly to assess its relevance and contribution to the field.


Academic Promotion Application CV

 

Teaching and Learning

Consider adding reviews about your open textbooks as achievements (see page 13 of the Academic Promotions Guidelines under Teaching and Learning Information).

 

Research and Scholarship

For your Academic Promotion Application CV, consider including your best performing metrics (bibliometrics and altmetrics where you "shine") that are not included in your Research Activity Statement, e.g.:

SciVal metrics InCites metrics Google Scholar
  [Author] Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) (#)  
Scholarly Output (#) Web of Science Documents (#)  
Prominence Percentile (%)    
Citation Count (without self-cites) (#) Times Cited (without self-cites) (#) Citations (All) (#)
Citations per Publication (#) Citation Impact (#)  
  h-index (with self-cites) (#) h-index (with self-cites) (#)
  h-index (without self-cites) (#)  
  % Documents in Top 1% (%)  
  % Documents in Top 10% (%)  
  % Highly Cited Papers (%)  
  % Hot Papers (%)  
    i10-index (with self-cites) (#)

CONTACT

Contact your School Librarian for support, and refer to these Library guidelines to describe the effect of these metrics.

For more information about your Research Activity Statement, email the Research Data Team: ResearchData@westernsydney.edu.au


© Western Sydney University, unless otherwise attributed. "Academic Promotions Applications" created by Lucy Walton at Western Sydney University Library is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 

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