Research metrics
Measuring impact in the arts, humanities and creative industries
Measuring impact in the arts, humanities and creative industries
Some of the more common traditional metrics, their advantages and disadvantages are included below.
Definition | Count of the number of publications by a researcher, group or institution. |
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Definition | Counts the number of times a publication has appeared in the reference list of other publications (indexed within the same database) |
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Definition | Calculated by dividing the number of citations for a set of publications, with the number of publications in the set |
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Definition | Calculates the percentage of documents cited within a set of documents |
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Definition | Number of citations received over the number of expected citations for similar documents. Shows how an article’s citation count compares to similar articles in the same discipline, age, and publication type. |
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Measures the extent to which publications are present in the most cited 1%, 5%, 10%, usually within a discipline. |
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Definition | An author-level metric designed to measure an author's productivity and impact. It is calculated from the count of citations to an author' set of publications. An H-Index of 15 indicates that 15 of the author's publications have been cited at least 15 times each. |
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Definition | Identifies the position that an author's name appears in the list of authors on a publication. In many disciplines the order of author names indicates the magnitude of contribution. |
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Definition | Measures the extent to which a publication includes co-authors who have international, national, home institution or industry affiliations |
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Definition | Data relating to publications that cite another publication or set of publications, including authors, institutions and geographic regions |
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Definition | Measures the quality of a journal, usually calculated from citations to articles published in the journal during a specific year range |
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