Research metrics
Measuring impact in the arts, humanities and creative industries
Measuring impact in the arts, humanities and creative industries
Institutions typically measure the impact of their researchers’ publications when:
University ranking schemes include publication metrics as part of the methodology for calculating the research performance of institutions.
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The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is an annual ranking of international universities. Universities are ranked using six indicators, relating to alumni, awards, publications, and citations. 60% of the ranking weights relate to institutions and citations across three of the six indicators:
Publications and metrics are sourced from the Web of Science database. |
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QS World University Rankings is an annual rankings list of over 1,000 international institutions. QS ranks more than 1,000 institutions internally. Six indicators are used to calculate rankings:
20% of the score is based on citations metrics sourced from the Scopus database. |
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THE World University Rankings are produced by Times Higher Education THE uses 13 indicators in 5 areas:
Citations are worth 30% of the overall score. Publication and international co-authorship details plus citation counts are sourced from the Scopus database. The SciVal database provides a platform for further analysing Scopus data (the University of Newcastle has a subscription to SciVal). Link to Understanding THE World University Rankings through SciVal – YouTube (1:16 minutes) |
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THE Impact Rankings assess universities against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Publications for each of the 17 SDGs are identified over a five-year period. Publications and metrics are sourced from the Scopus database. |
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The CWTS Leiden Ranking provides indicators of publication output, collaboration, open access publishing, and gender diversity. Results are available in list, chart, or map view. The data source for the rankings is a Leiden University curated dataset of records from the Web of Science database. |