Telling your metrics story

The story you tell about your outputs with research metrics will depend upon several factors, including:

• What you are writing. Is it for a grant application? Are you applying for promotion?
• Are those who will be reading your story part of academia, or your discipline? Do you need to be mindful of the level of detail to include, acronyms and explanation of terminology?
• Do you need to focus on publications over your entire career, or a specific subset (e.g. most current years, only outputs on a particular topic)?
• Is there a limit imposed on how much detail can be included? Grant applications often impose a word limit.
• Can content other than text be included, such as visualisations or tables?