The blog post of “Metrics for Young Investigators” focused on identifying examples of outputs and activities for young investigators (see the new list of additional metrics). Why track outputs and activities of young investigators? Many investigators are funded by specific grant programs that offer support to develop research skills for young investigators to become independent [...]
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As follows are examples of metrics that can be used to track progress of young investigators. This list does not include citations to publications or examples of outcomes related to research productivity. Ideas for other metrics? Please post ideas for other metrics using the Comments section. Publication History Range Number of Publications per Year Journal [...]
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Interesting Perspective from New England Journal of Medicine: “Performance metrics must also be changed. Clinicians today are assessed according to the number of tests and procedures performed and the number of patients seen. Researchers are judged by the numbers of grants won and articles published. Neither set of metrics clearly leads to improved health outcomes. [...]
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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – National Institutes of Health recently published a manual related to evaluation metrics titled: The Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Evaluation Metrics Manual. The manual contains examples of tangible metrics related to PEPH research outcomes. This manual is an outstanding easy-to-read resource, and includes definitions, examples of [...]
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How can authors of books and book chapters track the impact of their published works? Several ways include: How many libraries hold the book in their collections? Check WorldCat to find how many libraries have a record for the book in their collections. Is the book noted on any Best Seller lists? Are there any [...]
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A traditional publication report captures the research output of an author ranging from peer-reviewed journal articles, invited or contributed conference abstracts, books, book chapters, etc. Further analysis of publication data can reveal co-author collaborations, publication patterns, extent of interdisciplinary research, grant acknowledgement networks and citation influence. These are all tangible examples of measures of scientific [...]
Talley, et al. Database of NIH grants using machine-learned categories and graphical clustering. Nature Methods. Volume: 8, Pages: 443–444. (2011). To facilitate navigation and discovery of NIH-funded research, the authors created a database that uses text mining to extract latent categories and clusters from NIH grant titles and abstracts.
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“OSTP is happy to announce the launch of the beta version of a new online tool that allows the public to track U.S. progress in innovation. The R&D Dashboard is a new website that helps users document and demonstrate the impacts of Federal investments in research and development (R&D).”
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idR offers overlay maps of science as a method to explore the degree of interdisciplinarity of a set of publications from Thomson Reuters Web of Science data or a Pajek vector file. The overlay technique visualizes the spread of publications over the global map of science, i.e. the structure of science as obtained from the [...]
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“. . . have you ever wondered who is actually citing you? Being cited by your colleagues and junior researchers in your department is one thing, but what if your academic hero cites your work? Imagine finding out that your paper was read and acknowledged by the leading researcher(s) in your field; would that not [...]
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