Research Impact Metrics

This statement was endorsed and approved by the Virginia Tech Faculty Senate on April 21, 2023.

Lists universities' statements of responsible research metrics and case studies from countries and universities in which they have implemented responsible research assessment.

A resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question.

This guide has been created by bibliometric practitioners to support other users of InCites and promote a community of informed and responsible use.

This guide is designed to help those who use SciVal to source and apply bibliometrics in academic institutions.

Blog post from Ludo Waltman summary: Differentiates between micro-level and macro-level research evaluation (i.e., difference between evaluation of institutions and evaluation of individuals and research groups).

An overview of how research assessment reform is being approached across the globe, but most especially in Europe, and how we can learn lessons from such attempts at reform.

A set of ten principles for best practice in metrics-based research assessment so that researchers can hold evaluators to account, and evaluators can hold their indicators to account.

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

The review looks in detail at the potential uses and limitations of research metrics and indicators, exploring the use of metrics within institutions and across disciplines.