Library – Using Scival / Incites: Benchmarking researcher metrics

Course description

To use the databases Scival and Incites to identify researcher level metrics that researchers can then use in Grant applications and promotion rounds. BYO devices optional. 

Type of course

Workshop

Presenters

Who should attend

• Early Career Researchers
• Mid Career Researchers
• Established researchers
• Professional Staff

What you will learn

• Navigate and identify features of the databases SciVal and Incites
• Find an individual researcher’s set of publications in SciVal and Incites.
• Analyse a set of publications for useful metrics such as articles published in the top 10% of journals in a discipline, Field Weighted Citation Index (FWCI), Highly Cited papers and Hot papers.
• Understand how these metrics can be used and when the metrics should be used with care