Support for metrics
If you wish to use metrics to make decisions with financial implications (e.g. hiring and promotion, assigning funding etc.) we strongly recommend that you consult Research Services, in order to check if your planned use of metrics is responsible, appropriate and in line with University guidelines.
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Research Services
Contact the Research Information and Quality team (researchIQ@sheffield.ac.uk) for advice and support with:
- assessing the research outputs of your faculty, school or department
- metrics in support of funding bids
- advice on metrics and the REF
- using metrics responsibly
More information on the support available from the Research Information and Quality team.
University Library
The University Library can provide general advice on:
- an overview of citation metrics and altmetrics (what they are and how they work)
- how to use metrics tools to identify highly cited or highly discussed journals, authors and journal papers for your studies or research
- methods to track citations and attention received by your own research outputs
- the strengths, drawbacks and limitations of metrics
For guidance on any of the above, please contact library@sheffield.ac.uk