You’ve probably heard of the H-index, JIF or Altmetric Attention Score – but what do those numbers really mean? Can they be trusted? How can they be used? This session introduces research metrics, including citation-based indicators and alternative metrics such as counts of policy and social media mentions. It will enable you to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of metrics and understand their implications. The training will be informed by the University of Nottingham UK Guiding Principles for Use of Metrics in Research Assessment so attendees will be confident they can follow university policy and best practice.
Target audience
This course is available to any University of Nottingham staff or students but will be especially useful for postgraduate researchers and staff directly involved in research.
Learning outcomes
This session may be recorded. If a recording is kept of the session, then please note, that it may be made available to the wider University of Nottingham community.
This is an online session within Microsoft Teams. On the day of the session please use the link in this email to join the meeting. Please do not click the link in this email until the day of the session.