Metrics Toolkit: an online evidence-based resource for navigating the research metrics landscape

J Med Libr Assoc. 2018 Oct;106(4):496-497. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2018.526. Epub 2018 Oct 1.

Abstract

While research metrics may seem well established in the scholarly landscape, it can be challenging to understand how they should be used and how they are calculated. The Metrics Toolkit is an online evidence-based resource for researchers, librarians, evaluators, and administrators in their work to demonstrate or assess the impact of research.

MeSH terms

  • Data Collection / methods*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination / methods*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Librarians
  • Program Evaluation