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Indicator and tool development - Science-Metrix
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Indicator and tool development
We're always working at the frontiers of bibliometric research.
At Science-Metrix, we have developed many new indicators in house, based on client needs or our observations of gaps in the field, and we constantly refine our indicators and methodologies in response to industry developments and our own exacting standards.
We have developed new indicators for measuring scientific impact, open access publications, multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, research related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, emerging fields of science and the uptake of science in policy, to name but a few. We are also highly experienced in developing and testing complex composite indicators and reporting on their strengths and limitations. In the course of one large-scale project, we also developed and refined a journal-based classification of science, which we now use in almost all our projects, further details here.
We help analysts, policymakers and advisors develop customized metrics and studies to assess and demonstrate S&T impacts and trends. Past examples of our customized indicator development are linked below.
Email us to discuss your particular assessment, evaluation or policy outcome needs and how we can design a suite of indicators to answer your study questions.
Example projects
Women's participation in science
Modelling the effects of open access, gender and collaboration on citation outcomes: Replicating, expanding and drilling
Development of bibliometric indicators to measure women’s contribution to scientific publications
She Figures 2015: Comprehensive methodology – New research & innovation output indicators
Cross-disciplinarity
Bibliometrics: a powerful tool for evaluating the quality of science
A large-scale validation of the relationship between cross-disciplinary research and its uptake in policy-related documents, using the novel Overton altmetrics database
Measuring funding programs achievements in fostering cross-disciplinarity research: The potential role of integration and collaboration indicators in capturing distinct support mechanisms
Evaluation of the Belmont Forum
Open access publications
Bibliometrics indicators for the Science and Engineering Indicators 2026 – Technical documentation
Bibliometrics indicators for the Science and Engineering Indicators 2024 – Technical documentation
Bibliometrics indicators for the Science and Engineering Indicators 2022 – Technical documentation
Open access availability of scientific publications
Sustainable Development Goals
Provision and analysis of key indicators in research and innovation: Final Report
Provision and analysis of key indicators in research and innovation: Final study approach report and methods
Provision and analysis of key indicators in research and innovation: Policy briefs on the SDGs