Assessing Research Productivity

It can often be difficult to gauge researcher productivity and impact, but these measures of effectiveness are important for academic institutions and funding sources to consider in allocating limited scientific resources and funding. Here, Neill et al propose a new bibliometric method to assess the body of a researcher's published work, based on relevant information collected from the Scopus database and Journal Citation Reports. This method does not require intricate programming, and it yields a graphical representation of data to visualize the publication output of researchers from disparate backgrounds at different stages in their careers.