Institutions
PLOS Article-Level Metrics: informing your decision-makers.
Looking for an effective tool to help with hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions? Use Article-Level Metrics (ALM) for a granular, comprehensive view of a researcher’s past and current work. These easy-to-understand metrics reflect real-time, up-to-date measures of a researcher’s impact and output, and help your institution make solid staffing decisions.
Plus, you can aggregate and analyze the suite of ALM according to your institution’s needs, whether for internal departmental reporting or external institutional research assessment exercises.
How a research institution get involved?
- Incorporate ALM into your institution’s research assessment exercises
- Ask researchers to report their article-level metrics in all professional evaluation activities (hiring, promotion, etc.)
- Inform your academic department of the value of article-level metrics
- Encourage display of ALM across departmental researcher and laboratory pages
- Feature relevant metrics when showcasing noteworthy researchers
- Enlist your librarians to communicate the value of ALM in their work with researchers
- Adopt ALM for articles in your institutional repository
- Contact us at alm@plos.org and tell us how you’ve used ALM at your institution