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Guidelines

• INORMS Research Evaluation Group (REG) - ensures that research evaluation is meaningful, responsible, and effective
• Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics - proposes 10 principles for the measurement of research performance 
• The Metric Tide - a report by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - places emphasis on and communicates the need to improve the methods in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated

Metrics Tools

• Altmetric - provides free tools to track alternative metrics online
• Dimensions - this free version provides analytics of publications and datasets across all disciplines
• HumetricsHSS Initiative - emphasizes measuring the value of research instead of evaluating traditional, quantitative measures
• ImpactStory - an open-source website that helps researchers explore and share the the online impact of their research
• Metrics Toolkit - free, evidence-based resource developed to help scholars and evaluators understand and responsibly use citations, web metrics, and alternative metrics in the evaluation of research
• Scholarometer - a platform to facilitate citation analysis to evaluate the impact of an author's publications.