Table 2.

Relative weight of the criteria and sub-criteria

Criteria	Criteria weights	Sub-criteria	Local weights of sub-criteria	Global weight of sub-criteriaa
Citation metrics	0.45	Citation count	0.17	0.08
		Field-weighted citation impact	0.54	0.25
		Citation benchmarking	0.29	0.13
Engagement metrics	0.27	Scholarly activity	0.47	0.13
		Social activity	0.26	0.07
		Scholarly commentary	0.17	0.05
		Mass media	0.11	0.03
Scientific collaboration metrics	0.18	National versus international collaboration	0.17	0.03
		Single-discipline versus cross-discipline collaboration	0.54	0.10
		Academia versus industrial affiliation collaboration	0.29	0.05
Educational metrics	0.09	Usability of the research paper for undergraduate students	0.33	0.03
		Usability of the research paper for graduate students	0.67	0.06

^aThe global weights of a sub-criterion is obtained by multiplying the local weight of that sub-criterion by the weight of the main criterion to which it belongs. For instance the global weights of “citation count” in obtained by multiplying the weight of “citation metrics” (0.45) by the local weight of “citation count” (0.17) or: 0.45 × 0.17 = 0.08