Table 2.

Bibliometric indicators presented to the selection panels in the three NIHR-commissioned competitions being examined in this study (SI 2014, CLAHRCs 2014 and BRCs/BRUs 2012)

Bibliometric indicator	SI 2014	CLAHRCs 2014	BRCs/BRUs 2012
Volume (e.g. number of submitted publications, number of publications that could be analysed)	√	√	√
Normalised publication citation impact (e.g. ‘Mean Normalised Citation Score or MNCS; ‘Average of Relative Citations’ or ARC)	√	√	√
Normalised journal citation impact (e.g. ‘Mean Normalised Journal Score’ or MNJS; ‘Average of Relative Impact Factor’ or ARIF)	–	√	√
Number or proportion of ‘Highly Cited Publications’ (HCPs)	√	√	√
Ranks associated with some or all of the above indicators of impact	√	√	√
Presence of the applicant in the top X% of the applicant pool (e.g. top 5%, top 10%, 1st quartile, etc.) based on their bibliometric indicator ranks	√	√	–
‘Appliedness’ indicators to provide a ‘proxy’ measure of the level of application of the research	–	√	–
Research output and citation impact by bibliometric field for each applicant	–	√	√
List of applicants that merit ‘special attention’ from the selection panel and the reasons for this	√	–	–

When a particular bibliometric indicator was not presented to the selection panel to inform their judgement (e.g. it was not required as part of the competition), it is represented by a dash in the table