Observed arrival · 2026-11-07
Easier Promotion turns academic metrics into a promotion case
A tool for academics and their supporters to gather citation metrics from multiple databases and prepare a promotion evidence report.
- For
- Academics preparing promotion cases and their mentors
- Worth noticing
- Its checklist lets users enter institution-specific promotion criteria and automatically checks measurable ones.
Field notes
The described workflow combines citation sources with field-relative comparisons, career-stage comparisons, and progress since appointment or the last promotion. Users can enter their institution’s criteria, star representative papers, and add their own account of why those papers matter. The homepage also describes profile checks for missing papers, namesake records, mismatched IDs, and high self-citation; the displayed example explicitly labels its figures as illustrative.
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