Pursuing a multidimensional path to research assessment – Elsevier’s approach to metrics

The Metric Tide report calls for the responsible use of metrics. As a supplier of data and metrics to the scholarly community, Elsevier supports this approach and agrees that metrics should support human judgment and not replace it, writes Peter Darroch. To be used effectively, there needs to be a broad range of metrics generated by academia and industry which can be generated automatically and for any entity of interest.