2. 2
Standards and Best Practices for
Alternative Assessment Metrics
ResearchResearch
ObjectObject
ResearchResearch
ObjectObject MetricsMetricsMetricsMetrics
• Many things that we
discuss today
• Unique Identifiers for
• Research Object
• Author
• Institution
• Funder
• Many things that we
discuss today
3. 3
Unique identifiers for
publications
Unique identifiers for data
Unique identifiers for
researchers
Unique identifiers for
institutions
Linking all this information
together in global databases
Linking all this information
together locally
Strategies for Connecting Researchers
and Research
4. PLOS is linking these unique identifiers
to all their Article-Level Metrics
Articles CrossRef
Data DataCite
People ORCID
Institutions
Ringgold/ISN
I
Funders and
Grants
FundRef