When you apply for a grant through the ARC you will be faced with the Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence Statement (ROPE). Based on the criteria for the ROPE statement you will need to demonstrate:
- Research outputs: add your track record overview at the beginning to show your academic impact. The following metrics can be used for the statement.
- Number of publications and where they have been published (journal metrics and ranking), indicate highly cited papers
- Total citations and citations per paper
- h-index and/or Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
- Who cited the papers (from highly ranked universities and top researchers).
- Auto-populate research outputs: link your ORCID account with the ARC’s Research Management System (RMS) to import a list of research outputs. .
- Policy development and advice: find citations of your research outputs from policy documents to demonstrate how your research influenced policy development.
- Research impact: include the use of your research that achieved environmental, cultural, social, or economic changes or improvements. For example, if your research or publications are used in patents or outside of academia.
- Research collaboration: use collaboration metrics to show how you collaborated internationally and with industry.
