About
The Research Career Narrative Writer by ResBench narrativises verifiable evidence of past performance. It prepares detailed, well-substantiated research career narratives for Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE) sections of grant applications, and for the research sections of job and promotion applications, using first-person or third-person pronouns according to user requirements. The narratives look to the past: they draw on documented achievement to demonstrate a researcher's current capability, not proposed or future research activity. By completing steps set out in the Research Career Narrative Writer, users will obtain draft texts on contributions to field(s) (informed by user-supplied research outputs' abstracts and the ARC's Grants Dataset), research impact (leveraging user-supplied Overton and Altmetric data), succinct mentoring and leadership narratives (based on user-supplied Google Scholar data, ORCID profile, and the ARC's Grants Dataset), research outputs' context (incorporating user-supplied SciVal and Google Scholar data), and precise annotations for career-best research outputs (also informed by abstracts), complete with output-level bibliometrics and altmetrics from various sources. By transforming complex bibliometric and altmetric data into coherent research career narratives, the assistant helps researchers save time, enhance narrative quality, and support compliance with funder and institutional guidelines and prevailing sector norms.
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Access to Research Career Narrative Writer is available by purchase of a voucher. To continue, please purchase a voucher and redeem it on this page. Once redeemed, the voucher will unlock full access to the assistant's features for the duration specified.
Texts generated during periods of active access remain available to the user in the library after the access and voucher have expired. These materials may be accessed and downloaded at any time without the purchase of an additional voucher. Users are responsible for retaining copies of downloaded materials for their own records.
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To use Research Career Narrative Writer effectively, users should have, or support researchers who have, a verifiable research track record, including on ORCiD (essential), as well as the ability to retrieve evidence of research performance from four specific bibliometrics and altmetrics suppliers: Google Scholar (essential), plus access to Altmetric Explorer, Overton, and SciVal (recommended).
At a minimum, users should have a Google Scholar profile with 10 or more cited research outputs. The biogrpahy field should be populated on ORCiD. SciVal data are most informative when users have a sufficiently large track record of Scopus-indexed outputs—typically 20 or more—so that field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) values are not disproportionately affected by individual outliers. Overton and Altmetric Explorer are most useful where outputs have attracted news, patent, and/or policy mentions, as these sources enable the assistant to narrativise extra-academic engagement, outcomes, and impact.
The time required for the interaction with Research Career Narrative Writer will vary depending on each user's familiarity with third-party bibliometric and altmetric suppliers' platforms. Detailed instructions are provided by the assistant.
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