Can you explain in more detail how the bibliometric analysis and this normalisation process will work?
The Research Field categories used in the online form are only used to group the results of bibliometric analysis of individuals’ research output. Setting to one side for the purposes of this answer the complexity of papers that fall in multiple categories, each paper that an applicant submits will fall into a particular subject-based ISI journal set. This could be any of the over 250 ISI subject categories and need not be related to the subject category into which the applicant places him or herself (The ISI Journal Subject Categories are a sensible level of aggregation for analysis given that as field size decreases the number of papers in the field decreases so the robustness of the averages falls). Each paper is compared against the other papers in this subject-based ISI journal set. This reveals how well cited it is compared to the field and whether it is particularly highly cited in the field (for example in the top 10% of citations). This analysis is then repeated for each paper
