Easier Promotion
For academics going for promotion, and the people who support them
Easier Promotion gathers your citations from Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and OpenAlex, puts them in the context of your field and career, and turns them into a clear, printable evidence report.
No institutional login needed to start. Add your Google Scholar profile and we do the rest.
Stop copying numbers between databases. See which of your papers stand out in their field, what you've achieved since your last promotion, and how you compare with researchers at a similar stage. Then download a report and a first-draft narrative to build on.
Heads of department, mentors and research managers can track several academics in one account, see where each stands against the criteria for their next grade, and spot gaps early, well before the promotion round.
Citations, h-index and i10-index from Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and OpenAlex side by side, with a history every time you refresh.
Field-weighted citation impact and the share of your papers in the top 10% and top 1% of their field, so the numbers are fair across disciplines.
See where you sit among researchers in the same field, with similar output or a similar career length, as a percentile panels understand.
Papers, citations and top-10% papers since your appointment or last promotion, the question most panels ask first.
Star your representative papers and say in your own words why each one matters. They flow into the report and the narrative.
Enter your institution's criteria for each grade. Measurable ones are checked automatically; record evidence against the rest.
Catch missing papers, a namesake's papers in your profile, mismatched IDs or high self-citation before a panel does.
The countries, institutions and journals citing your work: evidence of international reach.
A printable evidence report, plus an AI-drafted research narrative written only from your evidence, with gaps marked for you to fill.
Type your name to find your OpenAlex record and ORCID, then paste your Google Scholar profile link. Add colleagues the same way.
Your figures arrive in about a minute. Star your key papers, add your promotion dates and target grade, and work through the checklist.
Print or save the evidence report as a PDF, copy the narrative draft into your case, and refresh before you submit.
Metrics should support a case, never replace judgement about the work. Easier Promotion follows the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA): it leads with field-normalised measures, shows where every figure comes from and when it was collected, flags the limits of each source, and keeps the focus on your own account of your work.
No. Google Scholar and OpenAlex work for everyone, and OpenAlex provides the field-normalised and peer comparisons. Scopus and Web of Science figures are added where the service has access to them.
Each one indexes different material. Google Scholar includes books, theses and preprints, so it's usually highest; Web of Science is the most selective. The report shows each source separately and explains this, so a panel can read them fairly.
Yes. One account can track up to 25 academics, which suits heads of department, mentors and research managers. Each account sees only the academics it added.
From public bibliometric sources: Google Scholar profiles, OpenAlex, and the Scopus and Web of Science databases. We store the figures we fetch, plus anything you add yourself, such as notes and criteria.
Only you, when you're signed in. Your notes, criteria and drafts are never shared. You can download your data or delete your account, and everything in it, at any time. See the privacy notice.
The first draft is, from the evidence on your page only. It leaves bracketed gaps for things it can't know, such as grants or impact. Treat it as a starting point and make it your own.
It takes about two minutes to add yourself and see your figures.
Create your free account