Enter an ORCID — or a whole university — and see an open, field-normalised journal-quartile profile of the research outputs: the Q1–Q4 spread, the open-access share, and the reach. Built entirely from open OpenAlex data, in your browser. Nothing is stored.
Read this first — quartiles rate the journal, not the work
A journal quartile measures where a journal sits among its peers — never the quality, worth or productivity of a person or a paper. A Q4 journal can carry landmark work; a Q1 journal can carry weak work. NTLSN shows this profile for reflection and context only, in the spirit of DORA — the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, signed by the ARC and most Australian universities — which calls for an end to using journal-based metrics as a proxy for individual research quality. Please use it in that spirit.
Builds a profile from the institution's most-published journals (top 200 by output volume). A sector-level mirror, not a ranking of people.
Reading open records…
Where the work sits — by journal quartile
How this is calculated — and what it is not
We read public outputs from OpenAlex (open bibliographic data) via the ORCID or institution, match each journal article to its journal, and place that journal in a quartile by its 2-year mean citedness, normalised within its primary field of research — so a journal is only ever compared with others in its own discipline. Quartile cut-points come from a 7,000-journal reference sample of active, citing journals (OpenAlex, mid-2026). This is an open approximation. It is not SCImago SJR, Scopus CiteScore or Clarivate JIF, and may differ from a journal's "official" quartile elsewhere. Books, chapters, conference papers and repository deposits are counted in the profile but are not quartile-ranked. NTLSN is independent and not affiliated with OpenAlex, SCImago, Scopus or Clarivate. Everything runs in your browser — your ORCID is sent only to OpenAlex's public API to fetch the public record; nothing is stored or sent anywhere else.