Most metrics reward research. This one is built for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. Enter an ORCID — or a university — to be placed on a 1–7 SoTL spectrum, fully decomposed into five dimensions. Built from open OpenAlex data, in your browser. A reflection tool — never a ranking of people.
Built on DORA, by design
The h-index and journal quartiles are exactly what DORA argues against — pure citation counts, blind to field (so teaching scholars always look "low" next to lab scientists) and blind to everything teaching scholarship actually produces. The SoTL Index answers that: it field-normalises, it values openness and teaching focus over journal prestige, and it shows every component so it can never become a single hidden number. It measures a body of scholarly work — not a person's worth, and not their teaching itself, which no bibliographic tool can see.
An institutional profile from a sample of recent outputs. Collaboration & sustained-contribution are author-level, so the uni view focuses on reach, openness & SoTL focus.
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How the SoTL Index is built — and what it is not
Public outputs are read from OpenAlex (open bibliographic data) via the ORCID or institution. Five dimensions, each scored 0–100, then mapped to a 1–7 developmental spectrum (you can re-weight every dimension live) — a spectrum, not a precise score, because reducing a scholar to a fine-grained rank is exactly what DORA cautions against: Reach — citations per output, normalised to the author's primary field so teaching/education scholars are judged fairly, not against lab sciences. Openness — share of outputs that are open access. SoTL focus — share of outputs that are genuinely teaching-&-learning scholarship (recognised SoTL/higher-education journals + education-tagged work). Collaboration — breadth of the co-authorship network. Sustained contribution — consistency of scholarly output over time. Grounded in Boyer's scholarship of teaching, Glassick's standards and DORA. It is an open, in-development instrument for reflection — not SCImago, Scopus or Clarivate; not a measure of a person's worth or their teaching; and explicitly not a tool for ranking individuals against each other. Calibration constants are deliberately transparent and will be refined with the sector. NTLSN is independent of OpenAlex and all metric providers. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is stored.