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This month, Research England revealed Clarivate Analytics™ as the company who will be supplying assessment panels with citation data for REF2021 . The announcement marks a change from REF2014 when the data was provided by Clarivate's rival, Elsevier. What does this mean for REF? We know from previous guidance still out for consultation ( REF 2018/01 Section 281 ) that some panels will consider the number of times an item has been cited to aid their assessment of that output for the REF.  We now know the source of that data provided will be ISI Web of Science™ (WoS), a product owned by Clarivate Analytics™. We know that one source cannot tell the whole story about a research output, which is why panels will still use expert peer review as their primary means of assessment. However, for those disciplines where citation information is considered to be well represented in WoS, (namely Main Panels A and B ) it will be in the interest of those authors to ensure data about their out...