Research Analysis and Your Institution: Using Analysis Tools

RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND YOUR INSTITUTION: USING ANALYSIS TOOLS

ALA Annual MeetingWashington D.C.

June 2010

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Communicating the “success” of research can be complicated, multi-faceted, with subjective factors included.

Therefore reliable, objective information is extremely valuable in research evaluation exercises.

The Research Assessment “Need”: Objective Information for both Institution

and Individual to Reveal Influence/Success and Support Decision-making

We know that a “Citation” to published work is an acknowledgement of an intellectual debt to that work, evidence of it’s influence.

“Bibliometrics” or “citation metrics” have in fact become a critical piece in research assessment exercises.

Citation Metrics

Awards and Honors

Funding data

Peer review

Today, the ranking of universities and research programs is done worldwide, by a various organizations.

In almost all cases, Thomson Reuters’ publication and citation data, from Web of Science, forms the basis of their bibliometric analyses.

Research AnalyticsThe Thomson Reuters Foundation

Research AnalyticsThe Thomson Reuters Foundation

It is essential to have a consistent, authoritative, and clearly defined body of data to create meaningful and dependable statistics.

This is “why” Web of Science as an unmatched data source:– The gold standard citation resource, used by over 4,100 institutions in

more than 91 countries

– A comprehensive resource covering over 11,600 journals and thousands of conference proceedings in the fields of Science, Social Science, Arts and Humanities

– Selected content using unbiased, time tested and detailed journal selection processes

– Unmatched retrospective depth of citation data – that which would be required to assess research published over a 30 year career.

– Web of Science is also the source of the Impact Factor -- the most widely accepted indicator of journal performance

For many years Thomson Reuters has provided a wide range of tools and services supporting accurate and effective research evaluation.

Our specialist work with Web of Science data and ensure maximum collection and unification before delivery.

Thomson Reuters Processing Expertise

Research Analytics Resources

Data

Address Unification

Data Cleansing & Standardization

Normalization and Baselines

Web of Science

Thomson Reuters Research Analytics: the Source and Foundation

Thomson Reuters presentation of not just simple counts and averages, but real “metrics” founded on baselines for comparison have lead many organizations worldwide to depend on these resources to support decision-making.

But, how “good” is this?

What is the context?

Avg. Cites Per Paper

3.2

5.7

7.8

10.5

13.3

Web of Science itself is an extremely valuable “intelligence” resource – a tool for characterizing and gauging published

output and influence for institutions, individuals, countries, etc. – indispensible for basic comparisons.

Thomson Reuters Research Analytics: “Real Metrics”

Relative Performance

At-a-Glance

With a baseline of 1.0 for each, you immediately have a gauge of the level of influence of an author’s collective

works compared other published work in the field.

For Your Institution – Authors


For Your Institution – Peer Institution Comparisons

Always a baseline of 1.0 for ratios and “relative” metrics.


What is “InCites”?

Customer defined data sets providing article-

level source records and related detail. This is

most typically comprised of papers associated

with a particular Institution, but can also

be “topic” defined.

Summary information and metrics on published output and performance at the the institution and

country level.

InCites - Global Comparisons - Institutions

Customer defined data sets providing article-

level source records and related detail. This is

most typically comprised of papers associated

with a particular Institution, but can also

be “topic” defined.

InCites -- “Research Performance Profiles”

For researchers and within your organization, evaluate the influence of their published research.


Explore the diversity of research output, comparing influence across disciplines


With which Institutions are your faculty collaborating, and which collaborations yield the most influential research?


June 2010 enhancements provide more function for use of very customized author-based data sets within InCites.


RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND YOUR INSTITUTION: USING ANALYSIS TOOLS

ALA Annual MeetingWashington D.C.

June 2010

Research Analysis and Your Institution: Using Analysis Tools

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