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Identifying Research Competencies and Implications for Research Planning
Brie Betz | A&G Products | Elsevier | +1 212 633 3712 | [email protected] | 31 May 2010
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications for Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications for Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
4
• Crosses national boundaries
• Overarches multi-jurisdictional regulation
• Networks energetically in real and virtual space and time
• Straddles between competition and collaboration
• Exhibits high mobility of resources, people, ideas, technologies and infrastructure
• Responds and reacts to public and private pressures
THE NEW REALITY OF RESEARCH TODAY
MEASURING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
Challenges Approach
Understanding interidisciplinary
research activities
• Currently, rely on the journal-
level subject classifications
Article-level classification
• To understand interdisciplinary
research activities
Understanding research activities
conducted at a granular level
• Subject areas defined too broadly
Co-citation clusters represent specific
research problems
• To identify research activity
at a granular level
Need to understand strategic
implications for research planning
• Research environment is
increasingly competitive
Visualized research strengths at
national and/or institutional level
• Comprehensive and strategic
understanding
VARIOUS DATA AVAILABLE TO IDENTIFY OVERALL RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Source: Scopus, Analysis
Number of Publications
2004-2008 Subject Areas
AAGR
9.48%
Total
40,102
Papers
(2004-2008)
CONFIRM UNIQUE RESEARCH STRENGTHS
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH AREAS
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES BIOTECHNOLOGY
INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
BIOLOGY
EARTH SCIENCES
ENGINEERING
CHEMISTRY
MATH & PHYSICS COMPUTER SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
BRAIN RESEARCH
HEALTH SCIENCES
GLOBAL RESEARCH COMPETENCY
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2008
HUMANITIES
UNDERSTAND RESEARCH POTENTIAL
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2008
GR
OW
TH
RELATIVE PUBLICATION SHARE
HIGH
LOW HIGH LOW
NATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSES
National Level Institutional Level
“Looking at the map is good … but can’t we do anything more using the data?”
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications for Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
IMPLICATIONS: FUNDING
Challenges faced
by research executives
“We need to gain more competitive funding from the government, but how?”
“Are we making use of all the opportunities we have to gain funds?”
“What objective reasons can we provide when requesting funding?”
Methodology
Research Competencies
Award data
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2008
STEP 1: IDENTIFY RESEARCH COMPETENCIES
Researcher Keywords
43
22
4 7
24
46
16
55 12
35
47
11
#
11 Life Science-related Competencies Details for each competency
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007
# Fund
2006-7 Fund
2008-9 Who What When ¥
STEP 2: IDENTIFY FUNDING PER COMPETENCY
4
7
11
12
16
22
24
43
46
47
55
37.8
18.9
16.6
6.8
21.3
41.5
0
3.2
18.7
0
0
6.6
17.3
0
3.8
6.6
0
0
8.8
84.6
0
0
-
-
-
Per Top Researcher Per Competency
⊿
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007, Japanese Funding Database
SIX UNDERFUNDED RESEARCH AREAS IDENTIFIED Change in amount of funds
gained between 06/07 and 08/09
Positioning of research area
within strength portfolio
Strengths in Life science related subject areas
n=11
Underfunded strength areas
n=6
3
3
5
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Increase in funds or
ongoing project
Decrease in funds from
06/07 to 08/09
No funds gained in 2008/9
3 High growth area,
however low publication share
Relatively low growth area, however high
publication share 3
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007, analysis
(%)
TAKE AWAY: MAXIMIZE AWARD POTENTIAL
Gaps between areas of research strength and well-funded
research areas were identified from analysis
Underfunded research areas where funding is decreasing or
getting little funding also had good objective reason (high growth
or high publication share) to apply for further funding
Manual analysis using SciVal Spotlight data can provide various
insight to further increase funding
“Gaining research funding is getting competitive year by year.
We need to utilize any information available to maintain and
further increase our competitiveness.” (Vice President, Japanese University)
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications to Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
IMPLICATIONS: COLLABORATION Challenges faced
by research executives
“How can we identify our interdisciplinary strengths and the faculty that are contributing to these research areas?”
“Are there different approaches to
interdisciplinary research that we are supporting?”
“How can we scale these contributions as
‘best practices’ across our institution?”
Methodology
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007
COMPARE COMPETENCY DISTRIBUTION
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH APPROACHES
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007
Collaboration leaders
•Active, influential, and innovative
•Strong network across campus –
“super-connectors”
•Two distinct approaches to
interdisciplinary research
TAKE AWAY: SUPPORT CONNECTIVITY
•Funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health encourage
“interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research”,* so supporting cross-
disciplinary initiatives may benefit a university by way of increased funding and
publication success.
Manual analysis using SciVal Spotlight data can provide insight into:
Understanding overall collaboration activities within an institution and
with external research partners
Status of research areas where collaboration is happening today
Identify opportunities for future collaboration
Monitoring these results over time can provide university management
further insight into strategic research planning
Source: In reference to Research Project Grants (RO1) from http://grants.nih.gov/
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications to Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
IMPLICATIONS: TALENT ALLOCATION Challenges faced
by research executives
“Do we have the right researcher in the right team? How can we figure that out?”
“Which talent are we lacking in each of the research teams?”
“Which researcher should be the leader of a new multi-disciplinary research team?”
Methodology
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2008
“FIND”
SEARCH FOR PRESENCE OF FACULTY
Find authors, keywords, or disciplines Result
OVERALL RESULT
62
24 44
14
4
0
20
40
60
80
100 Five Areas
(1 researcher)
Four Areas (1 researcher)
Three Areas (4 researchers)
Two Areas (14 researchers)
One Area (24 researchers)
(%)
Researcher present in map
Not found from search
Overall search result
(n=106)
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007, Analysis
Number of competencies
each researcher contributes to (n=44)
ALLOCATION OF STRENGTHS
1 2 6 13 40 43 45 48 49 52 61 64 74 77 80 102 104 107
Competency Number
Group
A
Group
B
Group A: Researcher with same/similar strength
Group B: How to allocate talent for multi-disciplinary group
Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007, Analysis
TAKE AWAY: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Search function in SciVal Spotlight can help identify “which” competency and
“how many” competencies each individual researcher is involved in
A researcher involved in multiple competencies might be
a good candidate to lead interdisciplinary research groups
Result from these analysis and internal discussion with research managers can
provide insight into how to further improve talent allocation
“I am quite amazed that the result is reflecting the reality of our organization! This evidence can help us to facilitate discussion with each research group.” (Director General, Government research institution)
AGENDA Background / Introduction
Implications to Research Planning
o Funding
o Collaboration
o Talent Allocation
Summary
SUMMARY
Measuring research performance is inherently challenging
Emerging areas of research
Interdisciplinary activity
Transnational initiatives
Manual analysis using data from Spotlight can help with objective and
informed decision-making
Funding: Identify underfunded research competencies and use
information in Spotlight in future grant applications
Collaboration: Monitor collaboration activities within and outside of an
institution and identify future collaboration areas with global leaders
Talent Allocation: Identify interdisciplinary talent and reflect to
strategic allocation of talent to facilitate HR discussions
…. and many more