Discovery tools and research assessment solutions

APRIL 2012

Shahrooz SharifrazyRegional Sales Manager

Thomson Reuters: Supporting the entire academic enterprise

Over 50 Years Of Experience In Citation Indexing, Analysis, And Metrics

• In 1955, Dr. Eugene Garfield revolutionized research with his concept of citation indexing and searching, giving birth to the Science Citation Index®

• Web of Science is the largest citation database with over 800 million cited references from 1900 to 2010

• Thomson Reuters introduced the first ever research evaluation tool on the Web

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DiscoveryTools

Web of Science – key benefits

Evaluated authoritative content– Thomson Reuters specialists evaluate journals of 3300 publishers– Ongoing Independent and publisher-neutral evaluation of all types

of journal• Journals from commercial publishers• Academic society journals• Open Access journals• Electronic only journals etc.

Truly Multidisciplinary– Journals are selected to provide coverage of all fields of scholarly research

– 11,800 journals in 249 subject categories– 7,890 journals in the hard sciences– Social sciences – 2,690 journals– Arts & humanities –1,470 journals

– More than 12,000 conferences annually.– 30 000 Books in the Book Citation Index– > 57 million unique records (largest citation database)

Web of Science – key benefits

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DiversityDepth &

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DiscoveryTools

For up to date info see: http://wokinfo.com/realfacts/

Cover to cover indexing of all Journals

All cited references, back to 1900 ( > 700 million searchable cited references)

Indexing of 100% of available cited references (enables to perform analyses on literature that is not indexed)

The largest citation database available

Web of Science – key benefits

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Science Citation Index 7,890 Titles

SSCI 2,690 Titles

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A&HCI 1,470 Titles 1975

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• Thomson Reuters captures all formal Cited References for all records• All author names captured, including the full name when available• Authors are linked to addresses making the affiliation clear• All addresses are captured• Funding Acknowledgements are captured for easy identification of grant based research and commercial interests

Web of Science – key benefits

Funding Acknowledgements are not available on the full archive.

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DiversityDepth &

Consistency QualityData

DiscoveryTools

Web of Science – key benefits

Searching and navigation via citations to discover unique research and evaluate the impact of research

Visualization & reporting tools help identify trends and generate reports• Analyze & Refine tools, Citation Report, Citation Map• EndNote Web, ResearcherID

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Discovery& Analyzing

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The Citation index, a discovery tool

Search

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Assess

Search the Web of Science

Citations links to discover publications

Citations links to discover publications

Funding information

Analyze results for detailed analysis such as collaborator identification

Analyze results for detailed analysis such as collaborator identification

Analysis Tools

Instant Citation Reports to easily evaluate impcat and identify research trends

Instant Citation Reports to easily evaluate impcat and identify research trends

Visualize citations using the Citation Map. Identify trends and track research pathways

Visualize citations using the Citation Map. Identify trends and track research pathways

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Save time, using Web of Knowledge personal profiles

Combine and build complex searches.

Save your searches and create unlimited number of alerts (RSS/email) for automated current awarness

Combine and build complex searches.

Save your searches and create unlimited number of alerts (RSS/email) for automated current awarness

Journals

Web of Science

Proceedings

BibliometricTools

Journal Citation ReportsIncites

Custom analytics

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How can we demonstrate return on investment for our research activities? What are our centers of excellence?

How does our research performance compare to our peer institutions? What are the trends?

How can we identify and promote outstanding or up-and-coming researchers?

How can we minimize burden on faculty for capturing data for promotion and review?

How can we promote our research accomplishments and encourage research collaborations?

How can we streamline regular reporting tasks? (e.g. CVs, annual review, accreditation, and grant biosketches)

Key questions

Custom Data, Reports, Analysis & Interpretation

Analytic & Benchmarking Tools

Enterprise Information Management Systems

You set the parameters and we deliver raw data or a finished report tailored to your requirements

Regularly monitor activities and trends in a web-based environment you can access from anywhere

A hosted system that integrates data with an analytic interface for reporting activities

• Populate an internal system with high quality, reliable data

• Get expert analysis and interpretation to answer a specific question or set of questions

• Pinpoint influential and emerging researchers and monitor collaboration

• Benchmark your institution against others worldwide

• Examine measures on more than 30 indicators including reputation, funding, publications, staff and students

• Supports annual review, faculty expertise search, administrative and strategic reporting.

• Provide faculty with a one-stop resource for collecting and reporting on scholarly activities

THOMSON REUTERS RESEARCH ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

Providing a continuum of products, tools, and services for performance evaluation, research management and decision support across your entire organization.

Custom solutionsCustom solutions IncitesIncites Research In ViewResearch In View

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US National Science Foundation Science & Engineering Indicators

European Commission:

European Union Science & Technology Indicators

Also used by government entities in France, Australia, Italy, Japan, UK, Portugal, Norway, Spain, Belgium, South Korea, Canada, and more, to shape higher education policy.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings”powered by Thomson Reuters”

Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement

Research AnalyticsThe Thomson Reuters Data FoundationThomson Reuters’ publication and citation metrics are an important piece of many published research assessments throughout the world.

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InCites is a web-based research evaluation tool designed to track trends on the field, country, and institution level, to enable detailed bibliometric analysis and reporting on the publications important to you.

All metrics and analyses can be performed on any subset of the data

• An entire institution

• One researcher

• Group of researchers (e.g. a department)

• Field of research within your institution

• Topic of research within your institution

• A collaboration partnership within your institution

• Funding

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Contextualization of citation counts, benchmarking

Small number of Publications/Citations, but strong impact

Discover influential, emerging researchers & trends

Small number of Publications/Citations, but strong impact

Discover influential, emerging researchers & trends

Identify areas for growth and investmentIdentify areas for growth and investment

Research Performance Profiles1

Multiple indicators = Multiple angles

Multiple answers to multiple very specific

Key questions

Multiple answers to multiple very specific

Key questions

Our indicators are transparent, simple, reproducible, powerful.Our indicators are transparent, simple, reproducible, powerful.

Research Performance Profiles1

Who are our most productive and influential researchers?

You can generate a summary of all metrics related to one researcher papers, or any other group of publications.

You can generate a summary of all metrics related to one researcher papers, or any other group of publications.

Metrics such as the self citation levels and the collaborations give us a very granular

insight into someone’s publications

Metrics such as the self citation levels and the collaborations give us a very granular

insight into someone’s publications

Research Performance Profiles1

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Which collaboration is leading to research with the greatest impact?

Research Performance Profiles1

In which field are we publishing the most?In which field do we have the strongest average impact?In which field(s) are we better than our peers?

In which field are we publishing the most?In which field do we have the strongest average impact?In which field(s) are we better than our peers?

How can we identify our strengths and weaknesses in different disciplines?

« Peers » = researchers/institutions/countries publishing the same type of documents, at the same time, and in the same field« Peers » = researchers/institutions/countries publishing the same type of documents, at the same time, and in the same field

Where is our research funding coming from?Are these funding generating good impact?

The big picture. International comparisons

Countries and Institutions can be compared across multiple sets of

subject categories

Countries and Institutions can be compared across multiple sets of

subject categories

Global Comparisons2

Global Comparisons

Compare any country/region in any subject category across the past 30 years

Compare any country/region in any subject category across the past 30 years

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Global Comparisons

Compare particular research areas for different

international universities

Multiple indicators and graphical representations

Multiple angles

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Institutional Profiles

A dynamic web-based resource presenting portraits of over 560 world’s leading academic institutions

A dynamic web-based resource presenting portraits of over 560 world’s leading academic institutions

Robust, quality data about all aspects of Higher Education for evidence based decisions makingRobust, quality data about all aspects of Higher Education for evidence based decisions making

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Create research footprints to profile, compare and trend institutions across

multiple indicators

Create research footprints to profile, compare and trend institutions across

multiple indicators

Institutional Profiles3

Faculty size, reputation, funding, citation measures

and more

Faculty size, reputation, funding, citation measures

and more

More than just publication/citation information

Combinations of bibliometric and institutional data can create new and unique indicators.

More Indicators. More Comparisons. More Comprehension.

Combinations of bibliometric and institutional data can create new and unique indicators.

More Indicators. More Comparisons. More Comprehension.

Institutional Profiles3

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