HORIZON 2020 VISION OF RESEARCH INFORMATION

Dr. Guillaume Rivalle, Strategic Business ManagerScientific & Scholarly Research Business

September 2012

Accelerating Research, Development & Innovation

THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH

THE POST WAR PERIOD THROUGH THE NEW MILLENNIUM

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THE POST WAR PERIOD

SCIENCE DRIVERS

•Huge influx of government funding into research and development following World War II

•Growing lag time in subject indexing of published findings

•Early stages of automation and computerization

ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•The Space Age Sputnik launched (1957) First man on moon (1969)

•First nuclear power plant (Obninsk, USSR)

•Discovery of spiral structure of DNA

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING

•First commercial computer (1951)

•Silicon transistor invented (1954)

•DEC PDP-1 (1960)

•Remote terminals via telephone connections

•Arpanet (1969)

CHARTING THE CITATION METRICS EVOLUTION

“IMPACT” METRICS

•Relate citation count to publication count

•Simple, well understood measures

•Journal Impact Factor, Immediacy Index

“H” FAMILY

•Based on rank-ordered publications

•Simple metrics rapidly evolving as issues become understood

•General metrics applicable to any list of cited publications (journals are one instance).

“INFLUENCE” METRICS

•Based on weightings within entire citation network structure

•Eigenfactor, Article Influence. SciMago Journal Rank (SJR)

THE OIL CRISIS ANDSPACE EXPLORATION

SCIENCE DRIVERS

•Truly large scale scientific projects

•Growth of European cooperation

•Growing resource scarcity & funding optimization

•Rise of environmentalism and energy scarcity

ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•Skylab, Salyut, and the Space Shuttle

•Robotic inter-planetary discovery Voyager program (1977+) Mars Vikings (1975)

•Consumer technology and personal computers

•VLSI integrated circuitry fabrication

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING

•PCs, GUIs, and mice

•C programming language

•Solid state memory

•First supercomputer

•Commercial fiber optics

WHAT ARE SOME DATA CHALLENGES WITH EVALUATING “BIG SCIENCE?”

Differences in citation curves at the category level

% oftotal

citationsto the

category

GLOBALIZATION AND THE BEGINNINGOF THE INFORMATION AGE

SCIENCE DRIVERS

•Removal of international barriers

•Large scale international collaboration

•Funding organization encouragement of collaboration

•Opportunities to use and share data via the world wide web

ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•Human Genome Project

•Widespread adoption of cell phones

•Hubble Space Telescope (1990)

•International Space Station (1996)

•Civilian Global Positioning System (1996)

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING

•The World Wide Web (1989+)

•PGP encryption (1991)

•Intel Pentium processor (1993)

•Linux kernel developed (1992-94)

GLOBAL COMPARISONS

Netherlands:35% increase over

10 years

Netherlands:35% increase over

10 years

HOW DO I BENCHMARK, RANK, AND ANALYZE MY INSTITUTION?

+20%

+24%

+36%

+11%

+56%

+32%

All of these institutions and countries impactsexceed the oncology average for this time period

CITATION METRICS

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Citation Metrics

Funding data

Peer review

Awards/Honors

Citation metrics are one piece of the research performance puzzle.

They complement other types of assessment.

WHAT DO WE REPORT?

Counts of, outputs, activities, funds

KPIsEfficiency

ProductivityOperational

Financial

Citation metrics

Time trends and changes

Relationships by citation or co authorship

Relative measures and Benchmarks

Peer Review

WHAT DO WE EVALUATE?

Region: Country, Territory ReputationRankings

Rising StarsSuccess Stories

Organization Level: University, Institute, Corporation, Funder

Person Level: Researcher, Team, Research Project

Item level: grant, paper, patent, award, activity

THE BUSINESS OF SCIENCE

SCIENCE DRIVERS

•Increased collaboration between academia, government and industry

•Academic research facilities seeking business oriented efficiencies

•Increasing growth in Asia

ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•First commercial Flash drives – 2000

•Wikipedia - 2001

•First self-contained artificial heart - 2001

•Mars Exploration Rovers - 2004

•Autonomous automobiles - 2005

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION PROCESSING

•Pervasive search technologies

•Semantic technologies

•Web 2.0

•Broadband proliferation

•“The Cloud”

Funding Pressures

Objective Approaches to Allocation of Credit

Reputation Management & Demonstration of Achievement

Global Competition

Changing Nature of Scholarly Journal Publishing

COMMON DRIVERS ACROSS SCIENCE

DATA IS GROWING

“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”

SCIENCE HAS GROWN ALMOST FASTER THAN OUR ABILITY TO KEEP UP

•Estimated 20,000 papers published daily

•Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) market size will grow from US $395M in 2008 to US $454M in 2013.

DATA IS GROWING – A RECENT IDC STUDY INDICATED THAT THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE GREW TO 1.2 ZB AND BY 2020 SHOULD BE TO 35 ZB

THE OPEN DATA COMMUNITY IS CONSTANTLY LAUNCHING NEW REPOSITORIES – THE NUMBER OF DATA SETS IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR

SELECTIVITY IS A MUST:

•Which articles should a researcher read?

•Which journals should a library subscribe to?

•Which projects and researchers should be funded?

DATA BASED DECISION MAKINGINCREASINGLY IMPORTANT

Neural NetworkDisplay of Eigenfactors for corpus of JCR journals

• Data accessibility• Large computations on large datasets• Visualizations

• Real time • In context• Open & widely

available

BIG DATA IS CHANGING OUR UNDERSTANDING

THOMSON INNOVATION THEMESCAPEAnalyzing large search results sets using term overlap and multidimensional scaling

mesurMapping usage downloads and citation

Expectations are changing...

Tools arechanging...

MANAGING THE BUSINESS OF SCIENCE

Demonstrating excellence, a multidimensional yet critical endeavor.

THOMSON REUTERS RESEARCH ANALYTICS

TOOLS THAT MEET CHANGING NEEDS

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EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA (ERA)

• An open space for knowledge and growth

• Encouraging gender diversity to foster science excellence and relevance

• More effective national research systems

• Boosting investment and promoting national competition

• Optimal transnational co-operation and competition

• Common research agendas, grand challenges, and infrastructures

• An open labour market for researchers

• Facilitating mobility supporting training and ensuring attractive careers

OUR BUSINESS

Scientific & Scholarly Research Life Sciences IP Solutions

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) & SCIENCE

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Innovation Lifecycle

CommercializationApplied Research Pla

nning

Basic Research

Fund

ing

DISCOVER DEVELOP DELIVER

Research

Collaboration

Research

Development

Protection

Exploitation

IP Cre

ation

Connecting the scientific community to the world’s

best science

Driving more effective and innovative research and

development

Commercializing and protecting the world’s

most valuable inventions

SOME KEY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• Launch of Research In View (w/ regular updates)

• Launch of Institutional Profiles module in Incites

• Launch of the Book Citation Index

• Integration of the Chinese science citation database in the Web of Knowledge

• Annual release of Journal Citation Reports®

• Regular, market driven releases to InCites product

• Link Research In View with InCites

• Extension of InCites APIs and Web Services

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ACHIEVING HORIZON 2020 GOALS

NEEDS• Identification and collaboration with

experts and peers

• Open and flexible infrastructures

• Access to expansive, reputable content & analytics

• Benchmarks and comparative indicators

• Data exchange standards

• Ongoing evaluation and measurement

• Decision support and strategic investment

• Track trends and growth

• Report

• Demonstrate Impact

SOLUTIONS• Integrate quality data into existing processes

and systems• Managing workflows associated with

publications, grants, evaluation and reporting

• Measure and benchmark the impact of your research activities and funding

• Guide strategic decision-making with best-in-class information, analytics and consulting

• Foster open collaboration and dissemination of research to advance scholarship

• Conduct robust evaluations with evolving indicators and new metrics

• Providing your teams with flexible, customized systems

HIGHLIGHTS OF UPCOMING DEVELOPMENTS

• Launch of the Data Citation Index

• Integration of the SciELO database to Web of Knowledge

• Launch Essential Science Indicators® on InCites

• Launch of a Journal Analysis Module for an open, neutral journal evaluation and analysis

• Launch of Analytics Solutions for Publishers and Funders

• Launch data research services with Cloud Based Metrics

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OUR LONG TERM VISION FOR OUR RESEARCH ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

PublishersPublishers FundersFunders Research & DevelopmentResearch &

DevelopmentGovernmentGovernment

THANK YOU

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