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Collaboration in aCollaboration in a Network Research Landscape

September 23rd 2011September 23rd, 2011Accelerate Research Excellence Forum @ New Delhi, India

Goki IshikawaDirector of Product Marketing, SciVal

Elsevier, Science and [email protected]

Global trends we see today in research

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• Evaluation of Research

• Competition and Collaboration

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• Mobility of Resources• Efficiency and Effectiveness

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Why do researchers collaborate?… some Motivations

• Changing patterns of funding• Changing patterns of funding• To increase scientific popularity, visibility and recognition• Demands for the rationalization of scientific manpower• Requirements of complex and large-scale instrumentation• Increasing specialization in science

D d f k l d i d t k i ifi t• Demands for more knowledge in order to make significant advances

• Growing professionalization of scienceg p• Need to gain experience or to train apprentice researchers in the

most effective way possibleD i t bt i f tili ti di i li• Desire to obtain cross-fertilization across disciplines

• Need to work in close physical proximity with others

7Source: J. Sylvan Katz, Ben R. Martin (1997)

What triggers collaboration?… some Factors

• “… spatial proximity seems to encourage collaboration since it t d t t i f l i ti ”tends to generate more informal communication”

• “ social distance between individuals is also apparently a factor… social distance between individuals is also apparently a factor influencing whether collaborations develop … collaboration between peers (i.e., scientists of similar standing) is more likely than collaboration between individuals of unequal rank ”collaboration between individuals of unequal rank …

• “Collaboration frequently occurs between teachers and students.”q y

• “… in cases where the potential collaboration involves a clear division f l b i ti t b d ith ki th tof labour, scientists may be more concerned with seeking the most

appropriate expert partners, even if they have to travel some distance to find them.”

8Source: J. Sylvan Katz, Ben R. Martin (1997)

How can we monitor collaboration? What are the implications?p

• “… despite the limitations of pco-authorship measures, many studies have used this technique to investigate ”to investigate.

• “ … some would argue that bibliometric studies are unintrusiveand indeed non-reactive--that is, the measurement does not affect the collaboration process. This may be true in terms of an immediate effect but others haveimmediate effect, but others have suggested that the results from a bibliometric investigation may influence collaborationinfluence collaboration practices over the longer term.”

9Source: J. Sylvan Katz, Ben R. Martin (1997), MD Anderson SciVal Experts http://www.experts.scival.com/mdanderson/

Implications from dataSome Examplesp

• Who are our researchers co-authoring A

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• Which countries/institutions do those researchers belong to?

Collaboration for Internal Planning

researchers belong to?

• Who else outside of my current network, By ,can I work together with?

• Who has expertise in this topic within and outside of my university?

Support New

Collaborationsoutside of my university?

• How much impact will the collaboration have M iC

• How much impact will the collaboration have to our research organization? Are there any quantitative metrics we can consider, in dditi t th lit ti f t ?

Measuring expected Impact of

addition to the qualitative factors?

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Collaborations

Collaboration for Internal Planning:Taking an Indian Institution for an example

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Many publications from Engineering, Physics,Material Sciences and Chemistry

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Engineering (16.6%)

Others

Physics and Astronomy (15.2%)Mathematics (5.2%)

Biochemistry, Genetics andMolecular Biology (7.9%)

Material Science (12.7%)Computer Sciences (8.4%)

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Chemistry (11.2%)

84 Global strength areas in Computer Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering and Biotechnology

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Who are our researchers co-authoring papers with?Which countries/institutions do they belong to?

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Many papers co-authors with researchers belonging to institutions in US, India, Western Europe and Japan

Source: SciVal Spotlight 2010 Map

Collaborations within your 84 research competencies?

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Within areas of strengths co-authorship happening

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Within areas of strengths, co-authorship happeningmostly with researchers from institutions in US and India

Source: SciVal Spotlight 2010 Map

Drill down into more details:Example of collaboration with Japanese institutions

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Identify opportunities for collaboration to further strengthen your competencies

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Key Takeaways – Collaboration for strategic planning at an institutional level

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• With the increasing number of papers being published today, it is extremely challenging to understand the overall activities of researchers at your institution

• Understanding the overall co-authorship situation is crucial for building future research strategy at an institutional level

• Data can help to: (a) visually get an understanding of the overall collaboration(a) visually get an understanding of the overall collaboration

situation, and (b) detailed information for each of the potential opportunities

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Supporting individual researchers find collaborators more effectively: MD Anderson

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• VP of Global Academic Programs at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center wanted to create a network among researchers at MD Anderson and its 23 sister institutions around the world to help achieve its missionachieve its mission“Making Cancer History”

• The challenge – enabling researchers and administrators to easily identify experts across institutions and facilitate

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opportunities to collaborate

Individual researcher will get their own profile,visible to the international research community

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20Source: MD Anderson SciVal Experts Website http://www.experts.scival.com/mdanderson/default.asp

Can showcase their lists of publications, awarded grants, trend of past research et al.

Enable both internal and external researchers to identify researchers with specific expertise

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Researchers can also analyze their own research network with up-to-date information

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Can identify who they have not worked together with,within their research community

Looking from a research management point of view …Example of MD Anderson

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• Currently includes researcher data from the yGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), one of its sister institutions

• Hopes to expand to the rest of 22 sister

Expanding thecommunity

• Hopes to expand to the rest of 22 sister institutions globally

• Extract data from SciVal Experts to conduct analysis on size and activity level of specific research area Insight intoresearch area

• Identify gaps in certain areas and strategically allocation resource to strengthen the field

strategic planning

“SciVal Experts has made it easier to find the right expert at MD Anderson, and so has lowered the barrier for

23Source: Vice President of Global Academic Programs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

at MD Anderson, and so has lowered the barrier for potential collaborators to make a good connection."

National Networks being developed in USB

24Source: http://www.vivoweb.org/

Key Takeaways– Supporting new collaborations

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• We see increasing demand from researchers to seek new collaborators, to develop future breakthrough in science and interdisciplinary research

• However, it is challenging for both external researchers and internal researchers/administrators to identify such collaborators b d th i i ti t kbeyond their existing network

• As initial step to facilitate collaboration showcasing individualAs initial step to facilitate collaboration, showcasing individual researcher’s activity to the global research community can help

• Elsevier is working closely with global research institutions to provides these infrastructure, which can also be linked to national network initiatives being developedg p

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Measuring expected impact of collaborationsC


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Future Funding OpportunitiesC

Example: Top results for the US researcher mentioned previously

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Identify funding opportunities from +25,000 opportunities worth > $24.4B

Backup: Awarded grants and future opportunities identified from 4,200+ funding bodies globally

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Expanding database through including funding data from other nations

Source: SciVal Funding

Key Takeaways – Measuring expected impact from collaboration

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• Both qualitative and quantitative factors should be considered to analyze impact of collaboration. For quantitative factors, “Average citation per paper” and “Funding” might be something we can look into

• By looking into the trends of individual researcher’s past h t t i i i ht i t h th ll b tiresearch output, we can gain insight into how the collaboration

might impact Average citation per paper

• In addition, by looking into past awarded grants and future funding opportunities, we can estimate how much external grants the collaboration might be able to attractthe collaboration might be able to attract

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What is your challenge …

UnderstandingUnderstandingCollaboration

Situation

IdentifyingIdentifying Opportunities

for Future CollaborationsCollaborations

Measuringexpected Impactof collaboration

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of collaboration

Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus … Used in various national level research exercises

“ … the four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies (representing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) will use Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database as the sole bibliometricElsevier s SciVerse Scopus database as the sole bibliometricprovider for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).The Framework was developed to assess the quality of research in UK higher education institutions ”in UK higher education institutions …

(September 19th, 2011)

“ … the Australian Research Council has selected SciVerseScopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database, for the third time as the sole citation provider for the Excellence inthird time as the sole citation provider for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment for 2012 …”

(September 12th, 2011)

32Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/

SciVal is based on SCOPUS

SourceSource Data

Client Data

Customized Solutions based

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on individual needs

Summary

• Collaboration is a global trendg

• Data can help to get an understanding of the currentData can help to get an understanding of the current collaborations taking place and insight into opportunities for future collaborations

• By showcasing each individual researcher’s activities, we can support both internal and external researchers to find new collaborators outside of their current network

• Elsevier can provide various solutions to support these needsneeds

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For further contacts

• Padma MuralidharanPadma MuralidharanSenior Customer Development Manager – India [email protected]

• Goki IshikawaGoki IshikawaDirector of Product Marketing, SciVal – Global [email protected]

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