Presented by: Charles Pallandt Title: Managing Director EMEA Academic & Governmental MarketsDate: April 28th, 2011 - Turkey

“Driving Research Excellence to Support the Transition Towards an

"Affluent Society"

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Role of research is changingRole of research is changing

“Thinking and understanding the world”

“Enabling and contributing to the world”

Past Today

Picture source: Google

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We drive a joint Innovation AgendaWe drive a joint Innovation Agenda

Turkish Research Strategy 2013 and 2023 Elsevier SciVal

• Assessment of current status of Turkey

• Identification of the strategic technology

• Identifies Turkish research competences

• ... And potential areas of collaboration

Source: TUBITAK

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Apps enrich content and are now live !Apps enrich content and are now live !

ANKOS Consortia Elsevier Application Marketplace

• Providing common policy agreements among members leading to rational collection growth & more access to e-resources

• Supporting the mission of higher visibility for Turkish Research

• Increase visibility and ReputationOpen for 3rd party content and applications

• Improve workflow efficiencyUsing Apps along the research process

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Free apps increasing your research efficiencyFree apps increasing your research efficiency

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Screenshots: Co-Author NetworkScreenshots: Co-Author Network

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Screenshots: Recommend ThisScreenshots: Recommend This

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Join us in our Developers’ Network: expose your apps to 15 M users!Join us in our Developers’ Network: expose your apps to 15 M users!

In discussions

Under development

Existing Partners

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Turkish success: Article Output increasingTurkish success: Article Output increasing

Global competitors of Turkey

Outputs # of Articles CAGR

Total Global 7,950,486 2.92%Articles from

Turkey 115,814 5.85%

Article Share 1.46%Source: SciVal Spotlight 2009 Data

Number of articles published between 2005-2009

Turkish Scientific Output increased by 5.85 % between 2005-2009

(6th in terms of growth rate)

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The next challenge: Quality improvement!The next challenge: Quality improvement!

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

8.4

1.97

1.55

1.11

0.36

Citations Received 2009, ar-ticles (M)

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

477

239

232

158

93

H - Index, 2009

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

12.29

7.03

6.6

5.56

3.95

Citations per Article

Source: Elsevier Scopus data, 2011

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International Collaboration is an opportunityInternational Collaboration is an opportunity

# of Documents

International Collaboration

% Cited Documents

Relative low number of Turkish papers have international co-authors.

Source: Scimago, 2011, based on Elsevier Scopus data

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Turkish R&D Strategy builds on its strengths Turkish R&D Strategy builds on its strengths

Medical Specialties

Chemistry

Engineering

• Strategic Research fields: Energy, Water & Food Techs

• Major focus on three research fields: Chemistry, Engineering, Medical Specialities

• Top related disciplines• Solar & wind power(E)• Inorganic chemistry (C)• Circulation (MS)

• Chemistry shows most multi-disciplinary strengths.

• Article growth coming from• Earth sciences• Math & physics• Engineering

Source: Elsevier Scival, 2009

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Are you aware of your institute’s contribution ?Are you aware of your institute’s contribution ?

Source: Elsevier SciVal, 2009

Chemistry is Distinctive Competency # 1 (biggest in article share + market size growth)

Main Keywords: sp nov, taxa belonging, methanol extract

Strong links with Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Health Sciences, Infectious Diseases

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SupportFunding

Governance

Supportrecruiting

University of Kiel

Research Tools drive Research Excellence Research Tools drive Research Excellence

• Using SciVal for application to Research Excellence Initiative

Received two grants for Marine Sciences and Inflammation Sciences

• Using SciVal for selection of Professors Rejected good reputation Profs.

not delivering the impact

• Using Scopus for Awarding funding to researchers throughout the world

• Strengthening the research system and effectiveness

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Facilitate collaboration in research

Support evaluation

Promote Turkish research via Apps

Direction set, momentum created let’s drive towards excellence

Direction set, momentum created let’s drive towards excellence

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Thank You

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Evaluating Collaborating

Content Applications Workflows*

Promoting

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Scopus citation history satisfies most searches

Last 1 Year16%

Last 5 Year40%

Last 10 Year30%

Molecular Biology& Biochemistry

BiologicalSciences:

Humans

Clinicalmedicine Physics and Astronomy

Applied Physics and Chemical Science

Engineering

Geosciences

Mathematics

AverageAverage

Biological Sciences: Animals and Plants

86% of WoS users only search within the last 10 years of cited references

Scopus deep abstract coverage enables effective complementary search capability

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Generalized Citation Curve

Time After Publication (years)

Cita

tion

ImpactFactorWindow

ImmediacyIndexWindow

Cited Half-Life

50% ofcitations

50% ofcitations

Last 20 Year 14%

* In integration

Interoperability is key for smart solutionsInteroperability is key for smart solutions

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Recognition - DetailRecognition - Detail

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

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6

2

1

1

2SHANGHAI RANKING THES

Middle East Techn. University (#183), University of Bilkent (#112)

Istanbul University

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Funding - DetailFunding - Detail

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

1760

2025

690

863

876

GDP 2009 ($ BLN)

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

1.14

1.02

0.57

0.710000000000001

0.670000000000002

R&D SPEND (% OF GDP)

ITALY

BRAZIL

POLAND

TURKEY

IRAN

331.2

91.3

84.6

59.8

66.4

R&D SPEND / CAPITA ($)

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Info solutions support research excellenceInfo solutions support research excellence

Identifying research partners and focusing on areas of excellence, e.g. SciVal

Making experts visible increases rankings,

e.g. ExpertProfiling , ShowCases (Collexis)

Availability of online articles increases research output,

e.g. via ScienceDirect or Scopus, books and backfiles

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• Three universities ranked on international level

•But only 10% of referring peer countries

• Good performance compared to output and recognition

•But R&D spend comparably low

In line with the neighbour countries

But citations and Impact up to 50% behind peer-group on country size