research metrics – the incites approach ncura march 14, 2013
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Research Metrics – The InCites Approach NCURA March 14, 2013. Martin Kirk President of CAURA Director of Research Services, UBC, Canada. Why Research Metrics? Reasonable proxy for research impact? Internal performance monitoring at PI, Dept , Faculty, Institution level - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Research Metrics – The InCites Approach
NCURA March 14, 2013
Martin KirkPresident of CAURA
Director of Research Services, UBC, Canada
• Why Research Metrics?• Reasonable proxy for research impact?• Internal performance monitoring at PI, Dept,
Faculty, Institution level• Outward facing demonstration of impact• In 2010 UBC along with U15 examined both
InCites and SciVal • In 2011 UBC and 6 other U15 subscribed to
InCites.
Executive Summary – UBC1978 - 2013
This dataset contains 135,052 source articles from 165,206 authors and contains 1,578,655 articles that have cited the 135,052 source articles in the dataset.
All institutions shown here are above the world average. UBC is 10th out of 12 top Universities in North America.
AUTHOR RANKING
Summary Metrics
Dashboard offers a quick snapshot of both productivity and influence indicators including:• Times Cited• # WOS Docs• h-index• Median cites• % of docs cited
Author Ranking – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Collaborating Institutions – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Collaborating Countries – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Subject: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Immunology – Impact Relative to Subject Area
SUMMARY METRICS – Julio Montaner
1996 – 2013
Pros• InCites provides a flexible way to track and report citation performance• Useful for comparisons between PIs / international peers • Useful performance and strategic planning tool• Fairly easy to useCons• Need to cleanse data• Cannot compare depts. to depts. or Faculties to Faculties• No strategic research area/clusters collectives e.g. nanotechnology, green
energy, genomics• Not the best visualization but getting better
Both tools have pros/cons…In ideal world we would have both
Conclusions