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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