uae's place in web of science research ecosystem

UAE's place in Web of Science research ecosystem

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Executive SummaryThe Web of Science combination of world-class data, tools and expertise creates a mission critical research ecosystem closely aligned with the ambitious research productivity and efficiency growth goals set out by UAE Vision 2021.

United Arab Emirates has witnessed a rapid increase in its scientific research productivity and impact that is highlighted by three indicators:

• In 2018, UAE produced 400% more publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection than in 2008.

• In the last 10 years, more than half of UAE research was published in journals with Impact Factor. Global influence of UAE research is increasing as UAE scientists are publishing more in top quartile journals.

• The Category Normalized Citation Impact of UAE publications (which measures publications’ impact against their peers worldwide) has risen from 0.76 to 1.24.

These trends demonstrate the potential of UAE R&D.

Effective discovery of the most relevant and in-demand scholarly content has always been a hallmark of the Web of Science. With the rapidly growing numbers of Open Access sources, Web of Science has become a major conduit for free and legal access to full texts of publications. A newly developed technological tool, Kopernio, integrated in the Web of Science in 2018, allows the users to discover millions of such Open Access publications worldwide. In 2018, 37% of all searches in the Web of Science by UAE users led to Open Access publications.

The Web of Science offers access to the highest quality data and metrics. In addition, it provides instruments which greatly facilitate the research workflow at the level of organizations and individual researchers. UAE has an increased number of Web of Science ResearcherID profiles: over 1,500 such profiles have been created. The power of Web of Science ResearcherID has been enhanced by a merger with the Publons profiles, a unique tool for making visible peer reviews and journal editing contributions.

The Web of Science Group is firmly committed to fostering its long-standing partnership with the UAE scientific community, promoting quality research and helping to evaluate progress in attainment of the goals of the UAE research.

37%of all searches in the Web of Science by UAE users led to Open Access publications in 2018.

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Contents

5The research workflow supported by the Web of Science Group

6What powers the Web of Science Group?

8UAE's place in the global research landscape

10Publishing in the top global research journals

12Value for the researcher

14Value for the research team

16Value for the global research community

20UAE's scientific communities high value outcomes within the Web of Science Group research ecosystem

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IntroductionThe Web of Science Group organizes the world’s research information and data to enable academia, corporations, publishers, and governments to accelerate the pace of research. It is home to the Web of Science – the world’s most trusted and largest publisher-neutral citation index and independent research intelligence platform. Its many well-known

brands also include EndNote, Converis, ScholarOne, Publons, Kopernio and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The “university” of the Web of Science Group, ISI maintains and advances the knowledge corpus upon which the index and related information and analytical content, products, and services are built.

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Web of Science The world’s largest and highest quality publisher-neutral citation index.

Essential Science Indicators Reveals emerging science trends as well as influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals, and countries across 22 categories of research.

Web of Science Author Connect Reach leading researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

InCites Analyze institutional productivity and benchmark your output against peers worldwide.

ScholarOne Simplified submission workflows and peer review for scholarly publishers and societies.

Journal Citation Reports The world’s most influential and trusted resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications.

EndNote A smarter way to streamline references and write collaboratively.

Kopernio Fast, one-click access to millions of high-quality research papers.

Converis One flow to let institutions collect, manage, and report on all research activity, working seamlessly with an institutions existing systems.

Publons Supporting researchers through documenting their peer-review and journal-editing contributions, providing guidance and best practice for the peer-review process, as well as increasing the overall visibility of their research and its impact.

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Data structure

Meticulous Data Construction and Curation• Complete unified affiliations data• Accurate metrics• Cover to cover indexing• Complete author names data• Meaningful subject categories• Uniform document classification

Editorial integrity

The Web of Science Core Collection is unique: our expert in-house editors have no affiliations to publishing houses or research institutions, free from any potential bias or conflict of interest. Each editor is focused on specific subject categories enabling them to gain a deep, nuanced knowledge of the journals in that field that cannot be replicated by purely algorithmic approaches and/or outsourcing aspects of editorial decision-making.

The basic principles of our selection process remain constant: objectivity, selectivity and collection dynamics. We use a single set of 28 criteria to evaluate journals; these are divided into 24 ‘quality criteria’ designed to select for editorial rigor and best practice at the journal level, and 4 ‘impact criteria’ designed to select the most influential journals in their respective fields using citation activity as the primary indicator of impact. Journals that meet the quality criteria enter Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in the Web of Science Core Collection. Journals that meet the additional impact criteria enter Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) or Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) depending on their subject area.

These are dynamic collections subject to continuous curation to ensure journals are in the appropriate collection. ESCI journals that gain impact move to SCIE, SSCI or AHCI. SCIE, SSCI and AHCI journals that decrease in impact move to ESCI. Any journal that decreases in quality will be removed from the Web of Science Core Collection.

Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield and adapted to respond to technological advances and changes in the publishing landscape, our robust evaluation and curation makes the Web of Science Core Collection the most authoritative global citation database.

4K+publishing partners

12Mpeer-reviewed full text Open Access versions

What powers the Web of Science Group?The foundation of our Group is built upon the Web of Science Core Collection, the world’s only true citation index.

Current Contents Connect

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and Technology Abstracts

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BIOSIS Citation Indexand BIOSIS Previews

Biological Abstracts,

Chinese Science Citation Database

ARCIArabic Citation Index

DataCitationIndex

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Russian Science Citation Index KCI

Korean Journal Database

SciELO Citation Index

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Without the depth, breadth and quality of content, research impact is at risk. World class research needs world class information.

Comprehensive content

• 254 subject categories• 34k+ total journals across

the full platform • 21k total journals in select

Core Collection• 1.6B cited references• 155M records – patents, data sets,

articles, and proceedings• 11.2M records with funding data• 80M patents for over 40 million

inventions Backfiles to 1900 with cover-to-cover indexing

Web of Science platform is much more than just science. Providing a truly multidisciplinary research experience across science, social sciences, and arts and humanities, connecting...

• Independent, regional indexes covering China, Korea, Russia, and Latin America

• World-class subject specialized indexesin biology, medicine, engineering and zoology

• Research data from the ground- breaking Data Citation Index

• Patent indexes covering inventions from over 50 patent issuing authorities

...to the backbone of our editorially curated Web of Science Core Collection, the world’s only true citation index.

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UAE's place in the global research landscape

UAE research productivity is on the rise

UAE overall research productivity, as measured by the publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection has raised impressively, particularly after 2012 onwards.

UAE publications indexed in Web of Science Core Collection increased by 400% from 2008 to 2018. The growth in the key publication type, research articles, in the same period of time was even more impressive – 450%.

450% growth in key publication research articles

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UAE's place in the global research landscape

UAE research productivity is on the rise

The gap between UAE and the leading MENA countries in total research productivity is narrowing and is in line with the size of the country’s research community.

The data from the Web of Science Core Collection are analysed with Incites Benchmarking & Analytics, which allows one to monitor scholarly publication trends against any selected group of countries.

The global impact of UAE research publications

The global citation impact of UAE publications has fluctuations but is still higher than the world average.

In 2008, UAE Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI), calculated in the InCites Benchmarking and Analytics equalled 0.80, which is slightly behind the world’s average (which equals 1). During the last 10 years, UAE CNCI reached the highest value at 1.24 in 2015.

Monitor your changing position in the global research landscape

The Web of Science Group provides the tools you need to accurately evaluate the strength of your research portfolio, view reliable trends over time, and document successful achievement of goals.

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UAE publications in the top global research journals

UAE publications in top quartile journals are on the rise

Web of Science platform indexes all types of scientific publications: journals, proceedings, data sets etc. Approximately 22,000 journals can be found on the platform with half of them having a Journal Impact Factor (JIF).

Journal Impact Factor is a proxy indicator for the importance of a journal in a field by measuring the citation frequencies. We can rank the journals in a field by comparing journals by Impact Factor. A simplified ranking system can be obtained by using journal's quartile ranking. If a journal falls in quartile (Q1), it means that the journal performs better than 75% of journals in that category, based on its Impact Factor score.

In the last 10 years more than half of the UAE research was published in journals with Impact Factor. More importantly, global influence of UAE research is increasing because UAE scientists publish more in top quartile journals.

56% of UAE scientific documents are published in Journals with Impact Factor (JIF).

Between 2008-18 the number of UAE publications in the quartile 1 (Q1) and quartile 2 (Q2) journals has increased, while the percentage of publications in the quartile 3 (Q3) and quartile 4 (Q4) journals is decreasing.

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UAE publications in the top global research journals

UAE publication output across publications with JIF and without JIF

% of UAE documents published in JIF journals output across journal quartiles

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Citation report from the Web of Science

Value for the researcher

Easily document and track an individual’s contribution and impact across the research community. Quickly pull citation statistics to prepare for reviews and grant applications.

Create Citation Report

Over 3,000 Citation Reports are created per year by UAE faculty, typically in support of promotion and tenure reviews and grant applications.

The report shows citation performance statistics for papers authored by Thies Thiemann, Professor, Chemistry Department, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.

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Value for the researcher

Create your Web of Science Publons Profile

800 UAE researchers have created their Web of Science Publons profile.

Claim your publications in a profile to manage your publication identity and showcase your scholarly contribution.

Publons is the only researcher profile that tracks publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal-editing work in one place – automatically calculating a researcher’s citation counts and h-index from the Web of Science Core Collection for every imported publication to a profile.

An easy downloadable record gives a more comprehensive summary of your researcher’s scholarly impact as an author, editor and peer reviewer.

Prepare Promotion and Tenure portfolios

Enhance grant applications and outcome reports

Track your impact including peer review and journal editing contributions

Web of Science Publons Profile page

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Value for the research team

Treemap from Web of Science Analyze Results feature

Quick identification of trends in a field of research for teams

UAE institutions with access to WOS had 216% growth in use of the Analyze Results feature in one year.

This treemap shows the top UAE research organizations conducting research on energy and fuels, and their foreign collaborators. Connect your researchers to experts within UAE and across the globe for potential collaboration.

Analyze Results

Find potential collaborators who have authored papers in your area

See who is producing and funding the research you care about

Discover journals that are publishing key papers in your field

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Value for the research team

Refine results by:

• Web of Science Categories • Publication Years• Document Types• Authors• Funding Agencies Organizations• Enhanced• Source Titles• Book Series Titles

• Meeting Titles Countries / Regions• Editors • Group Authors• Languages• Research Areas• Grant Numbers• Organizations

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Value for the global research community

Deeper insight into the Open Access publishing landscape and the state of global research for the broader community

Better utilize peer-reviewed Open Access articles. The Web of Science platform is the first and only comprehensive, publisher neutral discovery resource for trusted, peer-reviewed Open Access content.In partnership with Impactstory the Web of Science Group has delivered a significant contribution to open science. Through new technology developed by Impactstory with our support, you can discover millions of verified, legal versions of previously undiscoverable open access articles in your Web of Science searches.

Researchers can easily find the best available OA copy of an article, because links point directly to papers with no required journal subscription or login.

12% of full text links were open access in 2018

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Value for the global research community

Explore your contribution to Open Access publishing

The Web of Science supports research community goals of providing easier access to global scholarly literature across all research disciplines. Full text usage from the Web of Science platform significantly increased by including better identification of Open Access publications already indexed. Open Access has seen a high increase in the last 10 years and UAE is part of this trend even with a slightly higher percent of Open Access article published in latest years.

Which UAE authors publish Open Access most frequently?

In which journals do UAE authors publish Open Access?

See the connections between funding, citations, and OA

Dynamic of world productivity

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Open Access articles are starting to have a substantial citation footprint and we see the same trend for UAE. The proportion of OA documents published in journals with impact factor is higher compared with the total UAE productivity.

UAE Open Access WOS documents across journals quartiles, 2008–2018

Journal categories for Open Access articles published by UAE scientists in Web of Science.

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Formulating research strategyFull text links: 5,014

Analysis conducted: 1,560

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Data discovered: 26,644

Research exported: 2,231

Full text access: 5,014

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High value outcomes within our research ecosystem for UAE scientific communities

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Prepare and access: formulate research strategy

Web of Science 26,644 queries

Web of Science 5,014 clicks to full-text

Open Access 612 clicks to OA full-text

Web of Science 1,560 Analyze Results

Records used 130,354 records used

API 2,073 queries

Fund: evaluate funding opportunities

Web of Science 3,248 Citation Reports created


Journal Citation Reports 4,114 queries of Journal Impact Factor

InCites B&A see funders that have supported previous work

Vivo Showcase your work and find collaborators

CRIS system To assist with grant management

DISCOVER & CONDUCT: Progress research aims and outcomes

Web of Science 12 active WoS alerts

Web of Science 26,644 queries

Web of Science 5,014 full text requests from the platform

Open Access 612 links to OA full text

API 2,073 queries

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PUBLISH: Prepare and submit manuscript

Web of Science 1,560 Analyze Results to find top journals

Journal Citation Report 4,114 views of Journal Impact Factor via overlay

ScholarOne seamless workflow tool for manuscript submission & peer review

Assess & Promote: Measure research impact

Journal Citation Reports 4,114 views of Journal Impact Factor

API 2,073 queries to enrich your internal systems

Web of Science 237 uses of Organization-Enhanced

Web of Science 3,248 Citation Reports created


InCites benchmark against peers and evaluate internal performance

Vivo showcase your work and find collaborators

CRIS system to help you manage the entire research

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