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