This presentation was provided by Vincent Cassidy of The IET during the NISO event "Researcher Behaviors and the Impact of Technology," held on March 25, 2020.

1. Upcycling an A&I database
Insights and analysis ‘beyond discovery’
NISO Research Behaviors and the Impact of
Technology – March 25th
Vincent Cassidy
Director of Research and Academic

2. Benchmark discovery across the physical sciences
19.5 m records
Feb 2020
In 2019
15%

5. Changing
research
practice
Information services responding to the
‘always on’ requirements of changing
research practices

6. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Government
Funders
Scholarly Societies Sharing
Technologies
Private Funders Tenure / Promotion
Committees
Employers
Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America Middle East North America
IET/IEEE research UKSG April
2018
Time for
learned
societies to
step
forward?
What will change the way you work?

7. Value of research tools and services used in last 5 years?
71%
57%
49%
39%
16%
9%
9%
7%
5%
3%
3%
75%
78%
52%
70%
77%
61%
48%
57%
82%
85%
55%
Journal Impact Factor
Abstracting & Indexing Services
ORCID
Article submission guide / wizard
Collaboration tools
Publons peer review
Kudos
Preprint server for pre-submission feedback
Co-author finders
Reproducibility tools
Altmetrics/Impact
Research Tools Used in Last 5 Years
Tools found most useful Tools used in last 5 years IET/IEEE research 2018
Traditional services highly used and highly valued, however new workflow tools and services are more
highly valued where they have been adopted.

8. How might you use Inspec Analytics?
78.6%
72.4%
57.6%
53.3%
38.6%
38.6%
29.5%
27.6%
3.3%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
To discover articles connected to my search query
To discover topics, subjects or concepts that may be of interest to
my research
To understand who the leading authors/researchers are in my
field
To view research trends by concept over time
To compare the research output of my institution with other
institutions
To view the areas of research being carried out in particular
countries
To review research output by institution to support applications
for research postings
To view the research output of my institution
Other
Percent
More detailed overlaps
Link to other Vendors/
IDv2
Need citations
Compare CTs/authors
etc
Aggregated
scores/totals
Funding data
Need citations

9. Project to
improve
value and
usage of
Inspec
Working with library contacts to identify
opportunities to improve our
engagement with scholarly

10. Changing
the way
we work
Specifying workflow pain-points
(and solutions) with Agile thinking

11. Researche
r
Blending discovery, research and
analysis
- inter-disciplinary discovery
- funding ,collaboration,networking

12. Research
Director
and
Senior
Faculty
Strategic planning and impact assessment
- institutional analysis and comparisons
- research work-group impact assessment

13. Corporate
research
engineer
Competitive intelligence
- customised solutions focus
- intelligence and insight
- client-side integration

14. Evolution of Inspec Analytics

16. Research
Director
and
Senior
Faculty
Identify areas of strength within University of
Texas San Antonio compared to other UT
locations

17. UT San Antonio is 1st
place in ‘Image
recognition’…
But why?
Inspec Analytics
shows that UTSA is
#2 in the USA in
‘image enhancement’
But output is
declining – may need
to recruit and/or find
corporate partners

18. Researcher
Research in image enhancement

19. Find collaborators & subject matter experts

21. Inspec Analytics
Vendor platform
integration

22. Encouraging user journeys across platforms

23. Using visualisation analytics to enhance discovery journey
Find items (2013-2019) with CT ‘image motion analysis’ AND CT 2 – show in ID

25. Working with users to connect valuable data points
Find items (2013-2019) with CT ‘image motion analysis’ AND
Journal title X

26. All Document types

27. Impact of Inspec Analytics on Inspec searches
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000
20,000
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Average annual searches per customerInspec searches

28. Precision analytics
for research
excellence

29. THANK YOU
vcassidy@theiet.org