Presented at CONUL conference, June 2016, Athlone, Ireland by Miguel Garcia, Thomson Reuters.

1. Ireland – Research Euro 2016
Anticipated
from Monday 13 June 2016
to 1st
June 2016
Image Credits: UEFA
Miguel Garcia – Solutions Specialist

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Team Profiles
Sweden
•Population (2013): 9,600,379
•# Documents on WoS: 678,256
•GDP Per Capita: $48,966
•Drives on the right
Republic of Ireland
•Population (2013): 4,598,294
•# Documents on WoS CC: 184,703
•GDP Per Capita: $54,464
•Drives on the left

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Matches Timeline
This match will consist in 3 parts.
1
2
3
Research Fields
Compare scientific production based on specific research fields
Collaborations
Compare scientific production based on Collaborations
Funders
Compare funding agencies for scientific production in each country

4. Republic of Ireland
Known Strengths:
•History
•Gaelic – Linguistics
•Music
•Beer – Food Science Technology
Credits: Football Association of Ireland

5. Sweden
REUTERS / Firstname Lastname
Known Strengths:
• Bridges – Architecture
• Fishing – Food Science Technology
• Weather – Meteorology & Atmospheric
Sciences
• Life-expectancy – Medicine

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Research Fields’ Analysis

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Matches Timeline
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1 Research Fields
1980-2015
Food Science Technology
Number of Documents on Wos CC…...5,041
Category Normalized Citation Impact ...1.40
Impact Relative to the World…………...1.506
Highly Cited Papers,,,,…………………..89
% Open Access Publications……………0.5
% International Collaborations………….35.59
% Industry Collaborations……………….1.65
4,200…....Number of Documents on Wos CC
1.42…Category Normalized Citation Impact
1.649……..…... Impact Relative to the World
23…………………,,,,Highly Cited Papers
2.26…………% Open Access Publications
38.95……….% International Collaborations
2.62……………..% Industry Collaborations

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Matches Timeline
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1 Research Fields
2005-2015
Food Science Technology
Number of Documents on Wos CC…...3,109
Category Normalized Citation Impact ...1.36
Impact Relative to the World…………...1.677
Highly Cited Papers,,,,…………………..89
% Open Access Publications……………0.8
% International Collaborations………….41.56
% Industry Collaborations……………….1.51
1,865…....Number of Documents on Wos CC
1.13…Category Normalized Citation Impact
1.450……..…... Impact Relative to the World
23…………………,,,,Highly Cited Papers
4.8…………% Open Access Publications
54.48……….% International Collaborations
3.43……………..% Industry Collaborations

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Matches Timeline
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1 Research Fields
2005-2015
Food Science Technology
CATEGORY NORMALIZED CITATION IMPACT
Calculated by dividing the actual count of citing items by
the expected citation rate for documents with the same
document type, year of publication and subject area.
Last 35 Years – 1.40
Last 10 Years – 1.36
2014 – 1.56

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Matches Timeline
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1 Research Fields
2005-2015
Food Science Technology
8
24
19
10
144
67
92
2
5
2
12
Why?Why?

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Collaborations’ Analysis

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Colaborations’ Analysis
Looking at how each country’s institutions collaborate, both on national and international levels
2 Collaborations
2005-2015

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Colaborations’ Analysis
Looking at how each country’s institutions collaborate, both on national and international levels
2 Collaborations
2005-2015
Collaborations with both countries with the USA.
Similar growth in number of Publications…

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Colaborations’ Analysis
Looking at how each country’s institutions collaborate, both on national and international levels
2 Collaborations
2005-2015
2.74
(2014)
2.61
(2015)
2.99
(2014)
2.96
(2015)
…different impact of those publications!

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Funders Analysis

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Funders’ Analysis
Taking a look at the funding agencies responsible for each country’s publications
3 Funders
2008-2015
TOP
Funding Agency for percentage of
OA records*
Funding Agency for absolute
number of OA records
Swedish Research
Council (34 298)
Tehran University of
Medical Sciences ~44%
Science Foundation Ireland
(1 196 Publ.)
Ministry of Education, Youth
and Sports,
Czech Republic ~27%
Funding Agency for absolute
number of recordsScience Foundation Ireland
(11 016 Publ.)
Note: Threshold of 15 WoS documents applied
Swedish Research
Council (4 680)

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Funders’ Analysis
Contribution of main funders in percentage of Publications per country

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Conclusions
Data can be analyzed through different angles.
Publishing more isn’t always a synonym of more impact.

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Conclusions
Number of publications per year for each
Country
• Tendency to Grow
– Growing Open Access
• Although rate is lower than Sweden
– Irish Highly Cited Papers grow faster than general
number of publications

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Conclusions
Analysis of different environments is always tough!
• Using contextualized metrics will lighten your burden.
• Trust the underlying data to have meaningful analysis.
• No one will ever complain about a too informed decision.

21. Thank you!
David Horky
Regional Sales Manager - Europe
Massimo Giunta
Key Account Manager – UK &
Ireland
miguel.f.garcia@tr.com david.horky@tr.com massimo.giunta@tr.com
Miguel Garcia
Solutions Specialist