Scientific contribution and research performance of a university, research group, or institute needs to be evaluated all the more with the increasing volume and fast-developing disciplines of research. The need of the time is to develop tools for strategic planning and management that will help research bodies to rank and benchmark themselves against international standards. This will enable them to invest appropriately in research areas of promising strength and gain maximally from them, thus fulfilling the ultimate purpose of positive impact of research on society. Our tool is capable of rating and benchmarking universities as well as research institutes in not only the major disciplines and sub-disciplines, but at the finest level of niche areas of science and technology too with the help of its innovative bibliometric indicators based on publications and citation analysis. The tool accepts inputs like discipline/subject area, university, and country and time window while using data retrieved from bibliography database, Scopus, to benchmark and rate the research body under consideration. We have evaluated that there are many niche subject areas in which small or medium size universities are performing good in comparison to the large universities. Most of these subject areas are of more significance in the present day and the future. Government and funds allocating bodies should take this factor in account that investing the right money at right place will give far better results than we they are having right now
翻译:大学、研究团体或研究所的科学贡献和研究业绩,随着研究领域数量和迅速发展,需要随着研究学科的数量增加和迅速发展,更需要评估其科学贡献和研究业绩。时间需要的是开发战略规划和管理工具,帮助研究机构根据国际标准进行评级和基准衡量,这将使它们能够适当地投资于具有潜力的研究领域,并从中获得最大优势,从而实现研究对社会产生积极影响的最终目标。我们的工具不仅能够对主要学科和次学科的大学以及研究机构进行评级和基准衡量,而且能够在科学技术领域最高级的特有领域,借助其基于出版物和引文分析的创新的双曲线指标。工具接受纪律/学科领域、大学、国家和时间窗口等投入,同时利用从书目数据库Scopus检索的数据,对所考虑的研究机构进行基准和评级。我们评估说,在许多特有领域,中小型大学与大型大学相比表现良好。这些学科领域大多在当今和未来都具有更重要的意义。政府和资金所有分配机构现在都比我们在正确的地方投资更有利。