Incites Workshop Exercises February 2012
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Exercises for: Research Performance Profiles
Task 1. How to run a customised Source Article Listing Report on a Subject Area and insert a
minimum citation count threshold. Use the field selection box to remove the second generation
metrics.
 Select Create a Custom Report > Report Type = Source Article Listing
 Untick the ‘2nd Generation Citations’ and ‘2nd Generation per citing document’ fields.
 Select Thresholds > add Citations Threshold = 100
 Select Subject Area = (any of interest, ‘physics condensed matter’ for example)
 Select Create Report
 Select Sort by = Percentile in Subject Area.
a) Which is the paper with the lowest percentile? What is its percentile?
b) By how many times is the impact of this paper above the expected impact at the
category level?
Task 2. How to run a customised Summary Metric Report for papers in a subject area of
interest. Customise the report to include the time span 2000-2011 and include articles only.
 Select Create a Custom Report
Tip: You may need to remove selections if you ran a previous report – use the Clear
Selections button to restore default settings.
 Select Report Type = Summary Metrics
 Select Time Span 2000 -2011
 Select Document Type = Article
 Select a Subject Area of interest
 Select Create Report
c) What is the Category actual/ Expected Cites score?
d) How many papers are in the top 5% of their field and is this above/below the expected
%?
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Exercises for: - Global Comparisons: Institutional Comparisons
Select Global Comparisons > Institutional Comparisons
Task 3. Perform a Top-Level Summary Comparison of Overall Research Output and
Performance for Selected UK Universities.
 Select Comparison Tab
 Select Group United Kingdom
 Select your university and 2 other peer UK institutions
 Do not select a subject area
 Select Time Span All Years (Cumulative)
 Select Create Report button
a) Select the Impact Relative to World Graph to view. Which institution has the highest
impact that is above the world average?
b)
Return to the table page (TIP: Close the window or Select View Tabular Data). Select the
Aggregate Performance Indicator to view graph. Which institution has the highest impact
that is above expected?
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This indicator normalizes for field differences, size and time period. In a given time
period, the total citations accrued for all papers, in all fields, is divided by the sum
of the average citation rates for each paper, respective to fields and time periods.
Task 4. Perform a Multi-University Comparison of Overall and Trended Research Output and
Performance in a Particular Field.
(Tip: Remember - Select Global Comparisons > Institutional Comparisons)
 Select ‘Comparison’ Tab
Tip: You may need to remove selections if you ran a previous report – use the Clear
Selections button to restore default settings.
 Select a Group = United Kingdom, then Select your university and 3 other
peer institutions
 Select a Subject area scheme : RAE 2008, Essential Science Indicators or Web
of Science
 Select a Subject Area
 Select Time Span All Years (Cumulative)
 Select Create Report
c) Select the Impact Relative to Subject Area Graph to View. Which institution has the
highest Impact relative to the average Impact for that field?
d) d) Return to Global Comparisons > Institutional Comparisons page. Now select Times
Span 1981-2010 in 5 year groupings and select ‘Create Report’. Select the %
documents in institution graph to view. What does the graph show you?
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Exercises for: Global Comparisons - National Comparisons
Select Global Comparisons > National Comparisons
Task 5. Perform a multi country comparison of trended output and performance in a
particular field.
 Select Comparison Tab
 Select UK, Germany and Russia
 Select one Essential Science Indicators subject area: Physics
 Select the In 5 year grouping time period
 Select Create Report button
e) Run the Web of Science documents graph to view. Which country has the most papers
in Physics in 2006-2010?
f)
View the % documents in Country/Territory. Which country has the highest % of
physics papers in 2006-2010?
g) Run the Impact Relative to Subject Area graph to view. Which country has the highest
impact relative to the field average in 2006-2010?
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