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The Current Health and Future Well-Being of the American Research University

In an effort to understand the current U.S. research landscape, identify common challenges faced by leading research institutions and recommend and develop solutions, a community driven effort involving 29 of the nation’s top research universities was established in 2011-2012, with support from Elsevier.  The leadership of this group, the Research Universities Futures Consortium, conducted interviews with the Research Executives and their staffs at 25 universities of the Consortium and held a national workshop, which informed their study,  “The Current Health and Future Well-Being of the American Research University,” which was released in June 2012. Download the study and learn more about the Consortium’s key findings.

Uploaded: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:48
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SciVal Strata Factsheet

In this two page factsheet, find out how SciVal Strata can help you measure researcher and team performance. Use SciVal Strata to create teams, real or speculative, based on any researcher globally and gauge their productivity using a number of customizable indicators to determine their potential for recruitment, retention and promotion decisions.

Uploaded: Friday, December 14, 2012 - 10:12
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SciVal Suite Prospectus

A strong research management acumen requires the most accurate information when charting the strategies of an institution or agency. With today’s global research landscape in a constant state of flux, currency and awareness of advancements and emerging talent in the global scientific community is a challenge for many decision makers. Expending the time and resources to assemble and process the vast amount of data and information necessary to manage a research portfolio can be costly and ineffective.

Uploaded: Friday, February 18, 2011 - 16:25
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SciVal Perspectives - Aligning Research Strengths For Informed Recruitment

While recruiting individuals to fill department head positions has always been considered a serious undertaking, universities today are finding that interdisciplinary research and global networking have created a larger, more diversified pool from which to choose.

By analyzing the research competencies of the Women’s Health faculty from a public, American university, the institution has a clearer picture of the specific research areas in which they are currently global leaders as well as fast-growing research areas where they have potential to hold a leadership position. In addition, we identified several institutions with whom they have established partnerships and several universities with whom they may want to consider a relationship as this group of institutions could be very attractive when looking for potential candidates. This analysis will hopefully provide guidelines to university leaders preparing for recruitment and eventually help them to make better informed hiring decisions.

Uploaded: Friday, April 16, 2010 - 10:24