Business information company Thomson Reuters, US, and Discovery Logic, Inc. have announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has chosen Web of Science data to power the NIH electronic Scientific Portfolio Assistant (eSPA). Discovery Logic is a leading provider of systems, data and analytics for real-time portfolio management, decision support, outcomes tracking, and information visualisation.
eSPA is an information technology system designed to assist NIH grants management officials in creating grant portfolios and tracking research outputs and outcomes, including publications and citations. As the prime contractor on this award, Discovery Logic will link Web of Science data to NIH grants, clinical trials, publications, invention reports, patents and other scientific data sources by providing custom software development services, database services and data analytic services.
Web of Science is the world’s largest citation database, providing researchers, administrators, faculty and students access to more than 11,000 actively covered, high impact journals and 110,000 conference proceedings, totaling 45 million documents and more than 1 billion cited references.
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