The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) recently obtained Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection as one of the data sources to contribute to analyses that will be utilised by the ARC to support development of national impact and engagement assessment to assess the benefits derived from university research. This national assessment exercise is being introduced as part of the Australian government's National Innovation and Science Agenda.
In 2016 the ARC will work with the higher education research sector, industry and other end-users of research to develop quantitative and qualitative measures of impact and engagement of university research. The Web of Science Core Collection provides source data for records such as topic, title and author information which will be used by ARC to support work around sector and ERA analysis in order to derive a model for national assessment.
The ARC will conduct a national assessment as a companion exercise to the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), the country's national research evaluation framework which identifies and promotes excellence across the full spectrum of research activity in Australia's higher education institutions.
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