Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Kyoto University is employing its data and functions in a study performed by Dr. Takanori Ida, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University. Scopus claims to be the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
The study, co-developed by the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University and Elsevier Japan, shows how effectively the government's large funding scheme, 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program, encouraged research activities in universities across Japan. Through the use of Scopus as a tool to identify all research papers related to this programme, the study examines whether a fair evaluation of the research output has been done.
A list of research papers authored by 6,000 researchers who participated in the COE program was collected. These papers served as object of study in Dr. Ida's quantitative analysis on the transition of the number of citations published by each researcher supported by the COE fund. By means of this investigation, Dr. Ida aims to capture statistical evidence of policy effect on large funding. He is giving an interim report on June 25, 2010, at the Kyoto University, along with the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS).
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