The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge, a unique competition designed to measure the research impact of countries participating in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament. The competition will begin June 4, and close with the naming of the global research champion on July 14. The Analytics World Challenge can be followed on Twitter @InCites_TR and the Analytics World Challenge website.
The FIFA World Cup may celebrate the football prowess of the 32 participating countries, but the Analytics World Challenge will put their scientific research efforts to the test. Beginning June 4, Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge will align the competing countries in five rounds of weekly competition to determine which country will be awarded the title of Global Research Champion.
Winners will be identified by reports pulled from Thomson Reuters InCites, the web-based research analytics platform enabling institutions and governments to measure research output and impact, monitor trends, and benchmark performance against peers at the individual, departmental and global levels. The reports will be based on InCites indicators such as a country’s percentage of international and industry collaborations as well as highly cited and hot papers. Highly cited papers constitute the top one percent of papers in a research field published in a specified year, while hot papers are those published within the past two years that received a high rate of citations in the most recent two-month period, placing them in the top 0.1 percent of papers in their field.
Football and research fans alike are invited to submit brackets with their predictions of the winners. Participants will be awarded one point for each correct guess. At the conclusion of the contest, the 20 entrants with the most points will each be awarded a $75 USD Amazon gift card. The final deadline for submission is 4:00 p.m. GMT, June 13. Early bird bonus points will be awarded to any participants submitting by June 6.
