The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters shared plans for the future of its InCites analytics platform at two recent user forums, in Europe and Australia, respectively. Attendees were the first to hear that InCites will become the main environment for all Thomson Reuters analytic functionality related to scientific literature, and will include the company's Essential Science Indicators (ESI) offering in 2013. Thomson Reuters Web of Science will remain dedicated to scientific literature discovery and research.
InCites is the industry's premiere, citation-based research evaluation tool for analysing institutional productivity and benchmarking against peer-group organisations. It currently includes analytic modules such as Institutional Profiles, Research Performance Profiles and Global Comparisons. Essential Science Indicators, the organisation's proprietary solution featuring science thresholds and fast-moving trend data, complements the current InCites offerings and will give users a single platform within which to do their analysis work.
InCites user forum attendees also learned that Thomson Reuters intends to add a journal analysis module, featuring enhanced Journal Impact Factor data, to InCites later in 2013. Despite plans to incorporate ESI and other functionality in InCites, the company states it will continue to support customers accessing these robust tools in their current environments.
Thomson Reuters Research Analytics solutions help organisations better understand their research activities, enabling programmes to attract top researchers, secure funding, facilitate collaborations, benchmark against peers and allocate resources. The most relevant data points, indicators and technology are available through the services developed by the Research Analytics product development group, with a scalable, global team of experts able to provide meaningful interpretations and recommendations.
