The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has named the Netherlands as the winner of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge, a unique competition utilising indicators from InCites, the industry's leading research analytics platform, to measure the global impact of the scientific research produced by countries participating in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament.
The Netherlands shocked the scholarly community with a victory over research heavyweight Switzerland, home to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Large Hadron Collider, to win the first-ever Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge. Netherlands was crowned Global Research Champion after five rounds of competition measuring each nation's scholarly influence by evaluating a variety of benchmarks and metrics, including their percentage of international collaborations and highly cited papers. Highly cited papers constitute the top one percent of papers receiving the most citations in a research field published in a specified year.
Thomson Reuters analysts determined the winners of each round of the Analytics World Challenge by utilising reports pulled from InCites, the leading 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.
In line with their commitment to expand scientific research, the Netherlands will host Science Hack Day, a grassroots event designed to connect individuals from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds— all sharing a passion for science— to work together to develop new scientific solutions or 'hacks.' The event, to be held in Eindhoven, August 30-31, aims to empower Netherlands' scientists, engineers, programmers and designers to work together in the same physical space to nurture new scientific concepts and further Netherlands' scientific reach.
InCites customers are invited to join the Fifth Annual Thomson Reuters InCites Customer Forum in Leiden, Netherlands on September 2 for an opportunity to share research evaluation analysis best practices, customer case studies, training and product development.
