The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has been selected by four organisations to provide essential data and insight into their ground-breaking scientific initiatives. The organisations include Alzheimer's Research UK, the Institute of Physics, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
These partnerships are expected to shed new light on the current scientific environments in multiple fields, inform research and influence policy decision making. Thomson Reuters was selected to provide citation data, unify disparate information sources and apply insight based on its capabilities in evaluating, selecting and analysing scientific and scholarly data.
For a current look at the state of the UK's research in Alzheimer's disease and physics, Thomson Reuters performed in-depth bibliometric evaluations to measure and compare performance and provide snapshots of where the UK stands in each field. These analyses were used in Alzheimer's Research UK's Defeating Dementia report and the Institute of Physics' Bibliometric evaluation and international benchmarking of the UK's physics research report, where Thomson Reuters data is helping to influence government policies and contribute to wider discussions of research in these fields.
Thomson Reuters' expertise is projected to help move research forward. Global Health Connect, an online resource for tackling the explosion of Big Data for global health, is under development in partnership with the NIH's Office of Technology Transfer and BIO Ventures for Global Health. Once complete, Global Health Connect will support the development of treatments for neglected diseases.
Thomson Reuters' partnerships with the NSF, Institute of Physics and Alzheimer's Research UK were backed by Web of Knowledge, a source of scholarly research and citation data and interpretation by its industry subject-matter and research policy experts. The Global Health Connect initiative is said to leverage Thomson Reuters' expertise in data management methodology and technology development.
