In Their Words - Richard Masterman, University of Nottingham
Hello I'm Richard Masterman. I'm associate provost chancellor for research strategy and performance at the University of Nottingham in the UK in the university. I think Scopus is used most often and by individual academics looking at their own research records publication records we've encouraged to the scope is to be disseminated widely in the university and really we want to change the culture about how people regard their publications so that they can see how it feeds into University Rankings subject rankings. And things like that so we encourage them to look at their own publications. Make sure they're accurately represented in scopus one of the key things. I think we've been focusing on is attributions. The the institutional attributions are correctly recorded against individuals because that has an enormous effect in terms of how we appear in rankings and things we tried to relate that to the development of our research strategy we spent the last year 18 months refreshing significantly our research strategy and we've identified quality of one as one of the high level goals that we want to do much better in the university. Cybele allows us to look at the quality aspects across the university mainly by research areas so it research topics research areas in the UK. We have the research excellence. Framework and that's divided into units of assessment so the ability to look across unit within individual units of assessment and then. CH mark that against other UK. Universities is very important for us amongst the best is the ability to benchmark and and to narrow the group that once wants to benchmark with. I think we find the feature that we can group universities and you know because we have three campuses which are separate University entities inside our being able to group those as one and just see how the global Nottingham University compose it is an attractive and aspect of Cybele but I you know their reporting features that enable one to benchmark I think are the most useful and effective tools one of the most significant projects where we benefited from using Sydow in a very in a very instrumental way is a funding competition for biomedical research centers in the UK this is a large-scale funding scheme that was based on bringing different strands in the medical and biomedical area together to be competitive in the UK but with the funding coming from the National Institute of Health Research initial filter for being able to apply to the competition was based on a bibliometric analysis that NIH are commissioned to be carried out we were we wanted to do some additional work to ensure that we got the right groupings together because this competition was very dependent on having the right groupings so we used SCI Val to drill down really into some of the information that was provided to us by the Thunder in order to get the optimum groupings that that could be that could be combined the result of that work obviously with a lot of other input from from different aspects was that Nottingham came out of this competition very successfully and had one of the largest awards from the NIH are in the country outside what's called the Golden Triangle which is London Oxford and Cambridge effectively so we felt that the analysis that we who are able to do through Cybele contributed quite significantly to the success of that particular award which is worth twenty three million pounds between the NHS and the University of Nottingham.