Abstract
Using CRIS metrics to monitor and stimulate research activity is a widely accepted practice. We implemented CRIS Pure in UrFU and in this paper we summarize limitations of CRIS we met and outline the approaches proposed to solve them.
Highlights
Ural State Federal University is facing an ambitious goal: become a world-class university and secure a position in a top 400 of world university rankings[1]
Author name / Procedia Computer Science 00 (2016) 000–000 studying in Ural Federal University (UrFU) and 900 of them were in PhD programs. 4000 papers were published in 2014 affiliated with UrFU, but only 29% of them are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. 71% of papers were published in local Russian peer-reviewed journals
The first approach to stimulate the increase in research output of the staff that was tested in UrFU was to award authors of papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection
Summary
An analysis of bonus program awards data has shown that people who participated the most and gained the most benefit was the people who had published successfully before the program has started. This finding suggested that the gap to publishing in an indexed journal is severe enough that people will not overcome it themselves just because being provided with an incentive to do so. New participants in the bonus program tended to emerge from departments where the share of academic staff with published papers already was at 40% and higher. It was deemed necessary to facilitate the scientific activity among academic staff and students and provide means to transfer research related skills[3] from existing research groups to the rest of academic staff in an interdisciplinary and even in an interdepartmental way
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