The design and application of spider track on the research performance evaluation of Fuwai hospital

Abstract

Objective The 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’is an innovative tool for comprehensive evaluation of scientific research performance. It was developed jointly by the Science & Research department and Medical Research & Biometrics Center in Fuwai Hospital. This tool aims to evaluate the development of scientific performances in 3 consecutive years of targeted departments, which will be considered to assess the technological competitiveness of each department. Methods The key variables were the number of projects, funding, awards, publications and patents during the last three years. After standardization, the weighted sum of those variables was calculated. Then the 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’ could be generated and the evaluation conclusion would be obtained after stratification. Results The 'Spider Track Map (Fuwai)’ method had been used to evaluate the scientific research performance in 2015. The excellent research departments had been successfully elected and rewarded. Conclusions Beside the excellent department election, the method can also identify different feature of performance including improved, retrogressive, high efficiency or no changes. This multidimensional tool provides the reference to administrators for scientific commendation and reward and also the guiding and alerting for specific department. Key words: Scientific research performance evaluation; Spider Track Map; Spider Diagram