Stanford University Takes the Research Crown in Thomson Reuters Metrics Mania

Stanford triumphs over a field of 64 schools to knock out Duke in the final matchup for research champion

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Apr 08, 2014, 08:00 ET

PHILADELPHIA, April 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today named Stanford University as the champion of Metrics Mania, a unique, annual competition measuring the research impact of American universities participating in the NCAA^® college basketball tournament.

As millions of basketball fans watched to see whether UConn or Kentucky would be the winner of this year's collegiate basketball championship, the world of scholarly and scientific research also prepared to crown a new champion in scientific research. Stanford University emerged victorious over Duke University in the final matchup of Thomson Reuters Metrics Mania. Stanford was identified as the strongest performer in scientific research among the American institutions competing in the NCAA basketball tournament.

The winners of each of the six rounds of Metrics Mania were determined biweekly from March 17 through April 7 using Thomson Reuters InCites^TM, the leading web-based research analytics platform enabling institutions to measure research output and impact, monitor trends, and benchmark performance against peers at the individual, departmental and global levels. Throughout the competition, the brackets in Metrics Mania aligned competing institutions to compare their research programs based on trusted InCites indicators including times cited, percentage of documents cited and the normalized citation impact.

"Throughout Metrics Mania, we used proprietary scientific data and analytics gleaned from InCites to offer a unique perspective into how the institutions compare in terms of research prowess," said Gordon Macomber, managing director, Thomson Reuters Scholarly and Scientific Research. "Congratulations to Stanford University for being named the 2014 Thomson Reuters Metrics Mania winner!"

Metrics Mania fans followed the game via Twitter @TR_ScienceWatch and on the Metrics Mania website, where they were invited to submit brackets with their own predictions.

InCites uses the industry's most trusted content, tools and services from the Web of Science^TM to provide objective analytics that support research evaluation and assessment, collaboration activities, reporting requirements and competitive analysis. It is a single destination for evaluating output, performance and trends compared to others, by understanding the full scope of an organization's scholarly contributions, and articulating actionable outcomes to refine or redirect research priorities through objective, configurable metrics.

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