Thomson Reuters Develops Profiles on Hundreds of Global Institutions and Research Facilities

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Sep 08, 2010, 08:54 ET

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters, the authority on research analytics and decision support citation data for more than half a century, announced today that it has collected data on hundreds of institutions and research facilities from around the world. The result is the Global Institutional Profiles Project, the most advanced data-driven view of globally significant universities and research institutions available.

Incorporating scholarly outputs, citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics, data from the Global Institutional Profiles Project can be customized according to different user specifications, allowing universities and research organizations to analyze information for their own specific needs. Institutions will soon have the ability to access this one-of-a-kind resource that will reshape how administrators approach institutional comparisons.

"We've developed a data and analysis system that provides the best informed and most effective resource to build profiles of universities and institutions around the world," said Jonathan Adams, Director of Research Evaluation at Thomson Reuters. "Providing institutions with a rounded profile of their activity allows them to compare themselves with peers rather than global averages. This converts data into truly useful management information."

The Times Higher Education, a London-based weekly magazine that covers higher education issues, is the first to use a customized dataset from the Global Institutional Profiles Project to produce an improved version of their annual World University Rankings to be published on September 16, 2010. In pursuit of best-in-class data quality, the publication turned to Thomson Reuters for its experience and in-house expertise.

The Global Institutional Profiles Project is an ongoing, multi-stage process to collect and validate factual data about academic institutional performance across a variety of aspects and multiple disciplines. Building on this solid foundation of high-quality, robust and comprehensive data, Thomson Reuters provides expert interpretation to present analyses in meaningful ways so that users can not only identify the key performance indicators for an institution, but quickly pinpoint where that institution locates within a global landscape of peer institutions.

For more information about the Global Institutional Profiles Project, please visit http://science.thomsonreuters.com/globalprofilesproject.

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