TY - JOUR
T1 - A system for generating research impact visualizations over medical research groups
AU - Mischo, William H.
AU - Schlembach, Mary C.
N1 - Universities routinely employ research impact assessment mechanisms and tools for grant proposals, resource allocation decisions, and funding budget requests. These impact metrics are often displayed in interactive visualizations and dashboard displays. There is a growing trend for libraries to be cooperatively involved in the gathering and provision of research intelligence and impact data. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has developed a system for generating research impact visualizations for research groups within the newly established Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Using the Elsevier Scopus database Applications Programming Interface, we have created a series of scripts to extract article, conference paper, and book chapter metadata and build supporting database tables. From the database, a dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and publication number labels is generated for each individual researcher. The interactive visualization can retrieve articles and papers published over the last five years, citation information (as cited by number) for each researcher, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant matches, and a visualization of the coauthored papers for each author within the cohort. These activities enhance the role of the library in supporting knowledge management and scholarly communication and in fostering campus partnerships and collaborations.
In addition, an interactive web-based dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and frequency labels for each faculty member’s research output has been created. This visualization provides publication numbers over the last five years, citation information (a cited by number), NSF and NIH grant totals, and a separate coauthor visualization showing the number of coauthors within the ICC cohort. The bubbles are scaled to the number value range within each of the four reported metrics and are clickable. Figure 3 shows the faculty research measures in the overarching display, and Figure 4 shows a close-up view of the visualization bubbles for several faculty members.
The grants link displays matches from a locally produced database of metadata on NSF and NIH grants awarded to the University of Illinois over the last 10 years. Figure 6 shows an example display from the grants table. The grants database is generated from downloading search results from the NSF site and the NIH Explorer site and importing the results into a relational database table. The grant title link goes to the appropriate NSF and NIH site grant description page.
Figure 5. Researcher grants from NSF and NIH.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Universities routinely employ research impact assessment mechanisms and tools for grant proposals, resource allocation decisions, and funding budget requests. These impact metrics are often displayed in interactive visualizations and dashboard displays. There is a growing trend for libraries to be cooperatively involved in the gathering and provision of research intelligence and impact data. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has developed a system for generating research impact visualizations for research groups within the newly established Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Using the Elsevier Scopus database Applications Programming Interface, we have created a series of scripts to extract article, conference paper, and book chapter metadata and build supporting database tables. From the database, a dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and publication number labels is generated for each individual researcher. The interactive visualization can retrieve articles and papers published over the last five years, citation information (as cited by number) for each researcher, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant matches, and a visualization of the coauthored papers for each author within the cohort. These activities enhance the role of the library in supporting knowledge management and scholarly communication and in fostering campus partnerships and collaborations.
AB - Universities routinely employ research impact assessment mechanisms and tools for grant proposals, resource allocation decisions, and funding budget requests. These impact metrics are often displayed in interactive visualizations and dashboard displays. There is a growing trend for libraries to be cooperatively involved in the gathering and provision of research intelligence and impact data. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has developed a system for generating research impact visualizations for research groups within the newly established Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Using the Elsevier Scopus database Applications Programming Interface, we have created a series of scripts to extract article, conference paper, and book chapter metadata and build supporting database tables. From the database, a dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and publication number labels is generated for each individual researcher. The interactive visualization can retrieve articles and papers published over the last five years, citation information (as cited by number) for each researcher, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant matches, and a visualization of the coauthored papers for each author within the cohort. These activities enhance the role of the library in supporting knowledge management and scholarly communication and in fostering campus partnerships and collaborations.
KW - Faculty research support
KW - Library partnerships
KW - Research impact metrics
KW - Visualizations
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U2 - 10.1080/15424065.2018.1507773
DO - 10.1080/15424065.2018.1507773
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053658429
SN - 1542-4065
VL - 15
SP - 96
EP - 107
JO - Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
JF - Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
IS - 2
ER -