Institutional Research Management Tools: Research in View

To assess impact of faculty or programs, there are several accepted metrics, including publication output and follow-on citations. While these measures are robust and can be normalized by field of research, other metrics are needed to capture important aspects of faculty scholarship, namely teaching, service, and instances of research or scholarship not published in journals. We will present an enterprise solution developed by Thomson Reuters to gather and manage service, teaching, and research information across the university. The success of faculty knowledge management systems depends on the strength of the data model, the ease of data entry, integration with both existing faculty workflows and university systems, and automation of profile maintenance. A demonstration of the user interface will be provided in the context of a discussion of the data model and institutional reporting use cases.