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  An Evaluation of NHMRC funded Dementia and Diabetes Research

  Etienne VIgnola-Gagné PhD, Dmitrii Malkov, Elisabeth Browning, Jörg Hellwig PhD, Luigi Rocco PhD, Henrique Pinheiro, and Alexandre Bédard-Vallée

  This report, commissioned by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), provides comprehensive insights into the research outputs, outcomes, and impacts of NHMRC-funded health and medical research in the areas of dementia and diabetes to support NHMRC's mission of ‘building a healthy Australia.’

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  Driving Innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Research Impact and Contribution by The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Analytical Services, Elsevier and The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Comprising Hong Kong, Macao, and nine cities in southern China's Guangdong province, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is one of the most dynamic and innovative regions in the world, housing leading universities and global high tech companies. To understand the research landscape of the GBA and assess its research strengths, this report, developed in partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong provides an overview of the research performance of the GBA and a highlight of the research development of Hong Kong based on analysis of research output data from 2018-2022.

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  Research Trends and Impact Report on Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE), 2001-2021

  Elsevier Analytical Services

  Since the concept of AIE was first proposed in China in 2001, it has gradually grown to a field of science that attracts dedicated researchers from around the world. Elsevier's data analytics team used AIE experts' interpretation of current theoretical, technological, and industrial development trends in the field for reference to collect AIE-related global scientific publications (from the Scopus database) to serve as a publication set in the field of AIE. This was undertaken to present, accurately and objectively, the development of AIE research over the past two decades and the latest scientific advancements in the field; to facilitate the establishment of a systematic and theoretical knowledge base; and to help build a Chinese-led international collaboration platform to promote innovation, industrial transformation, and applications of AIE and its related fields.

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  Comparative Assessment of London Knowledge Quarter and University College London Research and Innovation Achievements

  Dmitrii Malkov, Alexandre Bédard-Vallée, Elisabeth Browning, Thomas A. Collins, Nick Godwin, Jörg Hellwig PhD, Paul Khayat PhD, Henrique Pinheiro, Maxime Rivest PhD, Guillaume Roberge, Luigi Rucco PhD, and Etienne VIgnola-Gagné PhD

  University College London (UCL) contacted Elsevier to ask for support in the provision of an analytical report assessing the research and innovation performance of London's Knowledge Quarter (KQ).

  The KQ is a research and innovation district that spans from Camden Town to Holborn and Covent Garden in London and encompasses an area within approximately a one-mile radius of King's Cross. In recent years, this area has attracted a large number of academic, business, cultural, and media organisations focused on advancing and sharing knowledge. Today, it is home to a consortium of over 100 such organisations with over 70,000 employees, including scientific and knowledge-intensive institutions and companies.

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  Towards the 4th Generation University: The Transformative Role of TU/e in Delivering Innovation and Impact in the Eindhoven Region

  Dmitrii Malkov, Max Domoulin, and Renee Westenbrink

  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) exemplifies the 4th generation university model, spurring innovation and societal development in the region. This report assesses the advancement of TU/e and its peers using quantitative metrics and serves as an invitation for further development of a holistic assessment framework.

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  Progress Toward Gender Equality in Research & Innovation - 2024 Review

  Nicoline van der Linden, Guillaume Roberge, Dmitrii Malkov, Alexandre Bédard-Vallée, David Campbell, Elisabeth Browning, Henrique Pinheiro, Stacey Tobin, Thomas Collins, Tina Zdawcyzk, and Yunxiaoxiao Zhang

  In this report, we explore the progress made over the past two decades toward achieving equal participation by women in research and innovation. By contributing to a greater understanding of the current landscape, this report intends to illuminate pathways forward, inform policymaking and contribute to the pursuit of gender diversity and equal opportunities in the research workforce.

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  Quantitative Analysis of Dutch Research and Innovation on Key Technologies: A Report for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate

  Jörg Hellwig PhD and Luigi Rucco PhD

  The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (MinEZK) is actively shaping a National Technology Strategy (NTS) to optimize research allocation and enhance the Netherlands' global technological competitiveness. This report, commissioned by the MinEZK offers insights into the Netherlands' research capabilities across 44 key technologies and comparative data showcasing the country's standing in the global research landscape.

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  Landscape and Development Trends of Energy Research

  Elsevier Analytical Services, Xiamen University, Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials

  An analysis of the performance of China's research in Energy Science and its subfields, intended to support decision-making for science and technology policymakers.

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  Understanding Amsterdam's Competitive Advantage

  Simone Munao PhD, Jan-Maarten van Schalkwijk, Basak Candemir PhD, MIchiel Koman PhD, Jörg Hellwig PhD, Erik Boer, and Cordelia Sealy DPhil

  Amsterdam has a rich and illustrious history as a center of learning. Home to world-class universities, academic hospitals, research institutions, and global corporations, the city is a hub for knowledge and innovation in Europe. With a global reputation in medicine, health and life sciences, Amsterdam has, in recent years, made substantial investments in artificial intelligence and data science. Amsterdam was also one of the first cities to embrace sustainability in economic and technological development plans. This report reflects on Amsterdam's current strengths in research and innovation, benchmarked against other Dutch and European research-intensive cities, to identify opportunities for future development.

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  Gender in the Portugal Research Arena: A Case Study in European Leadership

  Analytical and Data Services, Elsevier

  Previous analytics reports examining gender in the research workforce – Elsevier’s 2020 global gender report, The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens: An Examination of Research Participation, Career Progression and Perceptions Across the Globe, and the European Commission She Figures 2018 report (on which Elsevier served as a partner) – shined a spotlight on Portugal’s leadership in terms of women’s higher level of representation in research compared with the EU28 as a whole and individual European countries. The analyses derived from those earlier studies and presented here showcase a series of findings relevant to understanding both gender diversity and inclusion in research for Portugal, relative to regional comparators. The data and analyses, contexualised by new expert insights, lay out a path whereby Portugal can continue to expand its leadership efforts towards all around greater gender equity in the research workforce as well as serve as a source of learning and inspiration for other European countries and elsewhere in the world.

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  South Korea: A Technological Powerhouse Strengthening its Research and Innovation Footprint

  Basak Candemir PhD, Weiwei Cheng, Jörg Hellwig PhD, Erin Hill-Parks, Dana Jang, Anders Karlsson PhD, Donghyun Kim, Sohyeong Kim, Sumeet Rohatgi, and Lu Zhao

  Systematic investment in research and development has moved South Korea from an innovation follower to an innovation leader.

  This report from Elsevier in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) presents some key indicators around the South Korean research and innovation ecosystem, with comparator countries being the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and China. The main study period of the report is 2015–2019.

  Our focus in the report is on academic research, its volume and scholarly impact, as well as on focus topic areas and collaboration networks, both national and international. With three quarters of R&D performed by the corporate sector, the report looks in closer depth at academic–corporate co-publication patterns in terms of scholarly impacts as well as providing novel insights from analyzing patenting activities both in terms of volume and quantity.

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  Pathways to Net Zero: The Impact of Clean Energy Research

  Başak Candemir PhD, Jörg Hellwig PhD, Etienne Vignola-Gagné PhD, Jan-Maarten van Schalkwijk, and Cordelia Sealy DPhil

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  UN SDG Goals: Wales' Research Performance with UK and Global Comparators (2010-2019)

  Jörg Hellwig PhD and Jan-Maarten van Schalkwijk

  The purpose of this report is to assess the relative performance of Welsh research outputs related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past decade (2010-19). This analysis builds on a methodology developed by Elsevier and partners that uses a bottom-up approach to identify SDG-relevant publication sets.

  This report was funded and commissioned by the Welsh Government Office for Science.

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  Data and Insights on International Science, Technology, and Innovation--Comparative Research Report of 20 Global Cities, 2016-2020

  Wang Qian; Wang Yang; Ruan Shu; Liu Meihua; Xingxing He; Dennis Yu; Başak Candemir PhD; Yingying Zhou PhD, MPH; Beverley Mitchell; Bamini Jayabalasingham PhD; and Anders Karlsson PhD

  This report, prepared by Elsevier in collaboration with the Administrative Center of Shanghai R&D Public Service Platforms, presents some key science, technology, and innovation indicators for 20 global cities. It is based on an earlier local report launched by the Center, which focused on the 2014--2018 period. To reflect the latest patterns and trends, Elsevier updated all the bibliometric analysis using data from 2016--2020 1 and used an updated methodology for the definition of cities. The analysis of patenting activities, which was conducted by the Center, was not updated

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  UK-India: Partnerships for Growth with Research and Innovation

  UKRI, UKRI India, and Newton Bhabha

  UKRI India joint funding resulted in 258 projects. Over £150 million in funding from the UK was matched by Indian counterparts, bringing the overall joint investment to the equivalent of over £330 million.

  The projects were funded by over 15 funding agencies, bringing together more than 220 lead institutions from the UK and India. These research projects have generated more than £450 million in further funding, mainly from public bodies but also from non-profit organisations and commercial entities.

  The projects covered a wide range of subjects, from heritage to renewable energy, generating a large number of outputs in different formats and scholarly and societal impact in a multitude of forms.

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  Big Data Analysis of Nanoscience Bibliometrics, Patent, and Funding Data (2000-2019)

  Yuliang Zhao, Zhixiang Wei, Qing Dai, Hongwei Dong, Hongjun Xiao, Shuxian Wu, Xingxing He, Beverley Mitchell, Thomas A. Collins, Sarah Huggett, John van Orden, Christiane Barranguet, and Basak Candemir

  Given the strategic significance of Nanoscience and nanotechnology, it is essential to evaluate and predict its developmental trends. This report is based on the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, Elsevier's Scopus, along with the research evaluation platform SciVal. The funding and patent analysis data for the report is from Funding Institutional and PatentSight, respectively. This report provides an evaluation of Nanoscience's scientific output, role, contribution, and impact through bibliometric analysis, combined with big data indicators of Nanoscience scientific results and patents from 2000 to 2019.

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  Alzheimer's Disease Research Insights: Impacts, Trends, Opportunities

  Analytical Services, Elsevier

  Alzheimer’s disease research represents a steady share of global output. There is a focus on the peptide, amyloid-β, but interesting behavioral topics are emerging. To understand the landscape of Alzheimer’s disease research, we queried Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

  Research on Alzheimer’s disease has increased steadily in volume since 1980 and 50,614 items related to Alzheimer’s disease were published from 2014-2018. Compared with global research output, Alzheimer’s disease research has grown at the same pace as research overall and has represented 0.35- 0.4% of all research done globally between 2012 and 2018.

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  HIV/AIDS Research Insights: Impacts, Trends, Opportunities

  Analytical Services, Elsevier

  The United States is the top producer of HIV/AIDS related research, followed by the UK, South Africa and China. In terms of the relative activity in HIV/AIDS research, output is highest in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, reflecting the high priority of this research in countries where the disability-adjusted life years lost due to HIV/AIDS per 100,000 individuals is high, along with the strong research culture in these countries.

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  A Metrics-Based Assessment of Scotland's Science Landscape (2007-2016)

  Başak Candemir PhD and Eleonora Palmaro

  Elsevier was commissioned by the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC), to undertake a bibliometric-based assessment of the performance of Scotland’s scientific research base to provide ministers, officials and interested stakeholders with an objective overview. Similar analysis has been conducted for the UK, Scotland and Wales separately, in the past. Of course, publication outputs relate to only one of the many facets of the research system, but they do at least give an indication of the publication performance relative to other countries.

  The report tracks the performance of Scotland’s scientific research base over a ten-year period (2007-2016), analysing a number of indicators relating to the number and citation impact of publications from Scotland, compared with other UK nations, selected European counties (Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden) and non-European countries (Israel, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland) that are similar in population and economic size.

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  Malaysia: Knowledge Destination for Research Excellence

  Wei-Wei Cheng, Sarah Huggett, Zuraidah Abd Manaf PhD, David Reggio PhD, Alexander van Servellen, Sumeet Rohatgi, Jiangtao Yu, and Muhammed Fauzi Mohd Zain PhD

  This report is a collaborative publication between the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Elsevier, and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). It combines multiple data sources and analyses to provide a multifaceted view of Malaysia’s research and university ranking performance between 2014 and 2018 contrasted with selected comparator countries and regions.

  Malaysia is an attractive research destination and highly productive in terms of number of highly cited publications per unit of funding spend on Gross Expenditure on Research & Development (GERD). Malaysia’s story deserves attention and recognition. Its intent to become a developed knowledge-based economy has been supported by strong national investment in research. In recent years (2014-2018), Malaysia has made substantial investments in GERD (USD 8B in 2014 to USD 12B in 2018), representing an increase of 50% in absolute terms and +0.3 percentage points in GERD as share of GDP. In parallel, Malaysia has grown its research base by about 20,000 researcher Full Time Equivalents (FTE), amounting to over 85,000 researcher FTEs in 2018. These increased resources for Research & Development (R&D), both in terms of financial investment and human capital, have been accompanied by Malaysia’s growing presence in the QS World University Rankings (WUR).

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  Melanoma Research Insights: Impact, Trends, Opportunities

  Elsevier Analytical Services

  Melanoma is a type of cancer that occurs when the skin cells that produce melanin become malignant. This report examines the landscape of melanoma research using Scopus, a source-neutral abstract and citation database, curated by independent subject matter experts.

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  Artificial Intelligence: How knowledge is created, transferred, and used

  Jörg Hellwig PhD, Sarah Huggett, Mark Siebert, and Bamini Jayabalasingham PhD

  This document summarizes Key Findings from the full report "Artificial Intelligence: how knowledge is created, transferred, and used", available alongside other relevant material on the Elsevier Artificial Intelligence resource centre.The RELX group has extensive data assets, powerful computing capabilities, and a vast technological talent base. These allow Elsevier to provide unique insights on AI through this report. We hope these will be of interest to research evaluators, research funders, policy makers, and researchers, as they seek to navigate this complex, evolving, and fast-growing field.

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  South Asia: Challenges and Benefits of a Research Collaboration in a Diverse Region

  World Bank and Elsevier

  This report examines the scholarly output of South Asian countries at national and regional levels. The analysis evaluates national policies, examines regional trends, and benchmarks the research performance of South Asian countries against global comparators such as Brazil, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. In this report, scholarly output refers to the number of scholarly publications produced by a country and indexed in Scopus®, including work by domestic academics as well as international collaborations.

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  Gender in the Global Research Landscape

  Ludivine Allagnat, Stephane Berghmans, Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, Shereen Hanafi, Rachel Herbert, Sarah Huggett, and Stacey Tobin

  Critical issues related to gender disparity and bias must be examined by sound studies. Drawing upon a collection of high-quality global data sources and analytical expertise, Elsevier has produced this report as an evidence-based examination of the outputs, quality, and impact of research worldwide through a gender lens and as a vehicle for understanding the role of gender within the structure of the global research enterprise. Gender in the Global Research Landscape employs bibliometric analyses and methodologies that enable gender disambiguation of authors within the Scopus® abstract and citation database and includes comparisons between twenty-seven subject areas, across twelve comparator countries and regions, over two decades. Elsevier partnered with expert stakeholder organizations and individuals around the world who provided advice on the report’s development, including the research questions, methodologies, and analytics, and a policy context for the report findings. Our intention is to share powerful insights and guidance on gender research and gender equality policy with governments, funders, and institutions worldwide and to inspire further evidence-based studies.

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  International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base 2016

  M'hamed el Aisati, Judith Kamalski PhD, Nick Fowler PhD, Sophia Katrenko PhD, Lei Pan PhD, Andrew Plume PhD, Susan Lacey, Lesley Thompson PhD, and Lisette van Kessel

  This report has been commissioned by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to assess the performance of the United Kingdom’s (UK) research base compared with seven other research-intensive countries (Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the US), four other fast growing nations (Brazil, India, Russia and South Korea), and international benchmarks. Emerging research nations such as China, Brazil and India have been striving to emulate the performance of longstanding research-intensive countries such as the UK, Germany, France and the US. Within this context, this report tracks investment in, and performance of, the national research system in an international setting, combining a variety of indicators to present a multifaceted factual view of the UK’s comparative performance in research as well as data about the trends that may affect, or indeed are already affecting, its position.