Translating Information to Insights: Bibliometrics & Beyond: Delivering Strategic Research Intelligence for Offices of Research & Innovation and Corporate Partnerships

This presentation will demonstrate how the team uses tools such as Scival, VosViewer, and Altmetrics in conjunction with in-depth industry reports and background intelligence to provide campus stakeholders with accessible analysis by using Tableau and slides. Example findings will be provided and will be centered around research intelligence on corporate-academic authorship, providing evidence of past successes with specific corporations, providing data-driven evidence of Virginia Tech and peer/competitor competencies, discovering potential high-impact recruits, discovering statewide collaborators for a cybersecurity imitative and creating custom groups around collaborators to demonstrate impact, developing an understanding of the patent and funding landscape, uncovering public policy and social media impact, and developing metrics and collaborative network mapping for key initiatives. Just as important, the team uses the opportunity to make campus stakeholders more aware of problems inherent in bibliometric data and underscores responsible use.