Presented by: Charles Pallandt Title: Managing Director EMEA Academic & Governmental Markets Date: April 28 th, Turkey “Driving Research Excellence to Support the Transition Towards an "Affluent Society"

2 Role of research is changing “Thinking and understanding the world” “Enabling and contributing to the world” PastToday Picture source: Google

3 We drive a joint Innovation Agenda Turkish Research Strategy 2013 and 2023 Elsevier SciVal Assessment of current status of Turkey Identification of the strategic technology Identifies Turkish research competences... And potential areas of collaboration Source: TUBITAK

4 Apps enrich content and are now live ! ANKOS Consortia Elsevier Application Marketplace Providing common policy agreements among members leading to rational collection growth & more access to e-resources Supporting the mission of higher visibility for Turkish Research Increase visibility and Reputation Open for 3 rd party content and applications Improve workflow efficiency Using Apps along the research process

5 Free apps increasing your research efficiency

6 Screenshots: Co-Author Network 6

7 Screenshots: Recommend This 7

8 Join us in our Developers’ Network: expose your apps to 15 M users ! In discussions Under development Existing Partners

9 Turkish success: Article Output increasing Global competitors of Turkey Outputs# of ArticlesCAGR Total Global7,950, % Articles from Turkey115, % Article Share1.46% Source: SciVal Spotlight 2009 Data Number of articles published between Turkish Scientific Output increased by 5.85 % between (6th in terms of growth rate)

10 The next challenge: Quality improvement! Source: Elsevier Scopus data, 2011

11 International Collaboration is an opportunity # of Documents International Collaboration % Cited Documents Relative low number of Turkish papers have international co-authors. Source: Scimago, 2011, based on Elsevier Scopus data

12 Turkish R&D Strategy builds on its strengths Medical Specialties Chemistry Engineering Strategic Research fields: Energy, Water & Food Techs Major focus on three research fields: Chemistry, Engineering, Medical Specialities Top related disciplines Solar & wind power(E) Inorganic chemistry (C) Circulation (MS) Chemistry shows most multi-disciplinary strengths. Article growth coming from Earth sciences Math & physics Engineering Source: Elsevier Scival, 2009

13 Are you aware of your institute’s contribution ? Source: Elsevier SciVal, 2009 Chemistry is Distinctive Competency # 1 (biggest in article share + market size growth) Main Keywords: sp nov, taxa belonging, methanol extract Strong links with Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Health Sciences, Infectious Diseases

14 Support Funding Governance Support recruiting University of Kiel Research Tools drive Research Excellence Using SciVal for application to Research Excellence Initiative  Received two grants for Marine Sciences and Inflammation Sciences Using SciVal for selection of Professors  Rejected good reputation Profs. not delivering the impact Using Scopus for Awarding funding to researchers throughout the world Strengthening the research system and effectiveness

15  Facilitate collaboration in research  Support evaluation  Promote Turkish research via Apps Direction set, momentum created let’s drive towards excellence

16 Thank You

17 EvaluatingCollaborating ContentApplicationsWorkflows * Promoting * In integration Interoperability is key for smart solutions

18 Recognition - Detail Middle East Techn. University (#183), University of Bilkent (#112) Istanbul University

19 Funding - Detail

20 Info solutions support research excellence Identifying research partners and focusing on areas of excellence, e.g. SciVal Making experts visible increases rankings, e.g. ExpertProfiling, ShowCases (Collexis) Availability of online articles increases research output, e.g. via ScienceDirect or Scopus, books and backfiles Output Recognition Funding Three universities ranked on international level But only 10% of referring peer countries Good performance compared to output and recognition But R&D spend comparably low In line with the neighbour countries But citations and Impact up to 50% behind peer- group on country size