1. Driving excellence in research – exclusion of collaborative publications? Driving excellence in research – exclusion of collaborative publications? Sergey Kireev Dean, professor National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) 07.04.2016

2. Interfax RAEX 2 2 3 3 National Russian Rankings BRICS & EMERGING ECONOMIES BRICS & EMERGING ECONOMIES PHYSICAL SCIENCES EMERGING EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BRICS 26 36 22 51-100 5151 5151 MEPhI in university rankings 2015-2016 MEPhI is included in TOP-100 subject rankings: THE Physical Sciences QS Physics & Astronomy 2 251-300 THE WUR 501-550 QS WUR

3. Experimental nuclear physics laboratory Nano-bio-engineering laboratory in partnership Laboratory of silicon photomultipliers International research laboratories at MEPhI New laboratories at MEPhI Laboratory Plasma-surface interaction and Plasma Technology Laboratory of Electromagnetic Methods of New Materials Production 1818

4. Driving excellence in research. MEPhI in international research collaborations MEPhI in international research collaborations ICECUBE MEPhI is the participant of major international collaborations on installations of mega-science: ATLAS, ALICE, CMS at CERN; FAIR, XFEL at DASY (Germany); ITER (France); ICECUBE, PAMELA (Italy), STAR and PHENIX (USA); T2K (Japan); SHIP, NSW (CERN), LZ (USA), BELLE (Japan) 4

5. Result: highly citied publications from these collaborations are excluded from THE and QS rankings Driving excellence in research – exclusion of collaborative publications? – normalization? – normalization? World average in Physics Publications2.82 mln. Citations17.4 mln. Citations/Paper6.16 World average in Life Sciences Publications3.68 mln. Citations22.1 mln. Citations/Paper6 ATLAS Collaboration, CERN Publications1.865 Citations22.588 Citations/Paper22.11 Authors3.000 Organizations151 Cancer genome atlas research network Publications27 Citations7.703 Citations/Paper285 Authors100+ Organizations62 5

6. Driving excellence in research: Wrong score CitationsFacultyCitations/Faculty Ratio QS Score National Research Nuclear University MEPhI 16.8191.12314.982.2 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 5.1911.1004.722.3 Moscow State Institute of International Relations 661.3250.055.7 False mirror: Is 0.05 more than 14.98? Surprise – 300 times better citation gives a score which is 2.6 times smaller. Normalization might lead to anomalous results 6

7. Suggestions Stable methodology The methodology should be as stable as possible Some cosmetic changes are welcome but not the big ones Counting collaborative publications For large collaborations (over 10 organizations) to reduce the number of citations by factor 1.2 instead of total exclusion publications of such collaboration 7

8. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) Thank you for attention