Assessing
research impact
Support from
Team Research Intelligence
11 December 2025
Research impact:
The role of the library
Provide information
- Pure for registration
- Access to metadata and derived indicators
- Advise on use of responsible metrics
Research Portal: https://research.vu.nl/
More active support
- Analysis and interpretation
- Focus on strategic decision making
What support does team RI provide?
We demonstrate research impact by …
- Collecting data on research unit
- for group, department, faculty
- linking those data to indicators
- citations, media attention, impact on policy, SDGs
- giving insight into impact to improve decision making.
- visualisations, interactive dashboards
How is this used?
- Support for research policy
- Support for evaluation (SEP)
- Explore for cooperation
- Explore for appointments
- …
Examples
Ongoing developments
Metrics for TTANPRA
- Exploring information on preprints, research data, software
- Relevant for “Rewards and Recognition” program
- Relevant for open science
More open, less proprietary data
Commitment to open research assessment
- Open data sources where possible
- Not fully open yet (if ever)
- Decreasing usage of proprietary sources
Web of Science license ending 2025
- Primarily values-based decision
- Finance is never irrelevant
- Known issues:
- Systematic literature reviews
- SBE: use of Article Influence Score
- Exploring open workflows
Takeaways
Research Intelligence
- Research Intelligence supports research units in making informed decisions
- We provide data, insights, and tools to analyse research impact
Innovation and collaboration
- Many new developments for research assessment
- We are open to new ideas and collaboration
- Contact us to discuss!