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Philadelphia, PA, London, UK, May 5, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - Thomson Reuters, the authority on research analytics and decision support citation data for more than half a century, today announced that it has launched its Academic Reputation Survey for 2011.
The survey, which will remain open until May 20th, is the largest of its kind ever undertaken by Thomson Reuters. Survey respondents are asked which institutions they consider the best in terms of research, teaching and by other factors such as geographical region. The assessments gathered through the survey will be combined with other key variables to form a comprehensive profile for each institution.
During the next two weeks, thousands of respondents will have the opportunity to answer a range of questions focused on six subject areas: engineering and technology; physical sciences; life sciences; clinical, preclinical and health; social sciences; and arts and humanities.
To help control for language and translation bias the Academic Reputation Survey will be offered in nine languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, English, and for the first time, Arabic.
"We've had a great start to this year's survey with responses already pouring in," said Jonathan Adams, director of research evaluation at Thomson Reuters. "'We're particularly pleased to offer the survey in Arabic for the first time. Other surveys have been criticized for over-representing North America and Europe, so we took particular care to better balance regional representation."
The survey forms part of Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project, an initiative that will create data-driven profiles of globally significant research institutions. It also will help inform the Times Higher Education's influential World University Rankings and represents the largest single reputation survey used in the rankings to date.
Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project combines reputational feedback, scholarly outputs, citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics across disciplines in one comprehensive database. The dataset can be packaged and analyzed to different specifications, giving organizations custom information for evaluating and benchmarking their performance and supporting efforts to secure research funding.
Thomson Reuters will continue to analyze and release detailed results of the Academic Reputation Survey in the coming months. For more information and resources, please visit http://science.thomsonreuters.com/globalprofilesproject.
Contact:
Paul Sandell
Manager, PR & Communications
IP & Science
+44 207 433 4704
paul.sandell@thomsonreuters.com
This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf of Thomson Reuters clients.
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