Previous National Bibliometric reports by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology have concentrated on the performance of the research and innovation sector as a whole. Those reports have included data on the tertiary sector as a whole. This new report uses disaggregated data from the Thomson-ISI New Zealand National Citation Report database to report on individual university performance. Specifically, this report analyses the research publications by New Zealand universities for the period 1997 to 2003 and the citations attached to those publications.
Purpose
The objective of this report is to describe the production, productivity and impact of the research publications produced by the universities. This is achieved by:
• Determining the number of publications produced by universities and indexed by Thomson-ISI
• Determining the research productivity of universities by adjusting for size of the academic workforce
• Determining the number of publications produced by universities in various research fields
• Determining the impact of university publications through comparing citation rates
• Comparing the performance of the universities against the full New Zealand research and innovation sector