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Indicators for Research Institutions

Explore and Customize Indicators to Track Your Institution's Research Impact

Overview

This section contains a collection of the key performance indicators for the research activities of institutions.
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Production
Research outcome types

Number of research outcomes
  • type (publications, datasets, software, other)
  
Trends

Number of publications over time
  • all
  • peer-reviewed
  • grant-supported
  
Trends

Number of datasets over time
  • all
  
Disciplines Number of publications by FoS
  • over time
  
Social Impact Number of publications by SDGs
  • over time
  
Openness
Publication openness trends

Number of publications over time
  • all
  • open access
  • gold open access
  
Data openness trends Number of research data over time
  • all
  • open access
  
Disciplines Most Open FoS (level 2)
  • gold open access
  
Collaborations
All time

20 top institution collaborators
  • via common project participation
  • via co-authorships (publications)
  
Institution collaborators Trends Number of institution collaborators over time
  • via common project participations
  • via co-authorships (publications)
  • via co-creation (datasets, software)
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Co-funded research outcomes Trends Co-funded research outcomes
  •  over time
  

Funding

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Project participations

Number of projects granted
  • all 
  • funder
  • year
  
EC project participations Number of EC projects granted
  • all
  • year and FP
  
Grant-supported research productivity Grant-supported publications
  • FoS (level 1)
  
Most productive projects Top 30 projects by number of publications
  • all
  • peer reviewed
  
Grant-supported research productivity Grant-supported research outputs
  • funder
  • year
  
Grant-supported research productivity EC Grant-supported research outputs
  • FP, year
  
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Project participations

Number of FP projects granted
  • all 
  • programme
  
FP projects trends

FP Project participations over time
  •  all
  • programme
  
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Project participations

Number of FP projects granted
  • all 
  • pillar
  • programme (top 15 programmes)
  • funding scheme
  
Funding

FP project funding
  • all 
  • pillar
  • programme (top 15 programmes)
  • funding scheme
  
FP projects trends

FP Project participations over time

FP project funding over time
  •  all
  • programme
  • total
  • project and pillar
  

Highest funded projects

Top 15 projects by total project funding

    
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Project participations Number of FP projects granted

 
  • all 
  • programme (top 15 programmes)
  • funding scheme

 

 

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Funding FP project funding
  • total
  • programme (top 15 programmes)
  • funding scheme


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FP projects trends FP Project participations over time FP project funding over time
  •  all
  • programme
  • total
  • project and pillar
  
Highest funded projects Top 15 projects by total project funding    

Research Output

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Publication production

Number of publications
  • all
  • type
  
Publication trends

Number of publications over time
  • all
  • type
  

Publication disciplines

Number of peer-reviewed publications by FoS

    
Publication data sources

Top 15 data sources by number of publications

 

  
Productive projects trend (publications) Share of projects that produced publications over time    
Most productive projects (publications) Top 15 projects by number of produced publications    

Publication interdisciplinarity

Number of peer-reviewed publications by FoS

    
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PR production

Number of PR publications
  • all
  • type
  
PR trends

Number of PR publications over time
  • all
  • type
  
PR publishing

Top 30 publishers by number of peer-reviewed publications

Top 30 journals by number of peer-review publications

 

  
PR disciplines Number of peer-reviewed publications by FoS    
Productive projects trend (PR) Share of projects that produced peer-reviewed publications over time    
Most productive projects (PR) Top 15 projects by number of produced peer-reviewed publications    
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Dataset production

Number of datasets
  • all
  • type
  
Dataset trend

Number of datasets over time

 

  
Dataset data sources

Top 15 data sources by number of datasets

 

  
Datasets linked to publications Number of datasets linked to publications
  • all
  • FoS of linked publication
  • journal of publication (top 15)
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Productive projects trend (datasets) Share of projects that produced datasets over time    
Most productive projects (datasets) Top 15 projects by number of produced datasets    
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Software production

Number of software

 

  
Software trend

Number of software over time

 

  
Software data sources

Top 15 data sources by number of software

 

  
Software linked to publications Number of software linked to publications
  • all
  • FoS of linked publication
  • journal of publication (top 15)
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Software linked to datasets Number of software linked to datasets   Coming soon
Productive projects trend (software) Share of projects that produced software over time    
Most productive projects (software) Top 15 projects by number of produced software    
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ORPs production

Number of ORPs

 

  
ORPs trend Number of ORPs over time    
ORPs data sources

Top 15 data sources by number of ORPs by repository

    
Productive projects trend (ORPs) Share of projects that produced ORPs over time    
Most productive projects (ORPs) Top 15 projects by number of produced ORPs    

Open Science

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Openness

Institutional openness score (average share of open access research output)
  • overall
  • year
  • FoS



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Findability

Institutional findability score (average share of research output with a PID)
  • overall
  • year
  • FoS



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FAIRness

Institutional “FAIRness” score (average share of research output with metadata completeness)
  • overall
  • year
  • FoS



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Access Rights
Publications by access rights

Number and share of publications by access rights
  • all
  • year
  • by funder
  
Open Access Routes
Publication open access routes

Number and share of publications by open access routes (green, gold, hybrid, bronze)
  • all
  • funder (top 15 funders)
  • by FoS
  
Publication open access routes trends

Number and share of publications by open access routes (green, gold, hybrid, bronze) over time

Published (gold, hybrid, bronze) vs Deposited (green) open access publications over time

    
Top journals (open access routes) Top 20 journals
  • number of gold publications
  • number of hybrid publications
  • number of bronze publications
  
Top repositories Top 20 Data Sources by number of green publications    
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Open access publications by journal business model

Number of publications published in a journal that is currently under the following business model

  • Full open access with APC
  • Diamond
  • Transformative
  • all
  • year
  • grant support (funded vs. not funded)
  
Top journals by journal business model

Top 15 journals by number of publications published in a journal that is currently under the following business model

  • Full open access with APC
  • Diamond
  • Transformative
    
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Publications with APCs

Number of publications that paid an APC

Number of publications with an extrapolated APC

 

  
APCs

Total (extrapolated) APC paid
  • all
  • journal (top 30 journals)
  • FoS
  • grant supported vs not grant supported publications
  • gold vs hybrid
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APCs trends

Total (extrapolated) APC paid
  • all
  • gold vs hybrid
  
APCs

Average (extrapolated) APC paid per publication
  • all
  • journal (top 30 journals)
  • FoS
  • grant supported vs not grant supported publications
  • gold vs hybrid
  • plan S funder








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APCs trends

Average (extrapolated) APC paid per publication over time
  • all
  • gold vs hybrid
  
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Peer Reviewed Publications published in Plan S-compliant Journals

Number and share of Open Access Peer Reviewed Publications published in Plan S-compliant Journals:

  • in Diamond OA Journal
  • Gold OA with APCs
  • under Transformative Agreement
  • in Transformative Journal
  • Other Journals
  • all
  • year
  • access rights
  • FoS
  • Funder (Top Funders)
  
Top Funders

Number and share of Open Access Peer Reviewed Publications published in Plan S-compliant Journals:

  • in Diamond OA Journal
  • Gold OA with APCs
  • under Transformative Agreement
  • in Transformative Journal
    
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FAIRness score (publications)

Institutional “FAIRness” score for publications (average share of publications with metadata completeness)
  • peer-review status
  • year
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Publications with a PID

Number and share of publications with a PID in their metadata
  • year
  • type of PID
  
Open access publications with a license Number and share of open access publications with a CC or other type of license in their metadata
  • year
  • type of license
  
Publications with an ORCID iD Number and share of publications with an ORCID iD in their metadata
  • year
  
Publications with an abstract Number and share of publications with an abstract in their metadata
  • year
  
Grant-supported publications with a funding reference Number and share of grant-supported publications with a funding reference in their metadata
  • year
  
Publications by number of duplicates Number of publications by the number of duplicates/copies found in different data sources ingested in the OpenAIRE Graph    
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Datasets by access rights

Number and share of datasets by access rights
  • all
  • year
  • funder
  • data source (top 20)
  
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FAIRness score (datasets)

Institutional “FAIRness” score for datasets (average share of datasets with metadata completeness)
  • all
  • year
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Datasets with a PID

Number and share of datasets with a PID in their metadata
  • year
  • type of PID
  
Open access datasets with a license Number and share of open access datasets with a CC or other license in their metadata
  • year
  • type of CC license
  
Datasets with an ORCID iD Number and share of datasets with an ORCID iD in their metadata
  • year
  
Grant-supported datasets with a funding reference Number and share of grant-supported datasets with a funding reference in their metadata
  • year
  
Datasets by number of duplicates Number of datasets by the number of duplicates/copies found in different data sources ingested in the OpenAIRE Graph

 

  
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Software by access rights

Number and share of software by access rights
  • all
  • year
  • funder
  • data source (top 20)
  
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FAIRness score (software)

Institutional “FAIRness” score for software (average share of software with metadata completeness)
  • all
  • year
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Software with a PID

Number and share of software with a PID in their metadata
  • year
  • type of PID
  
Open source software with a license Number and share of open source software with a CC or other license in their metadata
  • year
  • type of CC license
  
Software with an ORCID iD Number and share of software with an ORCID iD in their metadata
  • year
  
Grant-supported software with a funding reference Number and share of grant-supported software with a funding reference in their metadata
  •  year
  
Software by number of duplicates Number of software by the number of duplicates/copies found in different data sources ingested in the OpenAIRE Graph

 

  

Collaborations

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Project collaborations

Number of collaborations with organisations via joint project participation
  • all
  • collaborating organisations (top 20)
  • country of collaborating organisation
  
Co-funded research output Number of institutional research outputs funded by more than one funder
  • type (publications, datasets, software, other)
  
Co-funded research output trend

Number of institutional research outputs funded by more than one funder over time

    
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Co-authored publications

Number of collaborations with organisations via co-authored publications
  • all
  • co-author organisation (top 20)
  • country of co-author organisation
  • FoS






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Collaboration index distribution (publications)

Distribution of number of authors per publication

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Collaboration index trend (publications) Average number of authors per publication over time
  •  all
  • access rights
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Co-created datasets

Number of collaborations with organisations via co-created datasets
  • all
  • co-creator organisation (top 20)
  • country of co-creator organisation
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Collaboration index distribution (datasets)

Distribution of number of creators per dataset

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Collaboration index trend (datasets) Average number of creators per dataset over time

 

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Co-created software

Number of collaborations with organisations via co-created software
  • all
  • co-creator organisation (top 20)
  • country of co-creator organisation
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Collaboration index distribution (software)

Distribution of number of creators per software

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Collaboration index trend (software) Average number of creators per software over time

 

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Impact

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Total publication downloads trends

Total number of publication downloads
  • all
  • year of publication
  • year of download
  • year of download and access rights
  • year of download and open access route
  • year of download and abstract availability in metadata
  • FoS
  
Average downloads per publication trends

Average number of downloads per publication
  • all
  • year of publication
  • year of download
  • year of download and access rights
  • year of download and open access route
  • year of download and abstract availability in metadata
  • FoS
  
Top journals (downloads) Top 30 journals by number of publication downloads from repositories

 

  
Top FoS (downloads) Most downloaded FoS (level 20)    

 

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Total citations trends

Total number of citations
  • all
  • year 
  • access rights
  • open access route
  • FoS
  • funder (top funders)
  • publisher (top publishers)
  • journal (top journals)
  

Average citations per publication trends

Average number of citations per publication
  • all
  • year 
  • access rights
  • open access route
  • FoS
  • funder (top funders)
  • publisher (top publishers)
  • journal (top journals)
  
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SDGs coverage

Number of publications
  • all
  • related to an SDG
  

Publications related to an SDG

Number of publications by SDGs
  • access rights
  • open acces route
  • FoS
  

Publications related to an SDG trends

Number of publications related to an SDG over time
  • all
  • type
  

Publications related to an SDG disciplinarity

Number of publications related to an SDG by FoS

    

APCs for Publications related to an SDG

APCs paid for publications related to an SDG
  • total APCs
  • average APCs per publication
  

Publications related to an SDG citation

Citations for publications related to an SDG
  • total citations
  • average citations per publication
  
Publications related to an SDG downloads

Downloads for publications related to an SDG
  • total downloads
  • average downloads per publication