by crauter | Jan 19, 2015 | REF, Research News
The 1,911 submissions made by 154 UK universities to the 2014 REF have now been published on the REF website. The submissions included 52,061 academic staff, 191,150 research outputs and 6,975 case studies on the impact of research. To access the submissions visit:...
by crauter | Dec 18, 2014 | REF
Swansea University has had a tremendous REF! Read all about it ! For the full results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 visit http://www.ref.ac.uk/.
by crauter | Feb 14, 2014 | REF
HEFCE have published a summary of the submission for REF 2014: http://www.ref.ac.uk/subguide/ The REF outcomes will not be published until Dec. 2014 2014 02 14
by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Publishing, REF, Research Impact
According to a paper uploaded to arXiv in April 2013, papers now need about twice as many citations to rank in the top 5% or 1% papers as they did 40 years ago. Since the late 1980s, a decreasing proportion of top cited papers have been published in elite journals....
by crauter | May 14, 2012 | Publishing, REF, Research News
Some academics are still sometimes concerned that publishing in an Open Access journal may not have the same kudos as a subscription journal with a high impact factor. But now, following Willets’ speech to the publishers last week, there is speculation that the...
by crauter | Jan 4, 2012 | REF
Swansea University Library now has a subscription to SCOPUS. SCOPUS is the largest abstract and citation database of both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With nearly 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide, SCOPUS offers researchers a...
