Example 10.2: Benchmarking Thai and Malaysian Institutions

1. Identify the top two universities in Malaysia and Thailand based on total number of publications from 2004 -2014 (Universiti Malaya and Universiti Sans Malaysia, Mahidol and Chulalongkorn)

2. Identify other universities in an Asian group with similar output and compare metrics And add to benchmarks (select one from China, Hong Kong, South Korean, and Japan)

FIGURE 10.2 Screen shot of selected institutions for benchmarking

Universities from China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea were selected from the list of all institutions to compare with the two Thai and Malaysian institutions.

From InCites Analytics by Institutions, April 2015

2a: Expand the available data to include non-bibliometric indicators including reputation Note that these Malaysia institutions do not have non-bibliometric indicators;

3. See how these universities rank within InCites. Figure 10. 2 (Example 2) is a screen shot of my four universities, their benchmark comparisons and how the rest of the screen appears.

4. See where these universities rank in the world using the NTU world rank

4a: See sample indicators in the spreadsheet Example 10.2, below:

Example 10. 2: Benchmarking Top Universities in Malaysia and Thailand compared to peers in the region

Ran Cite Ran Ran Ran NTU Incites # k s k Category k % k Worl Academ Normaliz Highl d ic WOS Times Col per Col ed Col y Col Research for Doc Cite Reputati Name Rank World s Cited F Doc H Impact J Cited L on

1798 Universiti Malaya 470 382 1 80103 7 4.45 7 0.87 5 0.9 4 nr Hong Kong U of Science & 1793 22166 Technology 333 384 2 4 1 12.4 1 1.51 1 1.49 1 47.5243 1764 13776 Xiamen University (CN) 356 390 2 8 4 7.81 4 0.96 4 1.13 3 1441 13872 Mahidol University (TH) 460 471 9 3 3 4.45 7 1.01 2 0.74 6 6.1252 Chulalongkorn University 1401 10263 (TH) nr 487 7 2 6 7.32 5 0.86 6 0.54 8 5.1454 1361 14117 Kanazawa University (JN) nr 585 6 2 2 10.4 3 0.81 7 0.57 7 1.971 1396 Universiti Sains Malaysia nr 490 1 72404 8 5.19 6 0.8 8 0.76 5 nr Ewha Womans University 1090 11724 (SK) 429 596 5 6 5 10.8 2 1.00 3 1.17 2 1.4366