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Rotman
Research
Institute
25
Years
of
Impact
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7/15/2014
2 . 1 . 9 . 1 O u t p u t ( O )
The metric 'Output' measures the number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed
in the Scopus database.
2 . 1 . 9 . 2 H i g h Q u a l i t y P u b l i c a t i o n s ( Q 1 )
The metric 'High Quality Publications' measure the portion of scientific publications that are
published in the most influential scholarly journals in the world. The most influential journals are
those ranked by SCImago Journal Rank based on the prestige gained by the portion of citable
documents (Guerrero-Bote and Moya-Anegon, 2012).
Figure 10 displays the RRI's O and Q1 obtained in each of the SIR reports analyzed.
Figure 10. RRI research output and high quality publications
In the last SIR global report (SIR 2013) the RRI obtained a Q1 of 78%. This indicates that 78%
of the RRI's scientific articles were published in the most influential journals in the Neuroscience
field. (see Table 1 for the list of journals and their impact factors)
2 . 1 . 9 . 3 S p e c i a l i z a t i o n i n d e x ( S p e c . I n d e x )
The RRI's average specialization index (from 4 Global SIR reports) is 0.95 with a standard
deviation of 0.01 (Figure 11). The specialization index indicates the extent of thematic
concentration of an institution's research output, and its values range from 0 (generalist) to
1(specialized). Consequently, the RRI's specialization index of 0.95 means that its research
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