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Research Evaluation

Research Evalution Evaluation is crucial for quality assurance in research. WU’s research performance is evaluated regularly based on standardized key performance indicators for the WU. Evaluation processses and tools are:

  • Evaluation of WU’s organizational units

  • Intellectual Capital Report (Wissensbilanz)

  • Scoreboard and KPIs

  • Research Management System PURE

  • Activity Reports

If you need specific indicators for your organisational unit or specific data from PURE, please send us a request via Jira.

Evaluation of WU’s organizational units

Pursuant to the WU By-Laws, all organizational units must be evaluated on a regular basis. These evaluations are based on a basic model with 20 indicators in four dimensions that was developed by the Working Group on Research (as part of the WU 2020 process). The target indicators agreed upon between the Rector’s Council and the individual organizational units as part of the units’ target agreements are monitored on a regular basis. Based on these annual feedback loops, further steps and measures are then defined (adjustments of target indicators, external evaluation, etc.).

Activity Reports

The Activity Reports are intended to provide an accurate representation of the faculty's performance in research, teaching and administration.

Based on up-to-date data, the tool "Activity Report on Demand" enables you to generate your personal Activity Report as storable PDF file. You can download your report in both German and English.

Data for your Activity Report are taken from the central WU databases: Data concerning your research output originate from PURE, data concerning teaching (2) from BACH and personnel data (0) and the data on third party funding (1b) from SAP.

SciVal at WU

In early 2016, WU introduced the bibliometrics tool SciVal to analyze WU’s research output data. SciVal can compare the data of individual researchers, groups of researchers, or entire organizations, based on bibliometric information from the Scopus database. It is available at www.scival.com (external login) and can be accessed freely from any device with a WU IP address. Further information on SciVal and its functionalities can be found in the internal SciVal Wiki.