Describing data, expert opinion and external reviews as the three vertices, Mr. Servelle remarked that this triangulation could help arrive at a strategy for research planning. This approach could help analyze research outputs and provide insights to academicians to arrive at conclusions.
Presenting SciVal, which is Elsevier’s research intelligence tools, Mr. Servelle presented various aspects of academic output of institutions in Thailand and compared them across various parameters. “It clearly shows that academic output from Malaysia shot from 2008 onwards, when the government increased its funding to academic and research institutions from 0.6 per cent to over 1 per cent of its GDP.”
Photo caption: Mr. Alexander van Servelle presenting SciVal.