ARRA's experience in the identification of top research teams:

Basic Principles Time scale – 2001 to 2010 9 steps to teams assessment – no K.O. criteria Steps 1-2 focus on individual team members – their overallperformance and the contribution to the quality of the team Steps 3-5 focus on the team‟s performance – quantity, qualityand the effectiveness of published papers Steps 6-8 assess team‟s exceptional articles and their relativeimpact Step 9 describes the progress of the team during theevaluated period All comparisons were done against international benchmarks „Avg citation per article‟ was also compared with the world‟sbest 35 universities (top 25 from: ARWU, USN&WR, TimesHE)8