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CITATION & INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 Methodology - Citation Awards 2012 This exploration of Australian research began with an identification of fields which were strengths for the country, by a combination of three criteria: first, how many papers Australian researchers published; second, how great a proportion of the field globally Australian research represented; and third, the level of impact, measured in citations, relative to global performance in the field. The next step was to consider individuals who contribute to those fields. All Australian-affiliated authors from papers published between 2002 and October 2011, in journals indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, were reviewed. A shortlist of researchers in each field was established by finding those authors who had published a given number of papers, each of which had been cited that given number of times – a metric called the h-index. This meant that only researchers who had made a strong contribution in terms of both quality and quantity were considered. Because field activity can vary widely, adjustments were made in the threshold levels for each field to eliminate false leads and focus on those researchers with substantial and long-term contributions. The shortlist was then ranked by average citations per paper received, and the highest ranking author currently and actively producing research output was identified. This ensured that researchers would be selected who had a proven track record of high-impact research over the course of the ten year period. Where variation between the top and second ranked candidates was less than one citation per article, a second metric, average percentile, was used to differentiate them. This metric looks at how highly ranked a paper is by citations against papers of the same type, published in the same year and in the same field, thereby allowing accurate comparison of the candidates’ impact. Field of Study Names Institution H-Index Cites Publications Astronomy & Astrophysics Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biodiversity Conservation Professor Karl Glazebrook 9 Swinburne University of Technology Professor Terry Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Dr Jane Elith University of Melbourne Ecology Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland 69 22,245 181 51 19,623 263 25 2,986 42 39 8,623 172 Economics Dr Tommy Wiedmann CSIRO 15 574 25 Environmental Studies Dr Shaobin Wang Curtin University 32 3,018 129 Geosciences Professor Kurt Lambeck Immunology Professor Fabienne Mackay Australian National University Monash University Neurosciences Dr Greg Stuart Australian National University 52 9,682 217 46 8,297 105 39 6,585 71 Plant Sciences Professor Rana Munns CSIRO 45 9,848 114 Psychology Professor Colin MacLeod Public, Environmental & Occupational Health University of Western Australia Dr Evie Leslie Flinders University 25 5,062 53 18 2,149 36
CITATION & INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 Methodology - Innovation Awards 2012 The methodology used to determine the 2012 Australian Innovation Award winners is based closely on the methodology used in the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Program. The methodology used to determine the Top 100 Global Innovators was developed by Thomson Reuters and discussed with and approved by several IP-savvy, external organisations. This is the first time Thomson Reuters has awarded innovation and entrepreneurship in Australia. Seven awards are presented: Large Corporate and SME Corporate (Biotechnology/Medical Devices), Large Corporate and SME Corporate (Technology), Government Funded R&D, University R&D and Best Academic/Corporate Collaboration. The awards recognise Australian innovation resulting from institutions and large and Smallto-Medium sized (SME) commercial enterprises headquartered in Australia. Australian SME Corporations are those with less than 200 employees. The research and analyses used to determine the award winners was performed using Thomson Reuters’ Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Thomson Innovation®, the Thomson Reuters IP intelligence and collaboration platform, and Thomson Data Analyzer®. Four indicators were used to determine the winners: • VOLUME: The top 10 most prolific patent filers in Australia over the last 5 years were identified. These organisations became the “candidate organisations”. • SUCCESS: For each candidate organisation, the number of granted patents to total number of new inventions filed in the last 5 years was used as a measure of “success”. • GLOBALISATION: The number of inventions filed in the last 5 years that have quadrilateral patents in their patent families, according to the Thomson Reuters Quadrilateral Patent Index was calculated for each candidate organisation. • INFLUENCE: The impact of an invention can be determined by looking at how often it is subsequently cited down the line. Citation counts were determined for each of the candidate organisations to provide a measure of the “influence” of their inventions filed in the last 5 years. These indicators were used in combination to identify the 2012 Australian Innovation Award winners. Category Organisation Corporate – Bio/Med (Large) ResMed Corporate – Bio/Med (SME) CathRx Corporate – Tech (Large) Rio Tinto Corporate – Tech (SME) Demain Technology Government Funded Grains Research & Development Corporation University University of New South Wales Collaboration University of Queensland & Eden Innovation 10
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