Snowball MetricsSnowball Metrics

What

Snowball metrics can be setup to measure aspects of institutional performance and can be added to Dashboard widgets. This is how to configure and implement them in Pure.

How

• Configure this in your Pure backend under Administrator > Research Intelligence.
• In these configurations you will need to select which of the Snowball indicators you would like to use in your Pure.
  
• Here you can also read about the individual indicators and the background for our calculations.
• After you have setup this page, the Snowball indicators should be selectable in the dashboard.
• Snowball Metrics allow you to compare an Organisational units actual performance with target values.
• Define your target years under Research Definitions > Research Performance Indicators:
  
• On the Organisational unit itself define your targets (see below screenshot) per year (see "indicator year" in below screen shot). Once this is configured, Pure will calculate the deviation between target and performance.
  

Additional Notes

• Collaborations (international, national, unknown):
  • This is pulled from and configured on the external person. If country is not on the external person then the count will appear in "unknown".
• Top Percentiles:
  • No longer supported and there is no current plan to re-add/ support this.
• How the count is calculating for a specific snowball widget:
  • Outputs that are considered collaborative are those where the internal author(s) has (have) collaborated with at least one external person; if that person’s affiliation does not belong to the institution’s country it is considered internationally collaborative, and if it does belong to the institution’s country it is considered nationally collaborative; If the country of the person's affiliation is unknown the output is considered collaborative but will be placed in the unknown category until the country of the person's affiliation is identified. An output is either internationally, nationally collaborative; it cannot be both. However, outputs in the unknown category

More information

More information on Snowball metrics
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