Research statistics RU-Research-Strategy

About half of RU publications in peer-reviewed outlets are now in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, see figure 1, and the total number of publications in peer-reviewed outlets has markedly increased in the last couple of years, i.e. increased fourfold (see figure 2).


Figure 1: Number of RU affiliated publications in peer-reviewed outlets 2010 (Source: RU Research Reports 2010).












Figure 2: Number of RU affiliated publications in peer-reviewed outlets 2007-2010 (Source: RU Research Reports 2007-2010).










Not only has the number of articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals been increasing gradually last couple of years, but the proportion of articles published in ISI journals has also increased markedly, i.e. from 55% in the year 2007 to 78% in 2010, see figure 3.