On 21 October 2022, the Rectorate invited all interested members of the WWW to the ‘WWU Forum Research Profiles’ to inform and discuss structure-building cutting-edge research at the University of Münster. The forum, organised by the Future Lab, offered emerging large-scale research networks the opportunity to introduce themselves to the university public. Existing large-scale collaborations were able to present themselves with a poster at the Excellence Research Fair and engage in dialogue and exchange with interested parties in a relaxed atmosphere. Representatives of the two Clusters of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’ and ‘Mathematics Münster’ also reported on their experiences as structure-forming research networks at the WWU.
As part of the development of bibliometric competences at the WWU, SciVal was initially licensed for a test period of two years.
SciVal provides access to the publication history of more than 20,000 research institutions and 230 nations worldwide. Based on the Scopus publication database, a high level of coverage is achieved in the natural and life sciences; however, there are considerable gaps in the humanities and social sciences and with regard to German-language publications.
