Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Location: Bern
Discipline: Research Management
Affiliation: State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
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The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is the largest Swiss foundation promoting scientific research.
How much impact does research carried out at individual universities have on innovation globally? To find out, a team of scientists from several schools developed a ranking system based on citations in patent literature. And on that score, EPFL sits in seventh place, just behind Stanford and above the California Institute of Technology.
With citation indexes being routinely questioned, 'alternative metrics' could gain ground as a new indicator of research success. But can they be trusted? By Roland Fischer (From "Horizons" no. 108 March 2016) What were the most successful research publications of 2015? It's a seemingly harmless question, but until recently, no one would have asked it.
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement provides Swiss researchers with access to SpringerLink with over 2'000 Hybrid journals and enables authors affiliated with the Swiss academic and research institutions to publish their accepted research papers Open Access, making this primary research immediately and freely accessible from the point of publication.
In ETH E-Citations, the institutional bibliography of ETH Zurich, a little over 12,000 publications have been entered for the publication year of 2015.
