CWTS BV
CWTS B.V., a business company affiliated to CWTS and owned by Leiden University, offers a range of bibliometric products and services. These products and services are organized into three categories: Monitoring & Evaluation, Advanced Analytics, and Training & Education.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Our Monitoring & Evaluation products aim to assess research performance in comparison with international benchmark values worldwide and/or relevant benchmark institutes. Research performance is measured based on a range of bibliometric indicators. Four key dimensions of performance are measured bibliometrically: Output, impact, context, and collaboration.
Advanced Analytics
Our Advanced Analytics products combine the powerful techniques of network analysis, text mining, and visualization to provide our clients with customized and sophisticated bibliometric analyses for highly specific purposes. All our analyses are fully supported by pre-developed techniques and tools, such as VOSviewer, which is a science mapping and network analysis application developed in house.
Training & Education
CWTS B.V. offers a range of courses on using bibliometric analyses for research management and research evaluation. Courses are regularly held in Leiden and we are also pleased to organize tailor-made on-site training courses. Our courses provide bibliometric analysis users with the knowledge and skills they need to interpret bibliometric statistics properly and usefully.
Bibliometrics for Research Management and Research Evaluation
In the report Bibliometrics for Research Management and Research Evaluation - A Brief Introduction, CWTS brings together essential information about the use of bibliometrics in research management and research evaluation. This report is intended for anyone with a professional interest in the application of bibliometrics in a research management and research evaluation context. The report is available here.