Scholarly Benchmarking Solution

The Vendor is required to provide scholarly benchmarking solution for a high-UX database, data visualization, and reporting tool suite that must utilize individual university scholars as the base unit record to:
• Benchmark the scholarly output (including but not limited to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, citations, grants, and honorific awards) of individual faculty, specific academic doctoral programs, academic departments, academic colleges, the university, and customized intra-university groups against analogous groupings at other institutions.
• Benchmarking should have longitudinal capability using frozen datasets.
• On-the-fly user-created national peer groupings
• Continuously (daily preferred) updated scholarly data at the individual level to: (i) prepopulate scholarly profiles of individuals; (ii) enable individuals to edit these profiles; (iii) provide a turnkey solution for scholars to identify, and receive via opt-in push notifications, funding and honorific award opportunities tailored to them on the basis of scholarly data; (iv) provide extant actual demonstrated ability to push metadata to and pull metadata from the university tenure and reappointment and annual evaluation solution (watermark’s faculty success); and (v) utilize daily data to generate a curated public web-based presence showcasing the university’s scholarship (at the university, academic program, academic department, and custom unit levels), searchable by faculty name and scholarly expertise, and nationally-based individual-to-individual scholarly networks.
• Provide a selection of on-demand dynamic visualization-style reports including, but not limited to: identifying scholars who are under-awarded compared to national peers; trending research topics and emerging themes; understanding demographic distributions of NRC prestigious awards across the university; exploring the movement of faculty across categories of institutions; analyzing scholar disciplinary trends by demographics such as academic age, discipline, rank, publication and grant patterns, etc.; analysis of federal grant activity at the university compared to customizable peer institution sets; discover scholarly activity.
• Include a license agreement that allows cogent unlimited custom requests including, but not limited to, custom intra-university groupings, custom external benchmarks, trending research topics, emerging research themes, and top journal publishing analysis.
• Role-based individual-level access to these tools and datasets.
• Synchronous and asynchronous dedicated training and ongoing professional development opportunities for university users (whether staff, administrators, or faculty) in utilizing the solution described above to advance scholarship, recognition, and wise stewardship of resources (whether human or capital).
- Hosted SaaS solution requiring no on-premises infrastructure.
- The solution shall be accessible through modern web browsers and require no client-side software installation apart from limited API integration described in the next section.
- The solution shall support role-based access controls and authentication through institutional single sign-on.
- The solution shall provide web-based dashboards and visualizations with the option for role-based ability to export data.
- The solution shall support institution, college, department, and program level reporting.
- The solution shall provide benchmarking against similar unit-levels at other institutions with user customization regarding peers and metric weightings.
- The solution shall also provide ability to aggregate and display scholarly outputs and metrics at individual scholar and institution, department, and college unit levels.
- AI-assisted analytics capabilities and collaboration network mapping are not requirements, but are deemed desirable and viewed favorably as solution features.