Karl H. Mller

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Overview of the Austrian Research Landscape

• Karl H. Müller
• Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation
  and Methodology (WISDOM)
• June 22, 2009

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An Overview of an Overview

• Two Mappings of the Austrian Science Landscapes
• Maping I The Austrian Social Sciences and Their
  Involvement in the Framework Program of the
  European Commission (FP5)
• Mapping II Mapping the Austrian Science Landscape

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Mapping the Social Sciences

• Datebase
• 185 Social Science Institutes
• Classification of Research Topics
• Web-Search

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Overall Results I Distribution of Topics
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Overall Results II Landscape of Topics

• Technology, Innovation, and Media (112)
• Social and Welfare Policy, Living Conditions
  (103)
• Health and Ageing ( 96)
• Employment and Labour (95)
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• Education and Learning (74)
• Migration, Integration and Xenophobia (64) 
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• Politics, Organisations and Institutions (46)
• Environment (44)
• Regional, Urban ( 39)
• Gender (38)
• Europe, European Union (34)
• Science Policy (33)
• Public Safety, Human Rights (31)

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Overall Results III Failures and Successes
(First Call)
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Overall Results IV Failures and Successes
(Second Call)
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Mapping II The Austrian Science Landscape

• Survey of 300 Institues across All Domains
• Topics of the Survey
• Basic Information
• Employment
• Internal Organization
• Infrastructures and Finance
• Publications
• Research Projects
• Cognitive Orientation
• Social Contacts
• Cooperations
• Conference Participations
• Perceived Barriers
• Awards
• Self-Evaluations

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Overall Results I Different Profiles for the
Natural Sciences, the Technical Sciences, the
Social Sciences and theHumanities
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Overall Results II A Consistent Rank-Ordering

• Rank-Ordering across All Relevant Survey Domains
• Technical Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Humanities