About the SRI

26
Swedish HEIs
10
Years of data

Strategic Research Index

The Strategic Research Index (SRI) is a data-driven analysis of how Swedish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) conduct strategic research, i.e. being both of excellent international scientific quality while also being beneficial to Swedish society. Only HEIs that conduct significant research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine are included. The SRI is based on data from ten indicators (in percentages, %), defining five main categories:

Research

  • Highly cited publications

Mobility

  • Externally employed doctoral students
  • Adjunct researchers

Attractiveness

  • Industrial funding
  • External national funding

Internationalisation

  • Internationally co-authored publications
  • External international funding
  • International research staff

Utilisation

  • Non-academic collaborations
  • Publications cited in patents

The SRI of an HEI is defined by SSF as a weighted mean value, where each category has equal weight, and each indicator defining a category has equal weight. Average values for all Swedish HEIs are shown for reference. The user can decide to not include one or more categories. If so, the resultant value is not SRI but is instead indicated by "Mean". The user can select an HEI for a one-page scorecard of this HEI. The data is here shown for all categories and indicators and for all included years. This scorecard might be helpful for further user analyses.


SRI data sources

The SRI contains only indicators where objective data are publicly available. The indicator data come from three main sources:

Data on Swedish HEIs

From UKÄ (Swedish Higher Education Authority)

Data on publications

From the Scopus publication database

Data on patents

From the European Patent Office's PATSTAT database

Additional Resources

SSF can provide researchers and analysts with access to the full SRI dataset (Excel) for in-depth analysis beyond this web tool. Please contact SSF by email with the subject “SRI dataset access” to:

Download the SRI methodology report (PDF) for detailed information on the SRI data analysis.