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Each faculty has Cristin contacts /super users who guide and inform about how to register and upload full text versions in Cristin. These quality assure the registered data which is reported to DBH (Database for Statistics on Higher Education).
As of October 1, all project managers associated with Cristin are obliged to use the Research Council's project number when registering articles in the database. See the instruction for registering the Research Council's project number in Cristin.
You can also register project information in Cristin. More information about this can be found in the project guide (R&D handbook).
Category | Weight: Level 1 | Weight: Level 2 |
---|---|---|
Monography | 5 | 8 |
Article in anthology | 0,7 | 1 |
Article in periodicals and series | 1 | 3 |
Remember to register all your publications in Cristin.
Achieved dissemination points give credits to the faculty / institute through the university internal model for the allocation of the R&D component's incentive part in the state budget allocation
Through the allocation of dissemination points, activity which is not supported by state funding gets promoted. Departments and not individuals are awarded the funds.
Main category |
Sub category |
Weight |
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Journal publication |
Popular science article Feature article |
3 |
Conference contributions and academic presentation |
Scientific lecture |
3 |
Meda contributions |
Documentary |
5 |
Artistic and museum presentation |
Museum Exhibition |
15 |
Other | 3 | |
Book |
Text book |
10 |
Generally, an author is considered to be someone who has made a substantive intellectual contribution to a published study. This normally includes anyone who has:
These widely accepted guidelines set a high standard. However there are no universally accepted standards for attributing authorship and there is great variation in practice among different disciplines, research fields and journals.
The institutional affiliation identifies the location where the author or authors were when the research was conducted.
Multiple affiliations occur when an author belongs to more than one organization that has contributed substantially to a research project.
The address where the author has his/her main position must be listed first.
Employees or students who write or co-write a publication should use "OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet" or "OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University" when crediting the university.
The sub-units' name (faculties, institutes, centers, etc.) may also be included if desired.
The main rule for crediting institutions in an academic publication includes the following:
For PhD students who are employed at an institution other than OsloMet, the doctoral institution (OsloMet) has an overarching academic responsibility for the candidate, usually by the (main) supervisor following the candidate’s research work until publication. In such cases, the author shall register both institutions in the publication.
The doctoral institution shall be used as the author's address in a publication in addition to the employer when the degree institution has made a significant contribution via supervision, equipment, work environment, or otherwise. Performing the supervisory responsibility for the publication in question constitutes a sufficient contribution. If this contribution is supervision, less contribution is required than that necessary for the supervisor to be co-author of the work in question.
PhD candidates employed at OsloMet must list OsloMet as the author address, as must other academic staff, provided that the publication is a product of work performed in the position at OsloMet.
The same author must also credit other institutions in the publication if the requirement in point 1 of the main rule is met.
Externally employed PhD candidates must list OsloMet as the author’s address in the publication if OsloMet has provided the basis for, or a necessary and significant contribution to, the published work. An active execution of supervisor responsibility on the relevant publication is considered an adequate contribution.
The same author must also list the main employer's address on publications, if the requirement in point 1 of the main rule is met.
Doctoral candidates who are employed at the institution which has admitted them to the PhD programme shall credit academic publications resulting from research work in the programme in its entirety to the degree-conferring institution if no other institution has made a substantial contribution in the form of supervision, funding, equipment, working environment, or in any other manner. In such cases the author must state his/her affiliation to both institutions in the publication. The institution conferring the doctoral degree has the general academic responsibility for PhD candidates who are employed at another institution in that the (principal) supervisor will normally monitor the student’s research work up to publication. In such cases the author must report the affiliation to both institutions in the publication. The degree-conferring institution is given as the author address in a publication in addition to the employer when a degree conferring institution has made a substantial contribution in the form of supervision, funding, equipment, working environment, or in any other manner. The active execution of the supervisory responsibility vis-à-vis the publication in question is a sufficient contribution. If the contribution is in the form of supervision, less is required than when the supervisor him/herself is to be designated as a co-author of the work in question.
The main rule is that the author states the address of the employer if the work has been conducted as part of the employment relationship. Those with several employment relationships use the employer(s) address(es) if the work was carried out as part of the employment relationship. This requirement is deemed to be satisfied if the author has several employment relationships in research environments with integrated research activity (where the individual employer has joint research activities). The same author must also state the addresses of other institutions if these have made an essential and substantial contribution to or provided a basis for an author’s participation in the published work in each individual case. A substantial contribution means academic supervision in the actual research work, funding of the research, provision of premises in which the research has been conducted and use of equipment and other infrastructure necessary for research work.
In accordance with good practice for crediting of collaboration partners we ask each individual unit to encourage externally paid researchers to include "OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University" as an author's address if the requirement in point 1 of the main rule has been met.
The publication data dispute bodies have the task of solving disputes in association with scientific publications and registration; both between institutions and locally.
The local Publishing Committee intervenes whenever there is disagreement about how a publication is to be registered and reported in Cristin for publications where all the authors are from OsloMet.
Super users in Cristin can report cases to the local Publishing Committee in case of doubts and disputes about publication category.
A formal case presentation consists of:
Please make sure that other involved departments receive a copy of the inquiry sent to the Publishing Committee.
Make sure that the case presentation is well rooted in the academic management at your department.
The cases must be reported to Tanja Strøm, secretary of the Publishing Committee.
The R&D Committee appoints the four R&D vice-deans as an advisory body to assess submitted doubts and disputes about publication categories and the body provides academically reasoned advice to the rector in each case. The group can be supplemented with external members as needed. The Cristin responsible in the administration is the secretary of the group.
The committee uses formal criteria in its assessment of selected categories. The starting point will be "Vekt på forskning (PDF)", a report prepared by UHR, delivered to the Ministry of Education and Research in 2004, as well as relevant reporting instructions provided by the National Publishing Committee.
Cristin has been assigned the task of establishing and organising a dispute body for the three sectors.
The Dispute Body for publication data has the task of solving disputes between institutions regarding registration and association with scientific publications.
The Norwegian Publication Indicator (NPI) aims to promote good research and provide an overview of, and insight into, research activities.
The purpose of the indicator is to measure research activity at the institutional level in connection with the fact that research institutions receive partial performance-based grants directly above the state budget.
The publishing indicator is unsuitable for measuring, or evaluating, research quality at the individual level.
A level 1 article in a journal (weight = 1), 10 authors from institution X, one author from institution Y:
1 * √ 10/11 + 1 * √ 1/11 = 0.95 points (X) + 0.30 points (Y) = 1.25 points
In addition, the institutions' points will be multiplied by a factor of 1.3 for international co-authorship.
This method increases the credit for each of the partners, but the institutions still have to divide the credits between them.
The National Publishing Committee has described the new publishing indicator and its purpose here.