WUT Research Data Repository
WUT Research Data Repository
About the Repository
Research Data Repository is a response to the growing needs of WUT employees and PhD students for open science. It enables the deposition of research data created during the execution of scientific projects funded by grantors such as NCN or the European Commission.
Research data can be deposited in the system in both open formats (under Creative Commons licences) and closed formats (e.g. due to embargoes, copyright or commercialisation of research results).
Research Data Repository enables WUT staff and PhD students to choose one of the following two options for depositing data:
- Research data deposited in BW: the author provides data files in addition to metadata. Datasets are assigned a persistent DOI identifier.
- Add research data – this option is used to make metadata of research data published in external research data repositories available in WUT Research Data Repository. Data in the Repository is subject to review by the data steward and data coordinators.
WUT Research Data Repository complies with the FAIR principles relating to the standard for storing and publishing research data:
- Findable:
- Each dataset is assigned a unique identifier (DOI) to facilitate its search and unambiguous identification;
- Datasets deposited in the Repository are provided with detailed metadata, following the DataCite format. They describe the research data in a way that makes it easily findable;
- The metadata is uploaded to the DataCite system for better dissemination and retrieval;
- The resources are indexed by popular scientific search engines (e.g. Google Dataset Search);
- Repository is registered with the global registry of research data repositories re3data.org.
- Accessible:
- Depositing data in the Repository ensures its long-term availability;
- Data are made available according to the principle ‘Open as much as possible, closed as much as necessary’. It is possible to deposit research data both in the Open Access model, under Creative Commons licenses, and in the closed model.
- Interoperable:
- Metadata can be read and processed by humans or machines. It is possible to download metadata in different formats;
- Repository uses controlled vocabularies for part of the metadata;
- Research data records can be linked to the publications and projects that produced the research data;
- Repository uses the recognised DataCite data description standard and open file formats, which enables easy exchange and processing of data by external systems.
- Reusable:
- The metadata contains detailed information about the provenance, context and quality of the data, allowing its reuse;
- Repository provides a licence tagging facility, so it is clear under which conditions datasets can be reused;
- Each record containing datasets is accompanied by a Readme file, available under a CC-BY licence.
Learning Support Tools
Learning Support Tools
iThenticate
The iThenticate programme allows the verification of the originality of a (mainly English-language) document before publication, by comparison with open Internet resources and with databases indexed by iThenticate. We do not recommend checking texts in Polish due to the insufficient reference base.
The programme is aimed at WUT researchers and PhD students - the number of accounts is limited. In 2025 there are available:
- 50 accounts
- 200 checks for the WHOLE University
In scope of your account, you should check your own research work (author or co-author).
There is a pool of checking reports available to you (the number visible in your account, on the right-hand side of the screen, is an indication of how many checks currently remain for the whole university, not for an individual account – the tab: Submit a document / XX Documents remaining
).
Each time the same document is uploaded again it is counted as a new check, so please use the programme with caution.
The results of the analysis are presented in the form of a report, which includes:
- similarity indices (for the whole document and for individual sources), which specify in percentage terms the number of borrowings found in the analysed document;
- highlighted fragments of the work that are identical to the texts found in the comparative databases, together with their source.
If the account is found to be inactive for more than 3 months, it will be deactivated and the user will be informed by email. Significant overage may result in a response from the Programme Administrator.
Please submit your application via the registration form (in Polish; email address in the @pw.edu.pl domain required).
For more information:
Data Management Plans
Data Management Plans
Introduction
Research data are all data that have been collected, generated, observed during the research process aimed at obtaining scientific results.
Research data are:
- raw data (which were obtained directly as a result of a research tool),
- processed data (compiled).
Examples of research data:
- experimental notes, logbooks
- laboratory protocols, procedure descriptions
- methodological descriptions
- samples
- artefacts, objects
- textual documents
- questionnaires, surveys
- audio or video recordings
- photographs, images
- database content (images, texts, audio and video recordings)
- software (scripts, input files)
- results of computer simulations
- mathematical models and algorithms
Open research data – is data produced in the course of research and used in scientific work, to which any user has free and unrestricted access. These data can be used, modified and shared legally.
Some data may be archived in a closed model, due to:
- commercialisation of research results, e.g. applying for patent protection for an invention
- national security
- protection of personal data
- copyright restrictions
Dataset – a structured set of data, made available in a given repository, that relates to a given topic and is provided with metadata describing its content.
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Scientific indicators
Journals indicators
Selected indicators for scientific journals evaluation:
- Essential indicators:
- Impact Factor
“The annual JCR impact factor is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years”. For more information about IF see Thomson Reuters website. - Hirsch index
The index h is defined as the number of papers with citation number >= h, as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output.” It can be also used for journals’ evaluation. The h-index was developed by J.E. Hirsch and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 (46): 16569-16572 November 15 2005. - Index Copernicus
This evaluation system includes selected journals from STM (Science, Technology, Medicine). It shows the rank of journals based on about 30 parameters in five categories: scientific quality, editorial quality, international availability, market frequency, regularity and stability, technical quality. The IC Journal Master List – contains currently over 8,000 journals from all over the world, including 700 journals from Poland. The journals registered in this database underwent rigorous, multidimensional parameterization, proving high quality. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education acknowledged the IC Journal Master List by placing it on the list of scored databases. The journals indexed in IC JML get additional points during the Ministry’s evaluation process.
- Impact Factor
- Additional indicators:
- SNIP
Source Normalized Impact per Paper - “SNIP measures a source’s contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a given subject field. It helps you make a direct comparison of sources in different subject fields.” - SJR
SCImago Journal Rank- ”SJR is weighted by the prestige of the subject field, quality, and reputation of the journal – they all have a direct impact on the value of a citation.”
- SNIP
Sources of the indicators described above:
- Journal Citation Reports - Online Access to JCR (since 1997) on Web of Science
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Social Sciences Edition
When looking for JCR database, choose "Additional Resources" after entering the platform ISI Web of Knowledge. - Master Journal List - Master Journal List is in Poland commonly called „lista filadelfijska”. The Master Journal List includes all journal titles covered in scientific products of Thomson Reuters, available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, among others in Web of Science (WoS) database. The Master Journal List is than broader than the list of journals available both in WoS and in JCR database.
There is no information on Impact Factor values in the Master Journal List - List of the Ministry’s scored journals - The Ministry of Science and Higher Education publish a list of scored journals once a year.
- INDEX COPERNICUS JOURNALS MASTER LIST (JML) - Current values of Index Copernicus (IC) factors for individual titles, estimated rates for the next year, journal’s publishing address, URL journal’s address, language of publication, availability in international databases). Data are available only for authorized users.
- Scopus - It is an abstract and citation database where the number of citations, the value of h-index (Hirsch index) can be found (publications since 1996). It is also possible to compare scientific journals using the Journal Analyzer feature.