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Key indicators:
2010
2011
2012
2013
2013
University target 2014*
Number of high level research publications (ETIS classification 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 and
3.1.) per academic employee per year (full time employees)
1.08
1.17
1.19
1.23
1.25
1.2
Number of doctoral theses defended per year
14
20
12
23
16
25
Total number of high level research publications (ETIS classification 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 and 3.1.) inter academic units per year
–
38
32
42
42
Growing trend
1. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
University priority: Developing interdis- ciplinary and international research and creativity centres, research teams and doctoral studies, as well as increasing the proportion of research, development and creative industries in the overall univer- sity activity.
1.1 RDC PUBLISHING
According to the Estonian Research Information System (ETIS), TU members published a total of 1,391 publications in 2014. Approxi- mately 40% of the publications in 2014 are high-level research pub- lications. An average of 1.25 high-level research publications per ac- ademic employee was published in 2014, which is higher than the target value of 1.2 set out in the university Development Plan and the Research and Development Strategy for 2014.
Among Estonian public universities, the publishing activity of TU academic employees can be considered good, because the av- erage number of high-level research publications per academic em- ployee has consistently grown and is higher than the corresponding indicator for the University of Tartu (hereinafter UT), Tallinn Uni- versity of Technology (hereinafter TUT) and the Estonian University of Life Sciences (hereinafter EULS) (See Figure 2).
When compared to the results for 2013, the number of high-level interdisciplinary research publications inter academic units has re- mained the same (42 publications in both 2013 and 2014).
In the field of humanities, in 2014 the first issue of the journal
* The university target of 2014 was set during the compilation of the Development Plan in 2009
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