Utilizing Ricgraph to gain insights into research collaborations across institutions, at every organizational level [presentation]

This entry is a presentation for the preprint Rik D.T. Janssen (2025). Utilizing Ricgraph to gain insights into research collaborations across institutions, at every organizational level. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5524439. It was held at the winter meeting of the Research Intelligence Network Netherlands (RINN), on December 1, 2025, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Abstract of the preprint In a research organization, researchers rarely work alone. They work with colleagues from their own and other organizations, often across multidisciplinary boundaries. That means that there are a lot of collaborations between persons and organizations, on various levels, within and between research organizations. This article describes methods and software that can be used to drill down on these collaborations and find their research results, their sub-organizations, or the persons that contributed to them. Researchers can use information about their partnerships to see with which groups they do and do not work together. This can help them strengthen existing collaborations or initiate promising new ones. They can assess the state-of-the-art in a research discipline. For management, partnerships may reveal insights in the diversity and multidisciplinarity of research within their organization. Diversity and multidisciplinary are key indicators of innovation, creativity, performance, talent attraction, reputation, and societal impact. In this article, we use Ricgraph (Research in context graph), software that enables the exploration of all kinds of research information, as well as the relations between these items. It combines data from various systems and multiple organizations, and stores it in a single graph. This design allows to infer new relations, relations that are not present in any of the separate source systems. As a result, a wider variety of analytical approaches can be supported than would be possible with data from one source system. To read more: Rik D.T. Janssen (2025). Utilizing Ricgraph to gain insights into research collaborations across institutions, at every organizational level. [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5524439.