Elena Pallari receives
$25,000 for proposal for innovation
in clinical research assessment
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in
providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace
of innovation, today named Elena
Pallari, Department of Clinical Trials and Methodology,
University College London, U.K.,
as the recipient of the 2021 Eugene
Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis. The
award was announced at the 25th International Conference on
Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2021) by Dr.
Gali Halevi, Director of the
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ at Clarivate.
Launched in 2017, the award recognizes early-career scientists
developing innovative approaches to citation analysis that improve
how the impact of scientific research is measured. This field of
study, also known as scientometrics, was pioneered by Dr.
Eugene Garfield, founder of the
Institute for Scientific Information.
UCL postgraduate researcher Elena
Pallari has been recognized for her research proposal to
evaluate research outputs of the UK Medical Research Council
Clinical Trials Unit over the last 20 years – during which time it
published 2,548 papers, as indexed in the Web of Science™ – and to
develop a framework to assess the impact of its methodology papers.
Her work will also evaluate how progress in the design, conduct and
analysis of clinical trials has improved clinical practice for
patients. This type of work in health sciences is especially
relevant amidst a global pandemic when clinical trials are
conducted at enormous speed.
Elena Pallari, University College
London, said: "The goal of my research is to find a way to
collectively assess and examine the research citation patterns of
highly cited methodological papers in clinical research. Those in
my field know that new methodological developments can have little
or no impact on new clinical studies or further methods or
research, and the rate of change can be particularly slow. This
makes capturing methodological research impact incredibly important
in order to be able to measure and improve influence on funding,
policy, practice and health outcomes.
"I am hopeful that my research will make a difference in
clinical research assessment across all of these spaces by
uncovering new data around methodological impact and ultimately
improving the way clinical studies are designed, conducted and
analysed."
Pallari will receive $25,000 of unrestricted prize
money and access to the Web of Science, the world's
largest publisher-neutral citation index. She will also be invited
to collaborate with the current citation analysts and data
scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information, established
in 1960 by Dr. Eugene Garfield.
Dr. Gali Halevi, Director at the
Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate said: "We are very
pleased to present Ms. Pallari with the 2021 Eugene Garfield Award
for Innovation in Citation Analysis. Her proposal is innovative,
original and shows great potential for real-world impact in its
future use by clinicians, statisticians, regulators and
policymakers. We truly need an accurate and efficient way to learn
from past trials and quickly adopt and adjust them in order to
speed up medical advances, which is what Ms. Pallari's work aims to
do.
"This is exactly the kind of innovation we look to recognise
with this award, and very much in keeping with the work the ISI has
pioneered. We are thrilled to recognize Ms. Pallari amongst the
most promising academics in the research community and we look
forward to seeing how her work will uphold the ISI tradition of
innovation in citation analysis."
The ISI focuses on the development of existing and new
scientometric approaches. Scientometrics shapes the future of
scientific discovery by helping governments, funding bodies and
universities assess the impact of their work and investments,
enabling them to allocate funding accordingly. It can also
provide researchers with insights regarding the impact of their
research, and the wider field.
Notes to editors
You can find more information about the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation
Analysis here.
Image of Elena Pallari available
on request.
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