First unveiled during the opening of the Annual Conference for Communicating Research Results, the Focus Platform aims to establish an internal database at the University of Bucharest to centralize and report research outputs for all authors affiliated with the university.
Among the key features of the platform are:
- Integration with WOS and Scopus: Researchers can link their unique identifiers for these platforms to their Focus accounts. Once set up, the platform automatically associates or imports results from these databases.
- Customized Reporting by Research Field: Researchers can document specific outcomes such as books, awards, patents, research grants, and more.
- Generation of Standards Verification Reports: The platform can generate compliance checklists for national and mandatory standards required for academic titles such as associate professor/research scientist II and professor/research scientist I, customized by research field.
- Centralized Reporting: In addition to individual reports, the platform enables the generation of accumulated reports for faculties, departments, or institutes within the university.
Once the account is configured, data verification is a one-time process, with subsequent periodic validations for automatic updates from WOS, Scopus, and UEFISCDI databases.
Although recognized platforms like Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar collect research results, they often fail to completely or accurately associate researchers with their works and citations. The Focus Platform addresses this issue by enabling automated identification of research results, such as tracking an article’s citations over a specific period.
The Focus Platform provides an intuitive virtual space designed to simplify the creation of research files and reports, making these tasks less time-consuming and labour-intensive.
A brief video tutorial demonstrating the platform’s usage is available below.
The project team includes Adrian Sită (Project Manager), Ionuț Lungu (Tech Lead), and Laurențiu Vasile (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Business Analyst). The development of the Focus Platform was funded through the FDI 0690/2023 and FDI 0494/2024 projects.
The Annual Conference for Communicating Research Results at UB: Diversity and Interdisciplinarity
A genuine marathon of research presentations, the conference featured over 100 talks, exhibitions, interactive workshops, and technology demonstrations. The conference stood out through the diverse domains and themes.
More details about the conference themes and panels, inspired by the themes of the five hubs of the CIVIS Alliance, as defined within the UN Sustainable Development Goals: climate, environment and energy; society, culture, heritage; health; cities, spaces and mobilities; digital and technological transformations, can be accessed here, here, and here.
The full even program is available here.
The annual conference for the communication of research results at the University of Bucharest aims to represent a platform for expression and exchange of ideas for members of our academic community from all scientific fields, professors and researchers, coordinators of research centres or groups and project directors who carry out research activities with concrete and relevant results for the community.
Through this event, dedicated to the main results obtained during the 2023-2024 academic year, the University of Bucharest aims to strengthen the connections within its academic community, as well as create the premises for the development of interdisciplinary collaborations, which will lead to the awareness of the entire society on the value of the efforts in the research space.
The first editions of the conference for communicating research results at the University of Bucharest took place in 2023 and were a real success both through the diversity of the themes and approaches proposed, and through the setting of an open, collegial and modern discussion framework, focused on innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
More information about the first two editions of the annual conference for communicating research results at UB is available here and here.
This year’s edition of the Conference for Communicating Research Results at the University of Bucharest was held with the support of the INOVEX project: Supporting the development of new skills and innovative tools for excellence in interdisciplinary research at the University of Bucharest (CNFIS-FDI-2024-F-0484).