Designing the dashboard for reporting research performance atMashhad University of Medical Sciences

Background and aims: Education and research are two important duties and responsibilities ofuniversities and scientific and cultural centers, and they have a special place in the current era,to the extent that they are considered as an indicator for determining the level of developmentof countries. Such research is the main key to the comprehensive development, self-sufficiency,and independence of a country. Most of the research activities and scientific productions areconducted by the academic staff members of the universities. Academic faculty members arevaluable assets to any society and are specialists who are responsible for teaching and spreadingscience and knowledge in the university, and the quality and development of knowledge dependto a considerable extent on how these members perform. Studies show that dashboards are mostlyused in commercial applications under the title of management dashboards and have remarkablecapabilities in the field of improving the decision-making process. The aim of the present studywas to design, evaluate and implement the research performance dashboard at Mashhad Universityof Medical Sciences.Method: At first, by examining valid evidence and documentation, items, information fields,related knowledge, and all the items that should be presented in the form of a dashboard user interfacewere extracted. Using the Delphi method, fourteen senior members in the field of research(research assistants and research experts in affiliated faculties) and a poll of the senior managersof the headquarters selected the desired items to be displayed on the dashboard. The visual designof the dashboard was done based on existing standards using Microsoft Power BI software. Datacollection was done by using Pazhuhan software, administrative and employment informationof academic staff members, and scientific measurement system of academic staff members, andlinking this information with each other was done by coding in Microsoft Power BI software.To evaluate the research performance, we used several indicators that include the percentage ofresearch gap, the percentage of research saturation, the organizational h۲ index, the percentage ofknowledge production in the group, research power, etc.Results: A total of ۶۱۳ faculty members have worked in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.Based on the standardized score of research saturation and research output, different groupswere placed in four regions. In the green area, both of the mentioned indicators are higher thanthe average of the university. In the blue region, the research output is higher than the universityaverage, but the research saturation is lower than the university average. In the orange region, theresearch output is lower than the average of the faculty, but research saturation is more than theuniversity average. In the red area, both indicators are lower than the university average. Most ofthe basic science groups were located in the green area. On the other hand, most clinical groupswere located in orange or red areas.Conclusion: Each educational group was given specific and tailored suggestions to improve theirperformance based on their performance in the zone they were in and the pyramid of their facultymembers.

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Research performance ، Dashboard ، Faculty members