Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

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Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020
Definitions
Global budget:
The Austrian “global budget” or the basic funding of the research institutions refers to all 
grants from the owners/ shareholders/supervisors that have not already been earmarked (frequently 
based on a performance agreement). The institutions allocate the basic funding themselves. 
Third-party funding:
The third-party funding of the research institutions includes both customer revenues 
(private and public) and funding raised. Funds of the National Foundation for Research, Technology and 
Development and the Austria Fund are also included in third-party funding, but other income from the 
onward charging of costs by charging for services, or funding from the Public Employment Service Austria 
(AMS) and research premiums is not.
Publications:
The publications only include scientific publications (not project reports, etc.) that have 
undergone a quality assurance procedure (peer review). All publications have a “persistent identifier” such 
as a DOI or ISSN and have been published in scientific journals, collected works, proceedings or mono-
graphs. Publications with multiple authors are evaluated as “whole counts” (i.e. the publication as a whole 
is attributed to each author). 
WoS and Scopus
: The Web of Science (formerly ISI, Web of Knowledge) is a multidisciplinary database 
run by Clarivate Analytics which lists scientific publications with their citations. Scopus is a similar data-
base from Elsevier with bibliographic references to scientific literature. Scopus contains more entries and 
also covers non-natural science disciplines on a broader basis. Nevertheless, research organisations were 
given the option of presenting their publications in accordance with Scopus or WoS.
Funding budget:
The research funding agencies use various terms to describe their funding or financing 
activities. For the purposes of the Research and Technology Report, approvals or commitments are report-
ed as present values. The Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) presents items in a different manner, a footnote 
explains the correlation.