The UMETRICS 2016Q3a Dataset is comprised of two collections. The first collection includes core files in which researchers will find university financial and personnel administrative data pertaining to sponsored project expenditures at IRIS member universities during a given year. UMETRICS core files are based on administrative data drawn directly from sponsored projects, procurement, and human resources data systems on each IRIS member university’s campus. Individual campus files are de-identified, cleaned and aggregated by IRIS to...

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This is a publicly available data dictionary of the full IRIS UMETRICS 2020 Data Release.

In addition to core and auxiliary files, the 2018 IRIS data release includes updates for the 2017 data release match tables that: (i) link individual research employees to dissertation data (with a focus on dissertation topics) provided by ProQuest, and (ii) link federal awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to detailed information about the content of grants.

The UMETRICS-Patent Crosswalk file contains match results of the crosswalk between UMETRICS employee names, employee transaction records, and USPTO patent data at the individual level with a focus on current IRIS member universities. The Patent Subset File is a linkage source file associated with current IRIS universities. In addition, IRIS has included with this supplement 14 files downloaded from USPTO PatentsView, curated for IRIS use with personally identifiable information fields dropped.

These reports summarize data aggregated from IRIS member universities on their employment and spending on research-related goods and services from sponsored research projects. The data are from 2013 through 2018. Keywords: research, spending, employment.

This is the full data documentation prepared for the IRIS UMETRICS 2019 Data Release. This documentation is only accessible within the IRIS Virtual Data Enclave. It provides detailed descriptions about the third annual IRIS UMETRICS dataset released in April 2019.

The IRIS UMETRICS 2022 Data Release core files include university financial and personnel administrative data pertaining to sponsored project expenditures at IRIS universities during a given year. UMETRICS core files are based on administrative data drawn directly from sponsored projects, procurement, and human resources data systems on each IRIS university’s campus. 2022 core files include data from 36 universities, with coverage between 2001 and 2021; coverage varies by institution.

This documentation provides researchers with details about the recently completed object code classification project and its product which supplements the IRIS UMETRICS 2022 release dataset. IRIS receives administrative data on research spending and the purposes of spending associated with funded research projects. As part of data submission to IRIS, universities share object codes (these are often interchangeably used with “spend categories” or “expense categories”) and corresponding descriptions. IRIS has cleaned, processed, and standardized these object...

The IRIS UMETRICS 2020 Data Release auxiliary files provide researchers with contextual information on institutions and demographic information about UMETRICS employees who are paid on sponsored projects. Files can also help to retrieve more details about the purpose of each employee / vendor / subaward transaction and sub-organization units (including standardized sub-organization unit names) where grants are administered and research is conducted.

In addition to core and linkage files, the auxiliary collection provides researchers with look-up and contextual information on institutions, awards, vendors and subaward recipients. Files can also help to retrieve institutional characteristics as well as to map campus- and sub-organization unit-level codes to more detailed descriptions.

This is the full data documentation prepared for the second annual IRIS data release in March 2018. This documentation is only accessible within the IRIS Virtual Data Enclave. This documentation provides detailed descriptions about IRIS dataset released in March 2018.

This is publicly available documentation on the UMETRICS-Patent Crosswalk and Patent data files which were released as a supplement to the 2018 IRIS data release (UMETRICS 2017Q4a).

The IRIS UMETRICS 2019 Data Release auxiliary files provide researchers with look-up and contextual information on institutions, awards, vendors and subaward recipients. Files map campus- and sub-organization unit-level codes to more detailed descriptions, provide demographic information about employees who are paid by awards, and information on sources of federal awards.

This is a publicly available summary of the full data documentation, providing project and data descriptions for the IRIS UMETRICS 2019 Data Release.

The IRIS UMETRICS 2020 Data Release linkage files include crosswalks between IRIS data and external datasets (e.g., federal award and publication data) at the award level. The improved award match rate (in both NSF and NIH award linkage) reflects our continuous effort to minimize false positives and false negatives. As indicated above, we expanded award linkage from award to individual level this year by linking UMETRICS employee name and NSF / NIH Primary Investigator (PI)...

The UMETRICS 2016Q3a Dataset is comprised of two collections. The first collection includes core files in which researchers will find university financial and personnel administrative data pertaining to sponsored project expenditures at IRIS member universities during a given year. UMETRICS core files are based on administrative data drawn directly from sponsored projects, procurement, and human resources data systems on each IRIS member university’s campus. Individual campus files are de-identified, cleaned and aggregated by IRIS to...

This is publicly available documentation on the UMETRICS-NSF publication match and related NSF publication source files that were released in September 2019 as a supplement to the 2019 IRIS data release.

This is the full data documentation prepared for the IRIS UMETRICS 2020 Data Release. This documentation is only accessible within the IRIS Virtual Data Enclave. It provides detailed descriptions about the fourth annual IRIS UMETRICS dataset released in June 2020.

The IRIS UMETRICS 2019 Data Release linkage files include updates for the 2018 data release match tables that link federal awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to detailed information about the content of grants. New for the 2019 release is an additional crosswalk to publications based on NIH-funded research.

This is a publicly available data dictionary of the IRIS UMETRICS 2022 Data Release.

This file includes match results of the crosswalk between UMETRICS employee names, employee transaction records, and ProQuest publication (thesis / dissertation) data with a focus on publication subjects. Due to personally identifiable information, the underlying data, i.e., UMETRICS employee names, are not released. Also, due to the terms of the research contract between IRIS and ProQuest, publication IDs originally from the ProQuest database are not made available.

This is the full data documentation prepared for the IRIS’ first data release in March 2017. This documentation is only accessible within the IRIS Virtual Data Enclave. This summary provides detailed descriptions about IRIS dataset released in March 2017.

This is a publicly available data dictionary of the full dataset.

Dataset Description: The IRIS UMETRICS 2020 Data Release core files include university financial and personnel administrative data pertaining to sponsored project expenditures at IRIS universities during a given year. UMETRICS core files are based on administrative data drawn directly from sponsored projects, procurement, and human resources data systems on each IRIS university’s campus. 2020 core files include data from 33 universities, with coverage between 2001 and 2019; coverage varies by institution. Access Notes: Access restricted;...