Meeting our objectives

NeSI focuses on the following objectives, tracking performance against related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Attribution: 

Attribution: 

Measuring impact

NeSI is also working with MBIE to develop a future KPI that will measure the impact of research outcomes from projects using NeSI services and infrastructure.

This measure will quantify:

• NeSI’s ability to improve the quality of the research
• NeSI’s targeted focus on the right areas by choosing high impact research projects

Over the last six years, NeSI has a field-weighted citation impact of 1.72, with 19.1 citations per publication*.

This compares favourably with the New Zealand research sector as a whole for the same period, which has an average field-weighted citation impact of 1.53 and 8.8 citations per publication.

While NeSI’s is a small sample size, citation analysis does indicate the broad impact of NeSI-supported research across a range of domains.