Position Available

[Henry Small]

POSITION AVAILABLE: 

Thomson Scientific – Research Scientist

To apply:  Please visit www.thomsoncareers.com and search by requisition 
number TEC00002745.

 

The Thomson Corporation is a global leader in providing essential 
electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. 
Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications 
to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, 
financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Thomson 
Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock 
exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

 

Thomson Scientific information based solutions keep academic, government, 
corporate, and pharma R&D professionals at the forefront of their markets 
by providing must-have authoritative content with innovative technologies 
that assist with discovery, analysis, product development and distribution. 

 

This position is responsible for the assessment, recommendation, and 
implementation of innovative and appropriate applications of bibliometrics 
and statistics to TS product and customer solutions related to research 
evaluation. The individual will oversee development of new research metrics 
and refinement of existing metrics by monitoring new metrics and evaluation 
trends globally and advocate the adoption of specific new metrics based on 
their utility in the TS context and in TS products. Other responsibilities 
include overseeing quality control of metrics in existing products and 
custom consulting projects. The position reports to Director, Research 
Services Group, Thomson Scientific.

 
•     Monitor trends in research metrics and evaluation for relevance to 
Thomson Scientific strategic goals.  

•     Create internal reports and analyses to support planning activities 
and external presentations in industry forums.   

•     Act as internal consultant on a variety of customer-facing activities 
including new product planning, quality control of existing metrics 
products, customer inquiries, and custom consulting assignments.  

•     Develop and justify metrics enhancement plans for existing products 
with sound business rationale to senior managers and executives.  

•     Propose and justify new evaluative products with sound new business 
cases to senior management and executives. 

•     Accurate strategic and competitive assessments of global trends in 
scholarly performance evaluation programs and their implications for TS 
metrics development. 

•     Development of new evaluative metrics and creation of sound business 
plans for their implementation. 

•     Successful internal TS implementation of systems and editorial 
development necessary to support new metrics in existing and new products. 

•     Determine critical trends of strategic importance to research 
evaluation and their implication to TS. 

•     Prioritize evaluative initiatives to maximize business growth. 

•     Decide best metrics for new evaluative products.

 

We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications:

 

•     Advanced degree in relevant field (library science, bibliometrics, 
informetrics, or statistics). 

•     Professional experience in research evaluation, scientometrics, 
bibliometrics, or informetrics. 

•     Knowledge of statistical or quantitative methods. 

•     Demonstrated relationships with relevant industry players and 
associations. 

•     Effective communications skills. 

•     Ability to translate market and customer needs into clearly defined 
product requirements.

 

The H-1B visa cap has been fulfilled for fiscal year 2008 which begins 
October 1, 2007 and therefore Thomson is unable to sponsor new (first-time) 
H-1B visas.

 

Our employees embrace a number of commonly shared values - collaboration, 
accountability, customer focus, a bias toward action and results, 
appreciation and respect for diversity, entrepreneurial spirit and, at all 
times, the highest ethical standards. These values represent the behavior 
each employee is expected to exhibit in their role. In our view, fostering 
a culture that embodies these values will lead to success and growth for 
our employees and our business.

 

The Thomson Corporation is proud to be an Equal Employment 
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.