This report, D5.1, is the first in a series of evaluation reports on the
M-Zones research programme. The main focus of this report is the articulation
of the publication strategy, and the use of publications as the key quality
metric for the programme. The secondary purpose of this report is to outline
the intended focus of subsequent reports in this series D5.2 scenario-based
demonstration evaluation strategy, D5.3 final evaluation report utilising
demonstrator methodology and publication metrics.
The M-Zones programme has produced a large volume of publications
targeting a range of quality metrics: internally reviewed white papers,
national conferences, international conferences and journals. These
publications reflect not only individual excellent in each of the partner
institutes, but also strategic collaborative research outputs.
One key metric for the programme going forward is to increase the number
of journal papers, and to track the citation rates on public citation indexes.
The next report in the series will address the issue of the quality of
the outputs of the programme in terms of its scenario-based integrated
demonstrations.
