Kia ora

Thank you for your request made under the Official Information Act 1982.

I advise that a response will be provided to you within 20 working days following the receipt of your request.

Kind regards

Georgia Tawharu
Adviser, Information Access and Copyright
D: 04 463 5249
Level 7, Rankine Brown
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui
Gate 2 Kelburn Parade PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

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Kia ora T White

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).

Please find attached to this response all of the relevant documentation pertaining to the proposal to simplify the name of Victoria University of Wellington. You will see that some of the information is, where necessary, redacted under the following sections of the Act:
• 9(2)(b)(ii) - where withholding the information is necessary to protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information;
• 9(2)(i) - where withholding is necessary to enable the University to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities;
• 9(2)(k) - where withholding is necessary to prevent the disclosure or use of official information for improper gain or improper advantage; and
• 9(2)(a) – where withholding is necessary to protect the privacy of natural persons.

In particular, redactions were made where the information provided comparisons to other New Zealand universities or was not relevant to the name simplification proposal. Release of this information would prejudice the University’s commercial position in relation to its competitors, and would give those competitors an improper advantage by providing them with insights into Victoria University of Wellington’s potential future activities offshore, and into how international students may be influenced to consider other universities in New Zealand.

In addition, further information relevant to your request can be found publicly available on the University’s website here https://www.victoria.ac.nz/about/victori....

Ngâ mihi nui

Georgia Tawharu
Adviser, Information Access and Copyright
Level 7, Rankine Brown
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Whare Wânanga o te Ûpoko o te Ika a Mâui
Gate 2 Kelburn Parade PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

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Good afternoon

Thank you for your email below and apologies that you've not received a response to your voice message. Please note that Georgia is on leave until 10 September.

In reference to your original questions dated 1 August please see below:

(a) the number of research papers published by VUW annually

The two tables below provide this information, taken from the University’s central database of research publication records which contains records of each academic staff member’s research outputs.

The first table shows all publication records regardless of type (e.g. books, journal articles, chapters, reports, conference papers etc). The second shows journal articles only.

Table 1: All publications

Year Total # publications
2017 4994
2016 4541
2015 4167
2014 4710
2013 4796
2012 4189
2011 4470
2010 4243
2009 3813
2008 3855
2007 3932

Table 2: Journal articles only

Year Total # journal articles
2017 2549
2016 2353
2015 2258
2014 2198
2013 2275
2012 2118
2011 2258
2010 1893
2009 1627
2008 1505
2007 1591

(b) the number of times research papers have been correctly referenced to Victoria University of Wellington annually

The table below shows the number of times research papers have been affiliated to Victoria University of Wellington in the Scopus database. This data is only representative of papers that are indexed in Scopus which does not all research papers referenced to Victoria University of Wellington.

Year # records for VUW
2017 1488
2016 1408
2015 1291
2014 1311
2013 1410
2012 1268
2011 1205
2010 1039
2009 895
2008 763
2007 716

(c) the number of times research papers have been incorrectly referenced to VUW annually

We cannot easily or accurately provide this information. We have discussed this with our Scopus representative, who has confirmed that they are unable to provide this data for us either. We have not answered your question (d) because we cannot do so without an answer to (c).

With regard to your final two questions, section 2.2 of the Decision Paper contains all the relevant information relating to the use of the University's name in research outputs and is the only available evidence we can provide in answer to this question. This is the content that the VC and Council relied on in forming their views on this issue.

Yours sincerely
Nikki

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