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Meaningful impact measurement starts with trusted, accurate data. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how scholarly data is sourced, aggregated, and disambiguated to improve validity, transparency, and interoperability. Research impact doesn’t happen in silos, but data often does. Connecting information across systems and departments is key to creating a complete, validated view of scholarly activity.

We’ll explore the critical role of data accuracy and faculty validation in ensuring research outputs are represented clearly and reliably. You’ll hear from product experts and peers as they unpack data sourcing and integration practices that support stronger analysis, confident reporting, effective benchmarking, and informed strategic decision-making, with plenty of time for questions and discussion.
When
Thursday, April 9, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenters
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Baron Wolf, PhD
Director of Data Analytics, Institutional Research Analytics & Decision Support, University of Kentucky and Principal Investigator and Steering Committee Chair, Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH)
Dr. Wolf has experience working in institutional research, effectiveness, assessment, and strategic planning within higher education. His work has focused on the use of data analytics to make strategic business decisions and process improvement. He is a member of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Working Group. An international group of practitioners working towards fair research assessment practices. He is also an active researcher and has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and has worked on projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wolf is the Director of Research Analytics at the University of Kentucky and leads efforts to maintain robust research business intelligence tools, data analytics, reporting, analysis, bibliometric analysis, and assessment tools. He is the director of the Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH) which is a research coordination grant funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Charity Elifritz
Senior Customer Consultant, Research Intelligence
Charity Elifritz is a Research Intelligence expert at Elsevier who works with universities and research institutions to strengthen research strategy through trusted bibliometric data and analytics. She partners with libraries and research offices to leverage tools such as Scopus and SciVal to improve data quality, evaluate research performance, and support evidence-based decision making.
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Andrey Loktev
Director of Product Management, Elsevier
Andrey Loktev is Director of Product Management at Elsevier, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with over 10 years at the company. He leads product initiatives within the Research Data Platform, with a focus on researcher profile matching and disambiguation — core capabilities that underpin trusted researcher insights in products such as Scopus and SciVal. Over his time at Elsevier, Andrey has worked across multiple data and analytics products, helping shape scalable data infrastructure and improving the accuracy and coverage of global research intelligence.
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