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Reporting and Permissions

You can run reports on all data stored within Elements. This includes publications, professional and teaching activities, grants and impact. In addition, reports can be created to view engagement with Elements, profile completeness, profiles linked to ORCID or other research identifiers. It can also report on publications linked to grants, fields of research labels, profiles linked to SDG goals, and more.

The Research and Open Scholarship Team develop custom reports that can help schools and staff report in new ways. Please get in touch with suggestions or recommendations for reporting.

To run reports, a user must be assigned either the Statistician or Reporting Hub Super-Viewer role. 

Statistician:

Can run reports on groups, and members of the groups, that they have statistician access to; they have usage rights over that group’s data and can run Basic Reports and Formatted Reports.

Reporting Hub Super-Viewer:

Can view all reports in the Reporting Hub but does not have the ability to manage them. This role has usage rights of all groups data and can run formatted reports on any group.

If you would like to able to run Elements reports, please contact the Elements team by emailing elements@sussex.ac.uk.

Basic Reporting

The Basic Reporting function in Elements is a great way to quickly pull a range of data from the system. To access Basic Reporting, log in to Elements and click Menu > Reporting > Basic Reports. Here, you can pull information on your school, department, or individuals. Reports include:

- Publications

- Grants

- Professional activities

- Teaching activities

- Records of impact

Please note that using the date filter in Section 2 of the Basic Report will include all records without a reporting date. The reporting date automatically updates on every record based on a date hierarchy, for example, if there is only an accepted date on the record, the reporting date will be the accepted date, but as soon as a published date is added, the reporting date will automatically update to this date. Very old records may not have any dates, and therefore no reporting date, and so will be included on all reports, even if they are date-filtered. You can remove these no-date records easily in Excel by using the filtering function in the Reporting Date column. We are working to add dates to all these records, so this function will be improved soon.