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Introduction to SciVal Introduction to SciVal (6 min):

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13819/196781

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Technology and Analytics

= Enhanced Research

Content

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Reference: International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base 2013

The world of research is becoming more competitive – leading to challenges for research management

• R&D budgets

• More researchers

+output growth

• Emerging research

nations (India,

China, Brazil)

• Economic

development

• Faster pay-offs

• Accountability &

transparency

Identify strengths and shortcomings to inform research

decisions Accelerate collaboration Secure more funding

Retain and hire best-in-class researchers

Trends Expectations

Needs

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Reference Manager

Networking Tool

Library

Document Manager

Research Information

Management System to streamline research

administration

Customized analysis,

reports and services to meet your research

management needs.

Analytical tool to explore research

performance globally

Rich data assets

External view Internal view Custom analysis

Researcher productivity

Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio

The largest abstract and

citation database of

peer-reviewed literature; research.

Aimed to improve your ability to Establish, Execute and Evaluate research strategy.

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What is SciVal?

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Research

Performance

Management

Tool

Traditional

Flexible set-up, view and interrogation

Detailed / granular

Updated weekly

Researchers & groups

Show everything

Publications – Articles, conference proceedings, review articles, etc.

Productivity and “impact” as reflected by metrics and indicators

Informs decision-making about policy, CPIs, funding distribution, incentives, recruitment

Combination of metrics, various output methods, visualisation of results

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The layers of SciVal

Using advanced data analytics super-computer technology, SciVal

allows you to instantly process an enormous amount of data to

generate powerful data visualizations on-demand, in seconds.

Query around 110 trillion metric values

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Modular and Integrated

SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 220

nations and 6,000 research institutions worldwide, and groups of

institutions

Visualize

research

performance

Benchmark

your progress

Develop

collaborative

partnerships

Ready-made-at a

glance snapshots

of any selected

entity

Flexibility to create

and compare any

research groups

Identify and analyze

existing and potential

collaboration

opportunities

Analyze

research

trends

Analyze research

trends to discover the

top performers and

rising stars

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Different use cases

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SciVal supports the needs of a broad range of institutional users by providing

ready-made, at-a-glance snapshots for flexible, institution-specific insight

Find more use cases on our website: https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/case-studies

Executive

Management

Research

Administrators

Department

Heads

Researchers

• Create management-level reports

• Accelerate collaboration

• Data to support and win large grants

• 360 degree Overview

• Identify institution’s strengths and short-comings

• Evaluate researchers

• Model-test scenarios

• Highlight achievements

• Expand networks

• Locate collaborators and mentors

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What are the questions addressed using SciVal?

“I want to benchmark my institute,

and my departments want to

benchmark themselves. How can

we all do this according to our

different realities?”

“How can we demonstrate

excellence in a way that best shows

our unique strengths to secure

funding and attract students?”

“My VC is going to China; who do

our academics collaborate with

there and how can we expand?”

“I want to explore the various

scenarios I’m considering to set up

a centre of excellence. How can

the data provide me with insights?”

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Components of SciVal

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Basket of Metrics

Snowball Metric: www.snowballmetrics.com/metrics

Productivity metrics

Scholarly Output

Outputs in Top Percentiles

Publications in Top Journal

Percentiles

Citation Impact metrics

Citation Count

Citations per Publication

Cited Publications

Number of Citing Countries

h-indices (h, g, m)

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

Collaboration metrics

Collaboration (geographical)

Collaboration Impact (geographical)

Academic-Corp Collaboration

Academic-Corp Collaboration Impact

Disciplinary metrics

Journal count

Journal category count

Plus

Views &

Patent-citations

Filter by: document type, subject limited, normalized, self-citation,

absolute numbers vs percentages

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SciVal pre-defines 6,300 institutions and 250 nations, and allow users to

group those institutions and entities on-demand.

• Access to pre-defined 6300+ institutions, 250 countries and groups (i.e. EU28, US states, German Bundesländer, Russell group and more)

• Ability to create any desired grouping of entities, researcher groups or documents

Flexibility

Ready-to-use & Create your own

Predefined and customised entities

Institutions (+ groups)

Countries (+ groups)

Research Areas

• Search terms

• Entities

• Competencies

Researchers (+ groups)

Publication sets (+ groups)

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Login Access: www.scival.com

Same login credentials as

ScienceDirect/Scopus

can be used

Click here if you forgot

your password

Click here to create a new login

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Home page

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Finding Help

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