SciVal Spotlight Training for KUHuiling Ng, SciVal Product Sales Manager (South East Asia)Cassandra Teo, Account Manager (South East Asia)

June 2013

A comprehensive suite of web-based performance, planning and

funding tools that help institutions evaluate, establish and execute

research strategies

Elsevier responds by developing the SciVal suite of products

Challenges for the Research Executives & Managers

Tools to enable the REMs to evaluate research performance and

make well-informed decisions about strategic direction, staff

recruitment & retention & potential collaborators

Tools to enable the REMs to evaluate research performance and

make well-informed decisions about strategic direction, staff

recruitment & retention & potential collaborators

AGENDA

• SciVerse Scopus: The largest abstract and citation database of research information

• 19,000 active titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including coverage of:

Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts and Humanities

• Independent journal metrics SNIP: The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper

corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fields.

SJR: The SCImago Journal Rank reflects prestige of source - value of weighted citations per document.

USING A COMPREHENSIVE AND RELIABLE DATA SOURCE

Thailand Research Landscape

How to navigate?

1. Select map of interest

KU’s 2008- 2012

SciVal Spotlight highlights

KU’s research

strengths from a 5 –yr

publication period

Publication Subject Distribution

Viewing Competencies

MATH & PHYSICS

CHEMISTRY

ENGINEERING

EARTH SCIENCE

BIOLOGY

BIOTECHNOLOGY

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

MEDICAL

SPECIALITIES

HEALTH SCIENCES

BRAIN RESEARCH

SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMPUTER SCIENCE

•circles away from circumference• circles with multi-coloured bars

Multi-disciplinary strengths

HUMANITIES

View of KU’s 52 competencies and corresponding subject areasView of KU’s 52 competencies and corresponding subject areas

How is KU’s research map generated?

References

Pape

r 1

Ref.

Paper

A

Ref.

PaperB

Pape

r 2

Ref. Paper

A

Ref. PaperB

Pape

r 3

Ref. Paper

A

Ref. Paper

B

Co-Citation Analyses on

‘highly-cited’ references

Peer-reviewed materials

from past 5 years

Papers from KU

A

B

C

D

E

A

B

C

D

E

Strength No. 1

Strength No. 2

‘Highly-cited’

References

How to navigate?

The Competency Concept – Emerging vs Distinctive

An Emerging Competency is a network of article clusters that are grouped

together based on the unique publication profile of an institution

An Emerging Competency (EC) becomes a Distinctive Competency (DC) if:

There presents a Significant Large Field of ResearchThe number of papers published globally in that cluster meets the minimum

threshold

Publication LeaderKU is ranked top in the field by the number of published articles

Reference LeaderKU is ranked top in the field by the number of highly cited articles

Innovation LeaderKU is citing more recent work compared relative to the average for the

competency

OR OR

AND

There presents a form of Leadership

How to navigate?

Details of Competencies

How to navigate?

Download as CSV

View by Subject Area

More Filter Options

What’s in a Competency

Top disciplines making up the competency

Leadership of Competencies

Top disciplines making up the competency

Why is this a DC or EC?

Comparing Performance across Institutions

Compare by:

Articles Published

Citation Count

Fractionalised Articles

Comparisons with Top

Institutions in:

World

Asia Pacific

Thailand

Viewing Top Institutions

Ranking of Top Institutions within Competency

Viewing Top Institutions

How similar are their research?

Institution Comparison

Comparison with ANY institution within the competency

Understanding Your Researchers

Viewing Top Institutions

Identify Potential Collaborators

QUESTIONS?Half-time

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EVALUATE RESEARCHUSING SPOTLIGHT: IN-DEPTH ANALYSES

The Matrix View – Tracking Competency Growth

Reflection of KU’s

Publication Leadership

Growth rate of articles

KU’s strength output

Productivity = HIGH

Global Competition= HIGH

Productivity = HIGH

Global Competition= HIGH

Productivity = LOW

Global Competition = HIGH

Productivity = LOW

Global Competition = HIGH

Productivity = HIGH

Niche = HIGH

Productivity = HIGH

Niche = HIGHProductivity = LOW

Niche = HIGH

Productivity = LOW

Niche = HIGH

How Can You Use the Matrix Map?

Example Scenario:

Identify research competencies inline with world trends that KU can further invest in

•Filter by Relatively Large Field•Filter by Growing Field•View Matrix•Identify competencies in left- hand column

Example Scenario:

Identify research competencies inline with world trends that KU can further invest in

•Filter by Relatively Large Field•Filter by Growing Field•View Matrix•Identify competencies in left- hand column

How Can You Use the Matrix Map?

Example Scenario:

Identify research competencies inline with world trends that KU can further invest in

•Filter by Relatively Large Field•Filter by Growing Field•View Matrix•Identify competencies in left- hand column

Example Scenario:

Identify research competencies inline with world trends that KU can further invest in

•Filter by Relatively Large Field•Filter by Growing Field•View Matrix•Identify competencies in left- hand column

Collaboration Overview

Collaboration Overview

No. of institutions

Strengthening Research Through Collaboration

E.g. Top Chinese Researchers in KU’s Chemistry CompetenciesE.g. Top Chinese Researchers in KU’s Chemistry Competencies

Strengthening Research Through Collaboration

E.g. Top Chinese Researchers in KU’s Chemistry CompetenciesE.g. Top Chinese Researchers in KU’s Chemistry Competencies

Not yet collaborating institutions in competencies within Chemistry

Strengthening Research Through Collaboration

What is Your Scenario?

Where should I be

allocating funds

within Biomedicine?

Who can I recruit

in Economics?

• Total # of Publications• % Publication in Competencies• Growth in % of Publication in Competencies over Years• Top Internal Authors (by publications/competencies

contribution)

Institution Profiling

•Faculty/Departmental – level analysis•Number of multidisciplinary competencies (growth over

years)•% of publications in competencies•Top growing competencies – Investment Sweet Spots•Top authors in competencies

Subject-Focused Analysis

•Global Collaboration Map•Contribution of Existing Institutional Collaborations in

Competencies•Potential Collaborating Authors with Common Research

Strengths

Collaboration Be

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Oth

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tions

How is my

collaboration with

Institution X doing?

Who are the emerging

researchers I should

retain?

What is Institution Y’s

strength in Artificial

Intelligence?

What is Institution Y’s

strength in Artificial

Intelligence?

THANK YOU

For further queries, you can contact

Huiling Ng, H.ng@elsevier.com

Cassandra Teo, C.teo@elsevier.com