Introducing SciVal
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SciVal is a research assessment tool that provides comprehensive data on citations and publishing collaborations for over 4,600 institutions worldwide. It is useful for academics and research support staff to analyze research performance, compare institutions, and explore collaborative opportunities. Key features include visualizing research performance, benchmarking progress, and developing partnerships based on publication output and citation impact.
Introducing SciVal
- 1. The UK’s European university Introducing SciValEvaluate research performance worldwide
- 2. What is SciVal? A research assessment tool that holds data on citations and publishing collaborations. •Data on individuals, institutions, countries and research areas •Worldwide (4600 institutions in 220 countries) •Huge range (over 30 million publications from 1996 to the present) •Data comes from Scopus and ScienceDirect (SciVal’s metrics are more advanced than Scopus, and the interface is easier to use)
- 3. Who is it useful for? •Academics •Research Support staff •Staff working to support partnerships
- 4. What can you do with SciVal? •Easily see research performance in charts and reports •Compare the research performance of individuals and institutions •Gather statistics for funding bids and publicity •Find opportunities for collaboration •Analyse research trends •Find who’s researching in specific areas
- 5. A closer look at SciVal features
- 6. Metrics SciVal uses a wide range of industry-accepted and easy-to-interpret metrics including Snowball Metrics (a global standard in Higher Education). You can use these to measure information such as •productivity •citation impact •collaboration for researchers, institutions, countries, publication sets and research areas.
- 7. Visualise research performance •Access research performance summaries of any research entities •Identify their unique strengths and research areas •Retrieve at-a-glance, standardised reports instantly •Access competency maps for all institutions and countries
- 8. Benchmark your progress •Compare performance of institutions, countries, and groups, or create your own research areas and monitor progress over time •Perform in-depth analyses by selecting a combination of subject areas and metrics •Identify relative strengths and weaknesses to optimise your strategy
- 9. Develop partnerships •Identify and analyse collaboration based on publication output and citation impact •Explore your institution’s current and prospective partnerships on Google maps •Identify your top collaborative institutions and co-authorship by drilling into specific subject areas and research topics
- 10. We’ll support you •How to create an account and log in: www.kent.ac.uk/library/research/sci val •Technical help and training: eresources@kent.ac.uk •For support at every stage of the research cycle: researchsupport@kent.ac.uk
- 11. Credits Information and screenshots from www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/resource- library/scival-new-generation-factsheet (you can find more information there too)
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