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Coen van der Krogt

Product Sales Manager

December 9, 2010

c.krogt@elsevier.com

Innovative Ways to Support Researchers and Research Management

SciVal Spotlight

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Multiple Trends Impact The Research Landscape

Improve research outcomes

Multidisciplinarity

Competition / CollaborationHigh mobility

Accountability / Government policies

ResearchStrategy

& Research

Performance

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Scopus Supporting Researchers Supporting Performance Evaluation Basis for analytical and workflow tools from the

SciVal suite

SciVal SpotlightSupporting Research Management

Agenda

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Scopus - Most comprehensive Abstracts and Citations database

Increased prestige, ranking and funding because you . . .

. . . improve your institutional productivity . . .

. . . by enabling the management to make better decisions . . .

. . . and improving student and researcher productivity . . .

…because Scopus (a) enables you to evaluate performance and quality accurately . . .

. . . (b) offers you the most efficient and effective search . . .

. . . and (c) provides access to the most comprehensive content . . .

. . . thereby unlocking the library’s full potential enabled by . . .

Best evaluation of performance and quality:• Broadest coverage of peer-reviewed, high quality journals• Globally as well as locally• More accurate citation count, fairer recognition for work

Improve productivity of Researcher and Student:• Most efficient and effective search• Access to most comprehensive content

Secure institutional success . . .

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Scopus has significantly more journals in its database than WoS

Source: JISC Collections Academic Database

WoS total: 11,419 Scopus total: 19,981

Unique WoS titles: 896

Unique Scopus titles:

9,458

Joint titles:10,523

Year 2010

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Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences

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1000

2000

Humanities & creative arts

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2000

4000

6000

Engineering & environmental Sciences

Social, Behavioural & Economic Sciences

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1250

2500

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2500

5000

Mathematics, Information & Communication Sciences

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2000

4000

Biological Sciences and Biotechnology

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3500

7000

Biomedical &Clinical Research

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1500

3000

Public and Health Services

Scopus has a large article coverage per subject area

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1000

2000

3000

4000

Scopus versus WoS content coverage (number of journals)Scopus

Web of Science

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Less than 10% of our nearest competitor’s journals come from outside North America and Western Europe

Scopus has more than 20% of its journals from outside this region

Scopus covers “local” content for local audiences and for audiences who want to know what is happening elsewhere

a perfect global coverage

Scopus

Web of Science

300

150

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500

250

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2,000

1,000

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2,000

1,000

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8,000

4,000

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Scopus versus WoS geographical coverage (number of journals)

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Example: higher coverage of local journals from Croatia in Scopus

78 active titles (total 104, including 26 inactive titles)

January 2010 Figures

+229% (active

titles)

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Journal Evaluation – some challenges:

• I’m a publishing author in a niche area, how can I compare with researchers in another scientific field?

• How can I get a value that reflects citation behaviour in my research area?

• It’s 2010 – why can I only get a ranking relevant to 2008?• Where can I find the data that have been used to generate

this number?• The Impact Factor does not cover the journal I’m publishing

in. What now?

Summary: Difficult to compare Not recent enoughLack of clarity of data originLack of coverage

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January 2010: 2 new journal metrics in Scopus - SJR and SNIP

SJR - SCImago Journal Rank

SNIP - Source-Normalized Impact per Paper

Comparison Normalization of differences between fieldsRecent Refreshed twice per year: April and

SeptemberData origin Eliminates risk of manipulationCoverage All 19,000+ journals, proceedings and book

series in Scopus receive SJR and SNIP values

www.journalmetrics.com

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Journal Analyzer in Scopus

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...Elsevier Is Changing With You

Solutions based on Scopus

Supporting Research Management

The Research Landscape is changing

13Performance & EvaluationPerformance & Evaluation Demonstration of Expertise NetworkDemonstration of Expertise Network Research SupportResearch Support

Institution/CountryInstitution/Country Researcher/GroupResearcher/Group InstitutionInstitution ResearcherResearcherAGGREGATION

SpotlightSpotlight StrataStrata FundingFundingShowcaseShowcaseExpert

Profiling

Expert

Profiling

Scopus-

EP-VIVO

Scopus-

EP-VIVO

SciVerse

Scopus

SciVerse

Scopus

VC/President Dean•VC/President

•Library

•VC/President•Dir. Research

Admin.•Dean

VC/PresidentDir. Research

Admin.Library

Office of Research•Dean

•Dept. Head•Researchers

•Students•Researchers

•Dir. Research Admin.

•Researchers

•Researchers•Research Admin

Staff•Researchers

•What are my interdisciplinary

strengths?

•Who are the high performers in my

strategic priorities?

•How can I act upon my competitive

advantage?

•How are my researchers performing

relative to their peers?

•I want to evaluate researchers with

the criteria that are important to me.

•I want to demonstrate my

institution’s research expertise in the areas that are of strategic

importance to us

I need to find researchers in other disciplines that I can

collaborate with in my institution (or within the EP community)

Dir. Research Administration: I

need to easily populate VIVO with

my researchers’ profiles

Researchers: I need to find researchers

from other institutions with whom I can

collaborate

•Find funding opportunities

•Determine the right funding strategy

•Increase success rates

•What are the most highly-cited

articles and authors within a research area?

•h-index of an author

•Overview of all of an author or

institution’s publications

Positioning Overview: SciVal Suite

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Determining research strategy at the level where it counts: the 

topics that researchers are focused on, not the fields they're in 

Identifying researchers with certain expertise for recruitment or collaboration

Assessing productivity

and impact of researchers and their output

Demonstrating research

excellence for the institution

Finding grants that are matched to the right research topic or researcher

Spotlight

Funding

Strata

Showcase

Expert Profiling

Reviewer Finder

Scopus.com

PRIMARY CUSTOMER GOAL(S) SUPPORTED BY THE SUITE

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SciValSpotlight

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1. Definition: • Spotlight is a web based solution to identify the

institutional research strengths. With the aim to assess the institutional strategy of research management

• It is NOT an evaluation tool for authors or papers

2. What we define as a research strength (competency)?

• Areas of research (multi- or single-discipline) where our institution has a significant quantity of papers (from one or more authors) published during the last 5 years

• So some highly cited authors may not be shown...

WHAT IS SPOTLIGHT ?

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3. How we define the areas of research?• Not by: disciplines, key words or journals.• By the CO-CITATION ANALYSIS and the yearly creation of the map of

science (Klavans & Boyack).

WHAT IS SPOTLIGHT ?

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Pape

r 1

Ref.

Paper

A

Ref.

Paper

B

Pape

r 2

Ref.

Paper

A

Ref.

Paper

BPape

r 3

Ref.

Paper

A

Ref.

Paper

B

Strength of relationship

proportional to frequency of

the co-citation linkage

1

Paper

1

Ref.

Paper

A

Ref.

Paper

B

A and B have a

cognitive

relationship

CO-CITATION ANALYSIS: BASED ON TWO ASSUMPTIONS

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4. What is the base of co-citation analysis?• We group all the papers indexed in SCOPUS during the last 5 years

in clusters (approx 90.000) based on their references.• We select the clusters in which our institution has a significant number

of papers (compared with the largest competitor world wide - RAS). • We group the selected clusters in competencies based on the

references of the papers published by our institution

CO-CITATION ANALYSIS: BASED ON TWO ASSUMPTIONS

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SAME CLUSTERS; DIFFERENT GROUPINGS = DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCIES

Einstein University’s

map•DC 1 = cluster A

•EC 2 = clusters B, C & D

Athena University’s

map•DC 1 = clusters C, D & E

•EC 2 = cluster B

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Identify Competencies and Market Strengths Attract Funding Spot Interdisciplinary Trends Strengthen Collaboration Improve Recruitment and Retention Use Funds More Strategically

SciVal Spotlight – Research Portfolio Analysis and Optimization

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Insight in global strengths

MULTI-DISCIPLINARYRESEARCH AREAS

MULTI-DISCIPLINARYRESEARCH AREAS

MEDICINEBIOTECHNOLOGY

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

BIOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

ENGINEERING

CHEMISTRY

MATHS & PHYSICSCOMPUTER SCIENCE

SOCIAL SCIENCE

BRAIN RESEARCH

HEALTH SCIENCE

RESEARCH AREAWITH GLOBAL STRENGTH (Competency)

RESEARCH AREAWITH GLOBAL STRENGTH (Competency)

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Insight in global strengths

Each circle represents aDistinctive/Emerging

Competencyfor your institution

A larger circle means a larger market size (number

of publications) for this Distinctive Competency

Circles positioned towardsthe middle indicate aninterdisciplinary mix

MULTI-DISCIPLINARYRESEARCH AREAS

MULTI-DISCIPLINARYRESEARCH AREAS

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Matrix from the Boston Consulting Group 25

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Relative Market Share

VISUALIZATION - MATRIX

MATRIX VIEW: Distinctive competency performance relative to your largest competitor

Find rapidly emerging areas of research;

potential areas for further investment

Select a view to see in which

areas you are growing orreducing market share

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The 2009 Spotlight map of

University of Zagreb

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General Statistics

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University of Zagreb

127 (low level) competencies

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University of Zagreb

12 high level competencies

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Clicking through from high level to low level competencies

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Low level competencies within high level competency Medical Specialties

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Clicking through to the details of DC1

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Looking at the details of DC1

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More details on DC1

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What are the top authors in DC1?

Check the metrics for the most interesting authors

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What are the top authors in DC1 from University of Zagreb?

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Click on an author, to get more details

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What are the top authors in DC1 collaborating with University of Zagreb?

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Combining ‘’All authors’’ with ‘’Collaborating authors’’ leads to new potential collaborators

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What are the top institutions in DC1?

Check the metrics for the most interesting institutions

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What are the top institutions in DC1 collaborating with University of Zagreb?

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Combining ‘’All institutions’’ with ‘’Collaborating institutions’’ leads to new potential collaborators

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Overview of all competencies

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Reaching and Maintaining Leadership

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High Level Competency's map of 2009

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Reaching and maintaining leadership

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Reaching and maintaining leadership

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Details of EC 18. Quality indicators

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Institutions in EC18

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Authors in EC18

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Collaboration sheet – future functionality

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Identify Competencies and Market Strengths Attract Funding Spot Interdisciplinary Trends Strengthen Collaboration Improve Recruitment and Retention Use Funds More Strategically

SciVal Spotlight – Summary

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Thank you for your attention.

Questions?

Coen van der Krogtc.krogt@elsevier.comTel: +31 6 3011 6125

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Backup slides

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1. Comparing different years?

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2008 MAP 2009

Different position different multidisciplinary mix.

Different position means different strategic market position.

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General Statistics

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Comparing the years?

The reasons comparison of maps year-to-year has some limitations, is because thealgorithm that drives Spotlight goes back to five years of prior articles as an analyticwindow. When a new year map is created, roughly 20% of the articles (i.e. from 2004)are dropped and a new full year of data (2009) is added. In future releases, we arecommitted to making it easier to compare maps year-to-year by introducing time-seriesanalysis capabilities into Spotlight.

632. The 2009 Spotlight map of

Ruder Boskovic Institute

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Ruder Boskovic Institute

36 (low level) competencies

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