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The UK’s European university
SciValEvaluate research performance worldwide
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)
Who is ituseful for?• Academics• Research Support staff• Staff working to support partnerships
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
A closer look at SciVal features
MetricsSciVal 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• collaborationfor researchers, institutions, countries,publication sets and research areas.
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
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
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
We’llsupport you• How to create an account and log
in:www.kent.ac.uk/library/research/scival
• Technical help and training:[email protected]
• For support at every stage of the research cycle:[email protected]
CreditsInformation and screenshots from www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/resource-library/scival-new-generation-factsheet(you can find more information there too)
THE UK’S EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
www.kent.ac.uk
