Research Metrics: Measuring Research Performance

SciVal is a visualisation tool used to analyse research performance metrics of researchers, departments, institutions, and subject areas.

SciVal is a product of Elsevier and uses Scopus – a multidisciplinary citation database- to access citation data. It receives policy data from Overton and Patent Data from various Patent offices around the world.

SciVal can be accessed online using your University of Dundee login credentials.

SciVal allows users to:

• Benchmark institutions, researcher groups and individual researchers with their peers and measure their research performance
• Analyse specific sets of publications or research areas from a pre-set list or that they define themselves.
• Analyse current and potential collaborators across different sectors and countries. 
• Analyse topics that are gaining prominence worldwide and how involved they are with this topic. They can also analyse under-represented topics in a research field and see if any researchers within their institution have the expertise in these areas.

Entity: the subject being analysed, which could be a single Researcher, Group of Researchers, Institution, Country, Topic etc. These can be chosen from a pre-set list or customised..

Publication Set: can be anything from 1 to 200,000 publications that you define yourself or are shared with you.

Research Area: Can be created by you or provided by SciVal, representing any field of interest to you. Self-created Research Areas can contain up to 200,000 publications and are defined by either using other entities (such as Institutions, Countries and Topics) or through a search. Each week new publications from Scopus are added to the Research Area.

Topic / Topic Cluster: A Topic is a collection of documents with a common focused intellectual interest. A publication can only belong to one Topic. A Topic Cluster is made up of multiple Topics. There are 1,500 and a Topic can only belong to one Topic Cluster

Keyphrases: these are distinctive terms extracted from the entity's publications to help you understand the overall research focus of the entity

For more terms: select glossary from the help () menu.