• Aileen Christensen – SciVal marketing

• Marcel Vonder – SciVal product

SciVal
Universidad de Cádiz

Annapaola Migani PhD

Consultant Research Intelligence
Marzo 2019
OUTLINE
• Brief Introduction on SciVal Structure and Data
• Collaborations Deep Dive
− The Importance of Collaborations for Impact
− How to Investigate a Collaboration Further
− Topic of Prominence in Scopus
− New Collaborations using Topics of Prominence
− Constructing and using Research Areas for Collaborations
• Creating and maintaining groups of researchers
• Who is citing my topics?

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Brief Introduction on SciVal
Structure and Data
SciVal in a nutshell
SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of over
10,000 research institutions and 230 regions and countries

Visualize Benchmark Develop Analyze

research your progress collaborative research
performance partnerships trends
Ready-made-at a glance Flexibility to create and Identify and analyze Analyze research trends to
snapshots of any compare any research existing and potential discover the top performers
selected entity groups collaboration opportunities and rising stars
The layers of SciVal

Big Data technology

Publication, citation and Scopus usage data

awarded grants, mass media mentions, patent-article citations
The foundation of SciVal

Publication,
Citation, usage data

Publication, citation and Scopus usage data, mass media mentions, patent-article citations
Collaborations deep dive
 ACADEMIC PRESTIGE
Why Collaborations?
FUNDING
• AUTHORS IMPACT, FWCI
• INSTITUTIONS Citations per paper
• How can SciVal COMPLEX
help you/your PROBLEMS MULTI-
institution to NEW Collaborations DISCIPLINARITY
identify your/their TECHNIQUES
strengths?
• How can SciVal
help you/your
RESEARCH PEOPLE EXCHAGE VISIBILITY
institution in being
strategic in PROGRAMS INCOMING STUDENT,
choosing your/their
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collaborations? INTERNATIONALIZATION
Trends in Collaborations
• International
Collaborations
have higher
impact
• Consistent
across
disciplines

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¿Predice el índice FWCI la puntuación de citas en
la clasificación THE WUR? Pompeu
 FWCI (Field Weighted Citation Oxford
100
Fabra
Impact): manera aceptada de

THE WUR 2019 Citation Score

medir el impacto 90
80
• Normaliza el número de
70
citas por publicación, por año
60
de publicación, categoría
temática y tipo de 50
documento 40
30
• > 1 está por encima del Spain UK
20
promedio mundial
10
 Las instituciones con alto 0
índice FWCI reciben una 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4
puntuación de citas más alta
en la clasificación THE WUR 2013-2017 FWCI (Fuente: SciVal, Enero 2019)

II Reunión de Servicios de Evaluación Científica en las Universidades

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FWCI per Subject Area

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Collaborations
• Entity: University of
Cádiz
• Collaborations

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Collaborations
• Entity: University of
Cádiz
• Collaborations

Say we want to know a

bit more about the
collaboration between
Cádiz and Harvard
Remember we can
create a publication set
from any export point in
SciVal

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How can we investigate a collaboration further
• We export the
publications
• NOTE: We
already have
some indications
that the
collaboration with
Harvard is highly
influenced by
hyper
collaborations in
physics

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How can we investigate a collaboration further
• We export the
publications
• Enough with
documents EID
• Open Excel and
Copy EIDs

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How can we investigate a collaboration further
• MySciVal
• Entity:Publication Set
• Import a Publication
Set
• Collaborations
Cádiz&Harvard
available in MySciVal
to be analized

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How can we investigate a collaboration further
• Load
Publication Set
by dragging it
• Available in
Publication Sets
• Analize in
Overview

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How can we investigate a collaboration further
• FWCI=16.25
• Careful, FWCI is computed
for a small group of articles
(27). The value is highly
influenced by “outliers”,
highly-cited articles in the
group
• Very large number of authors
for a very small data set.
• These data seem to indicate
hyper collaborations in
Physics(Astrophysics)
resulting in highly cited
articles

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Let us check the set of data more carefully
(paper by paper)
• Very large number
of authors for a
very small data
set.

You can access

the articles here!

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Let us check the set of data more carefully
(paper by paper)
• 625 Authors

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How to get rid of hyper collaborated articles
• Use author
number filters

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How to get rid of hyper collaborated articles
• Use the ASJC
filter
• Neuroscience

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You can study which other institutions are co-
authoring with both of you

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Start analysing collaborations using ASJC filter
• Collaborations
in Social
Science
• Top 10
Institutions are
in Spain
• Change the
filter according
to your area,
medicine, arts
& humanities

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Start analysing collaborations using ASJC filter
• Collaborations
in Arts and
Humanities
• 1 Collaboration
with CNRS
• Change the
filter according
to your area,
medicine, arts
& humanities

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Which is the Topic of Prominence of this article?

The affiliation is
well specified!

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Topics of Prominence in Scopus
• Beeswax| Lipids
| Organic
residues
• Watch for PlumX
Metrics
• Article is being
receiving
attention in
Mendeley

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 • Who else is
Topics of Prominence in Scopus working in this
Topic?
• Beeswax| Lipids | Organic residues • Let us look for
AUTHORS collaborations
in this Topic!

TRENDS
DOCUMENTS

FINGERPRINT
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 Classificazione dei documenti e estrazione
Motore per
parole/frasi chiave impronte OUTPUT
digitali (FPE)
INPUT OUTPUT /INPUT Four wave
mixing | Laser
1 1 pulses | four-
Tutti i
documenti wave
97K global mixing (T.1990
e citazioni 97K temi di
research ricerca 1)
di Scopus Diet,
topics
a partire Mediterranea
del 1996 16 4 n | Diet |
11
mediterranea
• Classificazione delle pubblicazioni sulla base dell’analisi della rete n diet
delle citazioni: le pubblicazioni con il maggior numero di (T.6419)
connessioni di citazioni formano un gruppo che corrisponde a un Oxide
tema minerals | rutile
• Research Portfolio Analysis and Topic of Prominence R. Klavans & | rutile
K. Bovack Journal of Infometrics, 11:1158-1174(2017)
(http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03453)
TiO2(110 (T.337
9)
Topics of Prominence
• Beeswax| Lipids | Organic residues (T.21341)
• First of all, where are the Topics of Prominence in SciVal?
• Which are the Topics of Prominence of University of Cádiz in Arts and
Humanities?
• They are found in Overview under Topics and Topic Clusters
Tip: Watch the video:
Thinking outside the
They are ranked
box! Analyze your
according to research activities
number of
publications
globally with SciVal,
https://www.brighttalk.
com/webcast/13819/3
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17029
Beeswax| Lipids | Organic residues (T.21341)

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Beeswax| Lipids | Organic residues (T.21341) @
Cádiz

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Beeswax| Lipids | Organic residues (T.21341) @
Spain, Europe, World for Comparison

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Publication Strategy: Which other journals are
being used worldwide for the Topic?
Export to TRICK!
access Top 100
Titles

Rank them
according to
Journal Metrics
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SNIP)
 TRICK!
Most Active Institutions
• Interesting
UK, French
Institutions
• Rank them
using
different
metrics
• Export the
excel to get
top 500

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Top Authors Cádiz

Use filter to
access Spain,
Europe, World

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Top Authors Spain, Europe, World

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Constructing and using
Research Areas for
Collaborations
Building research areas from Topics
You can also
type the Topic
Number

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Building research areas from Topics

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Available to be analysed via the Collaboration
Module

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Current Collaboration
• Italy, Portugal,
France

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Potential Collaborations
• Hogher Research
Intensity In Europe
compared to North
America, Asia Pacific

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• Incoming Visitor
• New
Collaborator

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Niche field based on keywords
• Let us suppose we were looking to identify existing and potential
collaborators in the area of optical tweezers.
• We can easily construct a research area to capture this field of research
• Every research area you create becomes a filter in the collaboration
module.

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Creating and maintaining
groups of researchers
MySciVal > Researchers & Groups > Import
Researchers

TIP: Watch the Video:

Importing Researchers &
Creating your Hierarchies in
SciVal
https://www.brighttalk.com/w
ebcast/13819/343411/importi
ng-researchers-creating-
your-hierarchies-in-scival
An example of what’s needed
Recommendations
Practical Example
Results from ‘raw’ import

Export a list of the missing names

and check the on Scopus, then
amend the main spreadsheet.
Then tackle the yellow names.
Import Researchers, Available in MySciVal

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Keeping structures up to date
People Join and Leave
Export the Scopus ID’s of the group you want to update,
Analyze the researchers’s group in
Benchmarking

TIP: Watch the video SciVal Reporting: Simple, time-saving tips

& tricks, https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13819/313991
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Who is citing my topics?
Concatenation Klaxon
Concatenation is very useful tool for constructing bulk searches in Scopus (or any other
database with a sensible search language).
In essence concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For
example, the concatenation of “alt" and “metrics" is “altmetrics".
We know that Scopus searches consist of a field and variant
Field(xxxx)
TITLE-ABS-KEY ( phonon )
Concatenation Klaxon
By using Excel we can create a template to hold your variants

AFFILCOUNTRY( Angola ) AFFILCOUNTRY( Angola)

OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Burundi ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Burundi)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Democratic Republic Congo ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY(Democratic Republic Congo)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Cameroon ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Cameroon)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Central African Republic ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Central African Republic)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Chad ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Chad)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Republic of the Congo ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Republic of the Congo)
OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Equatorial Guinea ) OR AFFILCOUNTRY( Equatorial Guinea)
Concatenation Klaxon
Nice examples can involve keyword lists, country lists, DOI’s or EID’s.
You can export a list of EID’s from SciVal and bulk load them into Scopus, this can allow you
to find extra information such as funding details or who has cited these publications.
Who is citing my topics?
• Who is citing your work? Which researchers from which institutions?
• Start of by picking a topic of prominence, click on view list of publications?

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Who is citing my topics?
• Export the EID’s from the Topic
• Use concatenation in excel as follows
Who is citing my topics?
• Paste the EID’s into Column B
• Copy column E and paste in Scopus advance search
Who is citing my topics?
Once you have loaded these onto Scopus, select all and click on View Cited by
Who is citing my topics?
You can now see the publications that have cited yours, click on all and then export
Who is citing my topics?
Export the EID’s
Who is citing my topics?
Load the EID’s into SciVal as a publication set

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Who is citing my topics?
• When importing the cited by EID’s back into SciVal, chances are some will
not be matched, this is due to the SciVal data cut (these publications have
not made their way into SciVal yet)

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Who is citing my topics?
• Open in Overview and choose institutions, you can now see where the
citations are coming from

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Who is citing my topics?
• Choose the authors tab to see who exactly is citing you, great for potential
collaborations, future hires and studying the competition.

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 Find out more
SciVal https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/13819/elseviers-research-intelligence

Contact:
a.migani@elsevier.com
Research Metrics Guidebook
• Topics – Expand and enhance
• Organisational hierarchies in SciVal –
Easy method to create and maintain
• Reporting – Simplify, enhance and
expand the functionality
• Improve our metrics support –
Relaunched support hub, refreshed
Metrics Guidebook, in-product guidance,
reporting templates, Metrics wizard
• Additional – REF year range, new
subject classifications, home institution
filter and hyper-authored papers,
Collaboration module overhaul
Two Golden Rules for using research metrics

Always use both qualitative Always use more than one

and quantitative input into research metric as the
your decisions quantitative input

Benefit from the strengths of both One metric’s strengths can complement the
approaches. Don’t replace one with the other weaknesses of others

Combining both approaches = closer to the

There are many different ways of being excellent
whole story

Valuable intelligence comes when these Using multiple metrics drives desirable
approaches show different messages changes in behaviour (harder to game)
 How to choose a metric

There are 6 factors, which can

affect the value of a metric:
• Size
• Publication-type
• Manipulation
• Discipline
• Database coverage
• Time
A basket of >30 sets of metrics at your disposal
Collaboration metrics
Productivity metrics Collaboration (geographical)
Scholarly Output Collaboration Impact (geographical)
Outputs in Top Percentiles Academic-Corporate Collaboration
Publications in Top Journal Percentiles Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact

Disciplinarity metrics
Citation Impact metrics
Journal count
Citation Count
Journal category count
Citations per Publication
Cited Publications
Number of Citing Countries Usage metrics (Trends module)
h-indices (h, g, m) Views Count
Field-Weighted Citation Impact Views per Publication
Citing-Patent Count Field-Weighted Views Impact
Patent-Cited Scholarly Output
Patent-Citations Count
Societal Impact Metrics
Patent-Citations per Scholarly Output
Mass Media
Media Exposure

Snowball Metric; www.snowballmetrics.com/metrics