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SciVal provides strategic insights to help your research programs thrive
Unlock strategic insights with SciVal to identify strengths and partnership opportunities, build capacity for interdisciplinary research, optimize ranking strategies and elevate your institution's impact and academic leadership.
Gain new insights on global research with power and flexibility
A flexible, modular solution
SciVal's modular solution provides access to research performance data of over 24,000 research institutions and their associated researchers based across more than 230 nations worldwide. You can tailor the platform to suit your institution's specific needs, selecting the modules that are most relevant to your research objectives.
We understand the importance of keeping up with the changing needs of our users. That's why we are continually improving SciVal to provide you with the best possible experience. Our 2025 roadmap provides a snapshot of our recent releases and a sneak peek at what's to come for SciVal.
SciVal's key benefits that contribute to research success
Worldwide coverage
Gain access to the research performance of global research institutions and their affiliated researchers, allowing you to perform simple or more complex analyses
Based on Scopus data
SciVal relies on the curated, comprehensive and authoritative data source that is Scopus ® using an array of simple and more sophisticated metrics.
Tailored reports
Generate customized reports effortlessly using the user-friendly interface. These reports help keep stakeholders informed, track progress, and inform management choices.
Sustainable Development Goals research benchmarking
Use SDG search strings in pre-defined Research Areas to benchmark your SDG research against other institutions and identify top researchers in a particular SDG.
Bibliometrics, rankings and transparency
The Ranking analysis in SciVal provides transparency into the bibliometrics used in the Times Higher Education and QS World University Ranking for ranked universities.
In-depth research performance overview
Perform analysis and scenario modeling for any researcher or groups in the world, based on full publication history through our Scopus Author Profiles.
"The best feature of SciVal [is that] it allows me to import researchers from my school, and then group them into their organizational units. I can then analyze them at institute-level research groups, right down to the individual researchers. Another unique feature is [that] we can easily share the information with other senior managers.”
KC
Kirsty Collinge
Research Administrator at Heriot-Watt University, U.K
Scopus® is an expertly curated database featuring abstracts and citations, offering enriched data and interlinked scholarly literature from over 7000 publishers across disciplines.
SciVal is an advanced analytics solution, built on a core of Scopus® data, that enables the flexible evaluation of any research field as well as the research performance of individuals, research groups, departments, institutions, and countries. SciVal applies advanced data science and techniques such as machine learning to provide meaningful insights from research information to support decision making.
SciVal can support decision making across a broad range of use cases from informing strategic research planning, to identifying outstanding partners and evaluating research performance. Some common questions that SciVal can help answer include:
Strategic research planning: What are our emerging, growing and niche areas of research expertise?
University Rankings: How do we benchmark with peers across the bibliometric data used in major university rankings?
Collaboration and partnerships: Which individuals and organizations globally, and across sectors, represent potential outstanding partners in research fields of interest?
Research evaluation: What metrics can we use to help us evaluate and benchmark researcher, department, faculty and institutional performance?
Research excellence: How can we demonstrateresearch excellence in a way that shows our unique strengths to secure funding and attract the necessary research expertise?
Research Impact: What is the broader impact of our research programs on society?
Team building and talent identification: Who are the key contributors globally, and across sectors, to our priority research fields?
UN SDGs: How can I showcase and benchmark my institutions expertise, outputs, impact, influence and overall contribution to specific fields such as the UN SDGs?
The core of SciVal is based on output and usage data from Scopus®, a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts. In addition to the bibliometric data from Scopus®, SciVal also includes policy, patent, mass media and awarded grants data.
SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to current date, which covers over 60 million records. SciVal receives a weekly update of new data from Scopus and due to processing times this means SciVal is typically 1-2 weeks behind Scopus.
SciVal offers an extensive array of simple and more sophisticated metrics to enable their confident and appropriate use in strategic decision making and benchmarking. There are more than 30 metrics available to use as part of your evidence base, including the bibliometrics used by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE) in their World University Rankings and THE Impact Rankings. Metrics are available in the following areas:
Collaboration
Published
Viewed
Cited
Policy Impact
Patent Impact
Media Impact
Topics
Awarded Grants
University Rankings
For more information about the available metrics and how to use them responsibly, please download the Research Metrics Guidebook opens in new tab/window. We also offer guidance on the responsible usage of metrics within SciVal.
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