Operate

Reduce administrative burden and support your people through connected workflows, integrated information and AI — freeing your institution to focus resources where they count.

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Remove the friction so your teams can focus on impact

According to Elsevier's High Performance Objectives research, only 27% of global academic leaders said they felt well-prepared to retain talent. Our solutions help you:

Streamline faculty and research workflows, so staff spend less time on administration and can focus on what matters
Connect data across systems to give leaders a complete view of activity and resource allocation
Ensure digital transformation and AI genuinely free capacity, rather than shifting complexity

Download our free guide to explore strategies for streamlining operations, reducing administrative workload and achieving sustainability goals while driving institutional resilience.

Interfolio: Give your faculty one place for reviews, promotions and activity reporting

Bring faculty workflows — from activity tracking to review and promotion — into one place, with publication data populated automatically. Your academics spend less time on administration and you get full visibility into faculty contribution across teaching, research and service.

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Pure: Consolidate your research data in one governed platform

Aggregate outputs, awards, partnerships and compliance information into a single governed platform, reducing duplication and giving you a consolidated, validated view of research activity to report from. Additionally, the same structured, reliable data is ready for advanced analytics and responsible AI use.

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LeapSpace: Accelerate research workflows with responsible AI

Equip your research teams with AI that summarizes sources, surfaces relevant evidence and identifies gaps — so they spend less time on literature reviews and evidence assessments. Built for institutional trust and security, it supports responsible AI adoption across your institution.

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SciVal: Compare your performance and make informed resource decisions

Understand not just where your research stands today, but the momentum and funding signals shaping where to direct people, time and funding. Replace fragmented, reactive resourcing with a connected, evidence-based view through Topic Prominence and funding alignment data.

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Scopus: Streamline operations with Scopus integration

Reduce administrative effort by integrating Scopus author and publication data into your RIMS or FIS, giving you a consistent, evidence-based view of each researcher’s or faculty member’s Scopus-indexed scholarly output.

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Operate in the Impact Model

Operate helps institutions consider how people, processes, information and workflows support effective delivery.

Alongside Strategize, Collaborate, Promote and Evaluate, it helps institutions connect delivery with wider priorities, relationships, reputation and progress.

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To be able to have faculty buy-in to a system which impacts important milestones and processes for them is huge — and I think it’s a testament to the kind of care and quality Interfolio puts into their products.Read the full case studyopens in new tab/window

Michael McCaw

Associate Director of Academic Appointments at Office of the Provost, New York University

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