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Show the difference your research makes

Using globally recognized impact metrics, SciVal helps you build narratives around your institution’s work and show the contribution it’s making to society.

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Demonstrate the impact of your research

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How do you convey the value of your institution’s research? Demonstrating a tangible impact can be challenging. 

SciVal’s Impact module gives you the data, metrics and insights you need to tell the story of your research impact, clearly and effectively. 

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Highlight how your research affects policy

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The Impact module also helps you find policy mentions and other insights, so you can demonstrate how your research affects policy-making. 

  • Use policy citations to inform your impact narratives 

  • Help external stakeholders understand the impact of your research programs on policy 

  • Highlight your impact in marketing and media communications

Showcase your technological research

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Patent citations reveal pathways from research to technological innovations. 

  • Discover patents citing your research  

  • Demonstrate the technological and economic impact of your programs to external stakeholders  

  • Use impact data to inform promotional material 

Enhance your reputation

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Attract donors, partnerships and funding – and lift your insititution’s public perception – by demonstrating the real-world impact of your research. 

  • Benchmark your societal, political and technological impact against peers 

  • Improve promotion and tenure applications, university webpages and research portals with impact data 

  • Collect evidence to inform Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings submissions and management-level reports 

Use impact to enrich your case studies

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By uncovering publication mentions in policy documents and patent citations, you can complement your local knowledge to: 

  • Enrich funding bids with impact narratives and metrics 

  • Develop clear impact narratives for national assessments 

  • Support team building for targeted funding bids by identifying key researchers influencing policy-making and driving innovation in priority fields

Find the researchers who are shaping policy

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Using SciVal to find citation metrics, you can find influential researchers on and off campus. 

  • Identify innovative researchers to inform your hiring and partnership strategies 

  • Find participants for policy committees, media activity and outreach initiatives 

  • Highlight experts cited in key policy documents who may strengthen your research programs 

Track progress and update colleagues

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You can use SciVal’s comprehensive reporting tools to generate custom analyses around the difference your institution is making.  

  • Create analyses across each of the six SciVal module

  • Choose predefined reporting templates or adapt one to fit your needs 

  • Work more efficiently by saving your most-used reports as templates 

  • Share your impact reports with other stakeholders and your institution’s other SciVal users 

The tools to reveal your institution’s value

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Find out how SciVal’s six complementary modules can help you analyze and capitalize on your institution’s impact.

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