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Elevate your institution’s impact. Use SciVal to identify strengths, unlock research opportunities and build valuable global partnerships across disciplines.
Tailor SciVal to your institution’s objectives. Choose from a selection of six modules that reveal research performance insights for over 24,000 institutions worldwide.
Watch the video opens in new tab/window to learn how each module supports different research challenges.
Access high-level insights about your institution’s research performance and how it compares to your peers’.
Evaluate the performance of institutions, researchers or departments
Understand research strengths in specific Research Areas, Publication Sets or Topics
Identify potential partners for exciting collaborations
Analyze the actual bibliometrics used in Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Rankings, and U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings.
Compare your research performance to peer groups and institutions in your region, country and across the world.
Analyze collaboration partners
Understand developments in fields over time
Stay up to date on recent developments in relevant fields
Assess research performance, ranking and impact metrics
Build insightful reports
Evaluate your contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Build world-class research teams by connecting with research expertise on and beyond your institution. Find potential research partners and track existing collaborators to deliver mission critical insights.
Evaluate existing partnerships through interactive maps and tables
Identify new opportunities for global collaboration partnerships
Filter by subjects, location, sector, number of authors and Research Areas
Keep up with advancements in any field of research. Investigate trends, analyze developments and identify leading experts worldwide.
Track developments through graphs, tables, charts and keyphrase analyses
Define your interests and specify areas of research to investigate
Identify key researchers and institutions contributing to a research field
Demonstrate the impact of your institution’s research and how it shapes society.
View impact data, metrics and insights
Identify policy mentions and patent citations
Develop impact narratives for funding bids and case studies
Strengthen promotion, tenure and job applications with impact analytics and narratives
Showcase your broader impact to the public, potential donors, governments and funding bodies
Reinforce your institution’s strategic research planning with a clear view of the external funding landscape.
Discover emerging trends and active funding bodies in areas of strategic interest
Identify leading researchers and funding recipients
Analyze peer strategies
Explore areas for growth in relevant fields
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.
"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 a curated abstract and citation database. It offers enriched data and interlinked scholarly literature from over 7000 publishers across disciplines. SciVal is an advanced analytics solution built on Scopus data. It helps users evaluate any research field, allowing them to understand the research performance of individuals, research groups, departments, institutions, and countries.
SciVal derives meaningful insights from research information, using artificial intelligence and advanced data science methods to support decision making for impact makers.
SciVal can support decision making across a broad range of areas 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 compare to 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 demonstrate research 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?
At SciVal’s core is data from Scopus, a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts. In addition to bibliometric data from Scopus, SciVal also includes policy (Overton), patent (LexisNexis IP DirectData), mass media and awarded grants data. SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to the current date, covering over 75 million records. SciVal receives a weekly update of new data from Scopus, with processing times taking roughly one to two weeks.
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.
