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Strategize

Gain the trusted data and insights you need to define a clear strategic direction, identify opportunities and align your institution around a shared vision of success.

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Align competing priorities around a clear strategy

Elsevier's High Performance Objectives research found that only 56% of academic leaders felt well-prepared to ensure research excellence. Our solutions help you:

  • Know where to focus limited resources when every faculty, school and discipline has different priorities and ambitions

  • Build a shared sense of direction that unites faculties, departments and professional services around common goals

  • Make strategic choices with confidence, backed by evidence rather than assumption

Download our free guide for research-backed strategies to balance institutional priorities, keep pace with change and deliver sustained excellence.

SciVal: Identify opportunities to shape a strategic vision

Connect performance, impact and funding data to reveal where your institution's research strengths and emerging opportunities lie. SciVal gives you the evidence base to set priorities, allocate resources and plan future direction with clarity.

Pure: Assess strengths and weaknesses through institution-wide research data

Bring together research data from across your institution — outputs, awards, partnerships and compliance reporting — into a single connected record, so you can assess internal strengths and capabilities with confidence.

Interfolio: Align your greatest strategic asset — your faculty

Centralize your faculty activity data across teaching, research and service. A complete view of academic contributions helps you make better-informed decisions about appointments, promotion and where your institution needs to grow its expertise.

Scopus: Ground every strategic choice in trusted data

Explore curated publication, abstract and citation data from a broad range of scholarly sources. Author profiles link researchers to their publications, citations and co-authors, while institutional profiles document output by subject area and show where collaboration is happening. Together, these insights help you see where disciplinary strengths are concentrated and how research activity is shifting across your institution.

Strategize in the Impact Model

Strategize helps institutions use evidence to consider where to focus, invest and differentiate.

Alongside Collaborate, Operate, Promote and Evaluate, it helps institutions consider how strategic choices connect to partnerships, delivery, reputation and progress.

Through comparisons with our benchmark universities, SciVal makes our strategic planning more effective. We can analyze future research trends and university world rankings to create a research agenda and make strategic decisions about how we collaborate with other universities. Read the full case study featuring SciVal, Scopus & Pureopens in new tab/window
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Huey-Jen Su

President at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan

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Each issue offers practical guidance, insights and frameworks to help institutions align strategy with direction, and connect vision to action across priorities such as operational efficiency, digital transformation and institutional impact.

Prefer to talk it through? Contact our team to discover how our solutions can help you set a clear strategic direction for your institution.

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