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SciVal provides strategic insights to help your research programs thrive

Visualize your organization’s research performance, benchmark it against peers, and identify emerging research trends with SciVal. Our modular solution offers insights to enrich local knowledge, support research strategy, evaluation, and funding success.

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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.

Watch the video opens in new tab/window for a quick introduction to all six SciVal modules and how each can help with different research challenges.

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Overview module: Visualize and understand research performance

The Overview module provides high-level overviews of research performance for you & your peers globally.

  • Profile and evaluate the performance of institutions, researchers or research groups

  • Understand performance and research strengths in specific Research Areas, Publications Sets or Topics

  • Explore your collaborations and identify potential partners

  • Analyze & understand the actual bibliometrics used in THE and QS World University Rankings

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SciVal Overview module

Benchmarking: Evaluate, benchmark & monitor progress

Compare your research performance to others in your region, country and the world with the Benchmarking module.

  • Analyze collaboration partners

  • Profile developments in fields over time

  • Choose from an array of research performance, ranking and impact metrics, zoom in on a year range or subject area, and build insightful reports

  • Benchmark and understand your contribution to the UN SDGs

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SciVal Benchmarking module

Collaboration: Build strong teams and partnerships

Evaluate existing research collaborations and identify potential partners with the Collaboration module.

  • Explore interactive maps and tables to evaluate existing partnerships

  • Filter by subjects, Research Areas defined by you, sectors or authors

  • Identify new opportunities for global collaboration partnerships

  • Enhance team building by uncovering research expertise on and beyond campus

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SciVal collaboration module

Trends: Investigate developments in research

Gain a deep understanding of research fields and leading experts globally with the Trends module.

  • Evaluate Topics, Research Areas and Publication Sets in detail

  • Analyze the developments in fields of interest through graphs, tables, charts and keyphrase analyses

  • Define your own topic or field of interest to investigate and monitor

  • Identify the key institutions contributing to a research field

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SciVal Trends module

Impact: Showcase how your research informs policy

  • Understand and demonstrate the broader impact of your research on society using impact data, metrics and insights with the Impact module.

  • Identify policy mentions and patent citations to develop clear impact narratives for funding bids and case studies

  • Discover researchers influencing policymaking or driving innovation for collaboration opportunities

  • Strengthen promotion and tenure applications with impact analytics and narratives

  • Showcase your broader impact to the public, potential donors, governments and funding bodies

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SciVal Impact module

Grants: Advance your funding strategies

The Grants module provides access to funding landscape intelligence to support strategic planning and execution of research strategies.

  • Discover funding trends in priority areas and the funding bodies active in these areas

  • Identify the leading researchers and funding recipients in your area of interest

  • Profile and understand peer strategies

  • Explore adjacent fields attracting funding as potential areas for growth

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SciVal Grants module

What's new?

SciVal is celebrating a decade of delivering strategic insights! 2014 saw the global launch of SciVal, combining the best parts of SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Strata into a single product. Ten years on it has become an indispensable tool for thousands of university professionals worldwide.

Explore the journey highlights

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 2024 roadmap provides a snapshot of our recent releases and a sneak peek at what's to come for SciVal.

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SciVal's key benefits that contribute to research success

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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”

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Kirsty Collinge

Research Administrator at Heriot-Watt University, U.K

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