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Innovative Ways to Support
Researchers and
Research Management
SciVal Spotlight
Coen van der Krogt
Product Sales Manager
December 9, 2010
c.krogt@elsevier.com
Multiple Trends Impact The Research Landscape
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High mobility
Multidisciplinarity
Research
Strategy
Improve
research
&
outcomes
Research
Performance
Competition / Collaboration
Accountability /
Government policies
Agenda
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 Scopus
 Supporting Researchers
 Supporting Performance Evaluation
 Basis for analytical and workflow tools from the
SciVal suite
 SciVal Spotlight
Supporting Research Management
Scopus - Most comprehensive Abstracts and Citations database
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Secure institutional success .
..
. . . thereby unlocking
the library’s full
potential enabled by .
..
Improve productivity
of Researcher and
Student:
• Most efficient and
effective search
• Access to most
comprehensive
content
Increased prestige,
ranking and funding
because you . . .
. . . and (c)
provides access
to the most
comprehensive
content . . .
. . . (b) offers
you the most
efficient and
effective
search . . .
. . . improve your
institutional
productivity . . .
. . . by
enabling the
management to
make better
decisions . . .
…because Scopus
(a) enables you to
evaluate
performance
and quality
accurately . . .
. . . and improving
student and
researcher
productivity . . .
Best evaluation of
performance and
quality:
• Broadest coverage
of peer-reviewed,
high quality journals
• Globally as well as
locally
• More accurate
citation count, fairer
recognition for work
Scopus has significantly more journals in its database than WoS
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WoS total: 11,419
Scopus total: 19,981
Unique WoS Joint titles:
titles: 896
10,523
Unique
Scopus titles:
9,458
Year 2010
Source: JISC Collections Academic Database
Scopus has a large article coverage per subject area
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Web of Science
Scopus versus WoS content coverage (number of journals)
Scopus
Engineering &
environmental Sciences
Physical, Chemical
and Earth Sciences
4000
6000
Mathematics, Information &
Communication Sciences
Biomedical &
Clinical Research
2500
7000
1250
3500
0
0
3000
4000
2000
2000
1000
0
0
Humanities &
creative arts
Social, Behavioural &
Economic Sciences
4000
Biological Sciences
and Biotechnology
Public and Health
Services
2000
5000
1000
2500
2000
1500
0
0
0
0
3000
a perfect global coverage
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Web of Science
Scopus versus WoS geographical coverage (number of journals)
Scopus
2,000
8,000
2,000
8,000
1,000
Less than 10% of
our nearest
competitor’s journals
come from outside
North America and
Western Europe
Scopus has more
than 20% of its
journals from
outside this region
4,000
1,000
4,000
0
0
0
0
500
600
300
250
300
150
0
0
Scopus covers “local” content for local audiences and for audiences who
want to know what is happening elsewhere
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Example: higher coverage of local journals from Croatia in Scopus
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78 active titles (total 104,
including 26 inactive titles)
January 2010 Figures
Journal Evaluation – some challenges:
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• I’m a publishing author in a niche area, how can I compare with
researchers in another scientific field?
• How can I get a value that reflects citation behaviour in my research
area?
• It’s 2010 – why can I only get a ranking relevant to 2008?
• Where can I find the data that have been used to generate this
number?
• The Impact Factor does not cover the journal I’m publishing in. What
now?
Summary:
Difficult to compare
Not recent enough
Lack of clarity of data origin
Lack of coverage
January 2010: 2 new journal metrics in Scopus - SJR and SNIP
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SJR - SCImago Journal Rank
SNIP - Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
Comparison
Recent
Data origin
Coverage
Normalization of differences between fields
Refreshed twice per year: April and
September
Eliminates risk of manipulation
All 19,000+ journals, proceedings and book
series in Scopus receive SJR and SNIP values
www.journalmetrics.com
Journal Analyzer in Scopus
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The Research Landscape is changing
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...Elsevier Is Changing
With You
 Solutions based on Scopus
 Supporting Research Management
Positioning Overview: SciVal Suite
Performance & Evaluation
AGGREGATION
Institution/Country
BUYER
USER
CUSTOMER CHALLENGES
PRIMARY
Office of Research
ADDRESSABLE
VC/President
PRIMARY
Spotlight
•What are my
interdisciplinary
strengths?
•Who are the high
performers in my
strategic priorities?
•How can I act upon
my competitive
advantage?
Researcher/Group
Strata
Dean
•Dean
•Dept. Head
•How are my
researchers performing
relative
to their peers?
•I want to evaluate
researchers with
the criteria that are
important to me.
Demonstration of Expertise Network
Institution
Showcase
•VC/President
•Library
•Researchers
•Students
•I want to
demonstrate my
institution’s research
expertise in the areas
that are of strategic
importance to us
Research Support
Researcher
Expert
Scopus-
Profiling
EP-VIVO
•VC/President
•Dir. Research
Admin.
•Dean
•Researchers
I need to find
researchers in other
disciplines that I can
collaborate with in my
institution (or within
the EP community)
Funding
VC/President
Dir. Research
Admin.
•Dir. Research
Admin.
•Researchers
•Researchers
•Research Admin
Staff
Dir. Research
Administration: I
need to easily
populate VIVO with
my researchers’
profiles
Researchers: I need
to find researchers
from other institutions
with whom I can
collaborate
•Find funding
opportunities
•Determine the right
funding strategy
•Increase success
rates
SciVerse
Scopus
Library
•Researchers
•What are the
most highly-cited
articles and
authors within a
research area?
•h-index of an author
•Overview of all
of an author or
institution’s
publications
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PRIMARY CUSTOMER GOAL(S) SUPPORTED BY THE SUITE
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Determining
research strategy
at the level where it counts: the
topics that researchers are focused
on, not the fields they're in
Spotlight
Funding
Strata
Showcase
Expert
Profiling
Reviewer
Finder
Scopus.com
Identifying
researchers with
certain expertise
for recruitment or collaboration
Assessing
productivity
and impact of researchers and their
output
Demonstrating
research
excellence
for the institution
Finding grants
that are matched to the right
research topic or researcher
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SciVal
Spotlight
WHAT IS SPOTLIGHT ?
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1. Definition:
• Spotlight is a web based solution to identify the
institutional research strengths. With the aim to assess
the institutional strategy of research management
• It is NOT an evaluation tool for authors or papers
2. What we define as a research strength
(competency)?
• Areas of research (multi- or single-discipline) where our
institution has a significant quantity of papers (from one
or more authors) published during the last 5 years
• So some highly cited authors may not be shown...
WHAT IS SPOTLIGHT ?
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3. How we define the areas of research?
• Not by: disciplines, key words or journals.
• By the CO-CITATION ANALYSIS and the yearly creation of the
map of science (Klavans & Boyack).
CO-CITATION ANALYSIS: BASED ON TWO ASSUMPTIONS
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1
2
Paper
Paper
1
2
Paper
1
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
A
B
A
B
Paper
3
Ref.
Ref.
Paper
Paper
A
B
Ref.
Ref.
Paper
Paper
A
B
A and B have a
Strength of relationship proportional
cognitive relationship
to frequency of the co-citation linkage
CO-CITATION ANALYSIS: BASED ON TWO ASSUMPTIONS
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4. What is the base of co-citation analysis?
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We group all the papers indexed in SCOPUS during the last 5
years in clusters (approx 90.000) based on their references.
We select the clusters in which our institution has a significant
number of papers (compared with the largest competitor world
wide - RAS).
We group the selected clusters in competencies based on the
references of the papers published by our institution
SAME CLUSTERS; DIFFERENT GROUPINGS = DISTINCTIVE
COMPETENCIES
Athena University’s map
Einstein University’s map
•DC 1 = clusters C, D & E
•DC 1 = cluster A
•EC 2 = cluster B
•EC 2 = clusters B, C & D
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SciVal Spotlight – Research Portfolio Analysis and Optimization
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 Identify Competencies and Market Strengths
 Attract Funding
 Spot Interdisciplinary Trends
 Strengthen Collaboration
 Improve Recruitment and Retention
 Use Funds More Strategically
Insight in global strengths
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
MATHS & PHYSICS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CHEMISTRY
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH AREAS
BRAIN RESEARCH
ENGINEERING
HEALTH SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
RESEARCH AREA
WITH GLOBAL STRENGTH (Competency)
BIOLOGY
MEDICINE
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BIOTECHNOLOGY
INFECTIOUS
DISEASE
Insight in global strengths
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A larger circle means a larger
market size (number of
publications) for this Distinctive
Competency
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH AREAS
Each circle represents a
Distinctive/Emerging
Competency
for your institution
Circles positioned towards
the middle indicate an
interdisciplinary mix
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VISUALIZATION - MATRIX
Question mark
Star
Dog
Cash cow
low
high
low
Market Growth
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Relative Market Share
Matrix from the Boston Consulting Group
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MATRIX VIEW: Distinctive competency performance relative to
your largest competitor
Find rapidly emerging areas of
research; potential areas for
further investment
Select a view to see in which
areas you are growing or
reducing market share
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The 2009 Spotlight
map of
University of Zagreb
General Statistics
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University of Zagreb
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127 (low level) competencies
University of Zagreb
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12 high level competencies
Clicking through from high level to low level
competencies
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Low level competencies within high level
competency Medical Specialties
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Clicking through to the details of DC1
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Looking at the details of DC1
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More details on DC1
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What are the top authors in DC1?
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Check the
metrics for the
most interesting
authors
What are the top authors in DC1 from University of
Zagreb?
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Click on an author, to get more details
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What are the top authors in DC1 collaborating with
University of Zagreb?
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Combining ‘’All authors’’ with ‘’Collaborating authors’’
leads to new potential collaborators
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What are the top institutions in DC1?
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Check the
metrics for the
most interesting
institutions
What are the top institutions in DC1 collaborating
with University of Zagreb?
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Combining ‘’All institutions’’ with ‘’Collaborating
institutions’’ leads to new potential collaborators
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Overview of all competencies
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Use Case
Reaching and
Maintaining
Leadership
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High Level Competency's map of 2009
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Reaching and maintaining leadership
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Reaching and maintaining leadership
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Details of EC 18. Quality indicators
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Institutions in EC18
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Authors in EC18
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Collaboration sheet – future functionality
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SciVal Spotlight – Summary
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 Identify Competencies and Market Strengths
 Attract Funding
 Spot Interdisciplinary Trends
 Strengthen Collaboration
 Improve Recruitment and Retention
 Use Funds More Strategically
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Thank you for your attention.
Questions?
Coen van der Krogt
c.krogt@elsevier.com
Tel: +31 6 3011 6125
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Backup slides
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1. Comparing
different years?
2008
MAP
2009
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Different position different
multidisciplinary mix.
Different position means
different strategic market
position.
General Statistics
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Comparing the years?
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The reasons comparison of maps year-to-year has some limitations, is because the
algorithm that drives Spotlight goes back to five years of prior articles as an analytic
window. When a new year map is created, roughly 20% of the articles (i.e. from 2004)
are dropped and a new full year of data (2009) is added. In future releases, we are
committed to making it easier to compare maps year-to-year by introducing time-series
analysis capabilities into Spotlight.
2. The 2009 Spotlight
map of
Ruder Boskovic
Institute
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Ruder Boskovic Institute
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36 (low level) competencies
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