1. SciVal to support building a research strategy
Coen van der Krogt
Regional Director Research Intelligence, Elsevier
Warsaw, July 10, 2018

2. Agenda 1 Developments taking place in Poland 2
The different Rankings Elsevier is supporting 3
Importance of International Collaboration 4
SciVal to support:
A. Reviewing Collaborators
B. Reviewing the institution’s Publication Portfolio
C. Analyzing Strengths and Weaknesses
D. Setting up a Research Strategy

3. 1. Developments taking place in Poland

4. Developments taking place in Poland
New Assessment methodology / process almost ready
More focus on quality / publishing in high quality (international) journals
Institution to be assessed versus faculties
Changes in funding distribution
New Program for Research universities
Benchmarking and specialization
Additional funds available
Increasing interest and ambitions in Rankings
National Perspektywy Ranking
International Ranking - THE / QS / Other
Poland claiming the leading role in Central European Research?
And … Ministry financing / providing tools to support the process
InCites / SciVal, based on WoS / Scopus
Analyze Strengths & Weaknesses
Pro-actively work on improvements

5. Elsevier’s support for the process
Providing access to SciVal since beginning of 2018
Intensive rollout and training program
Several webinars
Onsite workshops/trainings in 6 major cities and more
Academy / Certification Program – train the trainer
Institutional support to improve visibility in Scopus
Collaborated with several institutions
Affiliations merging, affiliations hierarchy, and so on
Also important for Rankings
IPW – Institution Profile Wizard in Scopus
Institutions can easily maintain Scopus themselves (available mid July)
If some extra help needed, we can still support
And … Requests for additional support:
How to improve in the Rankings?
How to set up a Research Strategy?

6. 2. The different Rankings Elsevier is supporting

7. Bibliometric data providers vs. ranking agencies
unique to Scopus / SciVal
shared with WoS/Clarivate
Change out SJTU logo

8. Citations (normalized for subject area) received in Scopus in period , on publications
% papers with at least 1 international co-author, normalized for subject mix, based on Scopus publications in the period
# papers published in Scopus per scholar, scaled for institutional size and normalized for subject

9. THE – CE countries Top 1000 institutions
Seeing the size of the country, the number of institutions, the research capacity and the growing awareness and ambitions, Poland should easily be able to take the leading position in CE - if executed well
Identification and additional support/funding for 20 Research universities in Poland?
Active use of tools like SciVal?

10. 3. Importance of International Collaboration

11. FWCI vs. International Collaboration
What we observe: A higher position on the Ranking, requires higher impact/citations, which will lead to higher FWCI. To get higher impact / FWCI you need more International Collaboration - which increases quality and engagement with more international communities for citation potential
Estonia
Hungary
Czech
Romania
The question is:
With whom to best collaborate?
How attractive is your institution for collaboration?
FWCI (Field Weighted Citation Impact): generally accepted way to measure impact
It normalizes the number of citations per publication, per publication year, subject category and document type
>1 is above world average

12. University of Warsaw – Assessing performance

13. University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

14. 4A. SciVal to support
Reviewing Collaborators

15. University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

16. University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

17. 4B. SciVal to support
Reviewing the institution’s Publication Portfolio

18. Reviewing the Publication portfolio

19. Reviewing the Publication portfolio

20. 4C. SciVal to support
Analyzing Strengths and Weaknesses

21. Analyzing Strengths & Weaknesses - Impact

23. 4D. SciVal to support
Setting up a Research Strategy

24. “Topics’’ and their characteristics
A topic is a collection of documents with a common intellectual interest
Topics can be large or small, new or old, growing or declining
Topics are dynamic and can evolve
New topics can be born
Many topics are inherently multidisciplinary
Old topics may be dormant, but still exist
Researchers have mobility and can contribute to multiple topics
Based on Scopus data, around 100K Topics have been identified

25. New indicator: Topic prominence
Prominence combines 3 metrics to indicate the momentum of the topic
Citation Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1 
Scopus Views Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1
Average CiteScore for year n
Why call it “Prominence”
Prominence ≠ Importance (Topics can be important but not prominent)
Prominence ~ Visibility
Prominent Topics provide an indication of an institution’s Strengths in a (very) specific area of research, that has good global visibility
Quite good correlation has been found between Topic Prominence and available Funding for a Topic
->>Possible input for the Research Strategy

26. Analyzing Topics of Prominence

27. Analyzing Topics of Prominence

28. Analyzing Topics of Prominence

29. Analyzing Topics of Prominence - Institutions

30. Analyzing Topics of Prominence - Authors

31. Thank you
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