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SciVal Frequently Asked Questions
What is the SciVal® suite?
Designed to support the many stages of the research planning cycle, the SciVal suite of tools and services provides critical information about performance and expertise to help enable informed decision-making and drive successful outcomes. Whether your institution is conducting research or funding it, SciVal makes data about performance, planning, and funding more visible and accessible.
What is the SciVal Analytics Unit?
The SciVal Analytics Unit is a group of consultative professionals who provide analytical reports and services for the specific needs of decision makers within research and government institutions. We offer standardized reports that apply commonly used bibliometric analyses, or we can work with you to develop a report that is tailored to your specific needs. Our analytics reports and services can make use of data from Scopus®, SciVal solutions, and data of your own.
What is SciVal Experts?
SciVal Experts is an expertise profiling and research networking tool that makes it easy for researchers, administrators, managers and senior leadership to find experts and enable collaboration within their institution and across organizations. Powered by the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine, SciVal Experts scans and analyzes every publication in the Scopus® database, creating visual semantic indexes, or Fingerprints, of individual researcher's expertise and exposing connections among authors.
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What is SciVal Funding?
SciVal Funding supports researchers and research administrators in the pre-award stage of the funding process. The solution delivers quick and comprehensive access to current funding opportunities and award information, allowing users to:
- Find the right funding opportunities
- Analyze the funding environment
- Maximize award chances
What is SciVal Spotlight?
SciVal Spotlight provides an interdisciplinary view of an institution’s research leadership. Based on co-citation analysis of Scopus data and an innovative visualization technique, SciVal Spotlight produces unique graphical views of an institution’s research performance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Rather than show individual subject areas, SciVal Spotlight creates a map that illustrates research performance across scientific fields. In addition, the results can be compared with those of top competing institutions.
What is SciVal Strata?
A research performance visualization tool, SciVal Strata helps institutional and departmental leadership understand and test how best to put their organization’s strategy in place, and how to demonstrate the value that they or their teams represent to that strategy. SciVal Strata helps users make informed decisions regarding recruitment, retention and promotion.
What is Overlap Check?
Overlap Check is a solution for funding agencies that compares incoming applications against your portfolio and the portfolios of other agencies, helping you identify applications that closely resemble already funded and unfunded projects.
What is Portfolio Analysis?
Portfolio Analysis helps funding agencies gain insight into the most essential yet most challenging information to track – the spending and performance of the projects within their and other funders’ portfolios. Portfolio Analysis helps funding agencies identify what they have funded and what they should fund next.
What is Reviewer Finder?
Reviewer Finder helps funding agencies identify reviewers in minutes – not hours. Find the right reviewers, identify potential conflicts of interest and expand your reviewer network by inviting researchers to review applications that are relevant to them.
What is the SciVerse® platform?
Elsevier's SciVerse platform supports researchers and librarians in improving their search and discovery process by providing integrated, trusted content from SciVerse® ScienceDirect®, the world’s leading source for peer-reviewed full-text literature; SciVerse® Scopus®, the largest abstract and citation database; and the scientific web alongside community-developed applications. Users can search across the platform via SciVerse® Hub, which provides deduplicated results.
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