The SciVal analytical platform is a resource designed to help researchers track and analyse information. In addition, it is used by advanced scientific institutions to predict scientometric trends and improve key indicators. The platform contains 4 modules and 7 levels of analysis.
SciVal Modules
Platform modules are available immediately after registration. Depending on the user's requests, there are such tools:
- Overview – an overview using which users can track the main parameters of the activity of a scientist or a group of researchers, a journal, a country, etc.
- Benchmarking – a comparison module. It not only allows tracking information but also comparing it with other indicators. For example, scientometric characteristics of the two countries, etc.
- Collaboration – the tool allows identifying major trends in scientific cooperation, including international cooperation. The analysis is carried out based on both real and potential collaboration.
- Reporting – this module allows creating reports based on data from other modules.
Platform Analysis Levels
Levels of analysis are provided based on the main types of research objects:
- Organisations – the platform analyses data from over 19,000 research organisations. Their indicators are available to be reviewed both individually and as a group. Moreover, the grouping can be done by the user.
- Authors – the scientometric indicators of authors registered in the Scopus database are analysed.
- Publications – the analysis of publications is based on the Publication Set. It is formed by the user according to their research interests.
- Countries – it is possible to analyse the scientific activities of 230 countries or their groups. The grouping of countries is also done by the user.
- Thematic areas – analysis of 1,500 thematic clusters and 96,000 topics.
- Subject area – the study of the Research Area based on the topic and scientific interests of the researcher.
- Journals – research of scientometric indicators of journals. This is very relevant when selecting a publication to publish or track the activities of publications of interest.
SciVal metrics
Let us look at the main SciVal metrics using the country as an example:
Overview Module
1 – the study period. The user can select the period for which the search is provided. However, it is worth noting that certain years are not available for some metrics.
2 – subject area. General search or search by a particular subject area.
3 – the search for "ASJC (All Science Journal Classification)" is used, but indicators for other classifiers can be selected. For example, THE (Times higher education classification), FORD (Fields of research and development classification), etc.
4 – filter panel. The user can view relevant information about authors, subjects, etc.
5 – basic parameters. The number of authors, the number of scientific materials, the number of citations, the citation rate per publication, etc.
6 – subject areas. Publications by subject area and data representation.
7 – report preparation. The user can add the displayed data to the report.
Benchmarking Module
8 – the selection of an indicator based on all metrics or metrics for a particular rating.
9 – the selection of the format of information representation (table or graph).
10 – setting the graph axes.
Collaboration Module
11 – the selection of cooperation parameters (by country, university, author, region).
12 – the intensity of cooperation (number of co-authored works).
Reporting Module
13 – the selection of parameters for reporting.
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