Using SciVal can help you to evaluate the research performance of individuals and institutions worldwide.

1. The UK’s European university
Introducing
SciValEvaluate research performance worldwide

2. What is SciVal?
A research assessment tool that holds data
on citations and publishing collaborations.
•Data on individuals, institutions, countries
and research areas
•Worldwide (4600 institutions in 220
countries)
•Huge range (over 30 million publications
from 1996 to the present)
•Data comes from Scopus and ScienceDirect
(SciVal’s metrics are more advanced than
Scopus, and the interface is easier to use)

3. Who is it
useful for?
•Academics
•Research Support staff
•Staff working to support partnerships

4. What can you do
with SciVal?
•Easily see research performance in
charts and reports
•Compare the research performance of
individuals and institutions
•Gather statistics for funding bids and
publicity
•Find opportunities for collaboration
•Analyse research trends
•Find who’s researching in specific areas

5. A closer look at
SciVal features

6. Metrics
SciVal uses a wide range of industry-accepted and
easy-to-interpret metrics including Snowball
Metrics (a global standard in Higher Education).
You can use these to measure information such as
•productivity
•citation impact
•collaboration
for researchers, institutions, countries,
publication sets and research areas.

7. Visualise research
performance
•Access research
performance summaries of
any research entities
•Identify their unique
strengths and research areas
•Retrieve at-a-glance,
standardised reports
instantly
•Access competency maps for
all institutions and countries

8. Benchmark your
progress
•Compare performance of
institutions, countries, and
groups, or create your own
research areas and monitor
progress over time
•Perform in-depth analyses by
selecting a combination of
subject areas and metrics
•Identify relative strengths and
weaknesses to optimise your
strategy

9. Develop
partnerships
•Identify and analyse
collaboration based on
publication output and citation
impact
•Explore your institution’s
current and prospective
partnerships on Google maps
•Identify your top collaborative
institutions and co-authorship
by drilling into specific subject
areas and research topics

10. We’ll
support you
•How to create an account and log in:
www.kent.ac.uk/library/research/sci
val
•Technical help and training:
eresources@kent.ac.uk
•For support at every stage of the
research cycle:
researchsupport@kent.ac.uk

11. Credits
Information and screenshots from
www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/resource-
library/scival-new-generation-factsheet
(you can find more information there too)

12. THE UK’S
EUROPEAN
UNIVERSITY
www.kent.ac.uk