STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has added a new enhancement to SciVal Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct highly customised performance assessments of research teams and individual researchers.
The new functionality provides the capacity for objective assessment of a specific selection of a researcher's work in addition to their complete publication output. This option is critical when selecting the most impactful papers to be submitted for various government or institutional assessments. In addition the enhanced functionality will prove useful to individuals applying for grants and showing funders the impact of the research they supported.
SciVal Strata is a flexible benchmarking tool providing multi-tier analysis of team and researcher performance such as productivity, citation history, and collaboration activity. The added functionality was developed in global collaboration with users and with Elsevier's online community of research administrators.
The new functionality to SciVal Strata will help administrators and researchers apply for funding by demonstrating the value of research carried out to the supporting funding source; secure tenure in the US through the evaluation of four hand-selected papers; submit four papers per researcher for the UK's Research Excellence Framework national assessment exercise; and assess researchers based upon a selection of their work connected to a specific institution.
