STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of new metrics to help measure the economic impact of research within SciVal, Elsevier's tool to analyze and benchmark the world of research, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of tools and services.
The new indicators are aligned with SciVal's mission to provide a wide range of metrics to analyse and evaluate different aspects of research. With funding bodies and evaluation exercises, such as the UK's Research Excellence Framework, putting researchers under increasing pressure to demonstrate the impact of their research, these new metrics help provide that evidence. The release brings patent-article citations to SciVal along with the inclusion of publication views data from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, throughout the tool.
Patent-article citations from five of the world's largest patent offices will help provide a proxy for innovation and the potential with which the knowledge from that research can be transferred to industry.
The inclusion of Scopus views data provides additional insights into the activities of 'non-publishing researchers,' a group that makes up approximately one-third of all researchers. These researchers do not cite articles, so usage metrics provide valuable insights into the research behaviour of an impactful group of researchers that may otherwise remain 'hidden.'
The product team has enlisted the help from a number of SciVal customers from around the world to beta test the new metrics in this release.
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