STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands,
has announced the launch of SciVal Spotlight,
a customised web-based tool that offers institutions a
multidisciplinary perspective of research performance to evaluate,
establish and execute more informed research strategies.
SciVal Spotlight uses a visualisation technique to produce
customised maps that provide graphical views of an institution's performance
over time and across scientific fields,
focusing on specific topical areas. By pinpointing a university's topical
strengths and identifying leading researchers and
institutions in each area, the tool is designed to help
academic decision-makers optimise funding allocations and enhance
hiring and collaboration decisions.
Quantifying the overall size of each topical area, the tool allows
institutions to understand the significance of their article and
market shares and how they rank compared to competitors in those areas.
It also assesses article and market growth or decline over the last five years,
offering an average rate for each using a two year sliding scale. Additionally, it
determines if an institution's work is building upon the most recent discoveries;
providing a 'state of the art quotient' by analysing how recent the
citations are within its published output.
SciVal Spotlight is based on a detailed model of the current structure of science.
The model, covering virtually all of the research being published across the globe,
was developed using co-citation analysis of a comprehensive database that includes
6.1 million separate papers published between 2004 and 2008, and another
two million of the highly-cited references from these papers.
Leveraging this new model of science, SciVal Spotlight
identifies and focuses on the inter-related work being done within an
institution which represents the topical areas or 'distinctive competencies' in
which it is a leader. It also offers an opportunity to better understand which
institutions are true competitors by revealing those that compete
within the same research competencies.
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