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Scopus
Scopus is an extensive abstract and citation database covering a wide range of scientific disciplines. It includes peer-reviewed literature from journals, conference proceedings, and patents. Scopus provides researchers, academics, and institutions with access to a vast collection of scholarly literature, allowing them to search, track, and analyze research outputs. It offers advanced search capabilities, citation analysis tools, and metrics like the h-index to evaluate individual researchers or institutions' impact and productivity.
Scopus Tutorials
Get started using Scopus with these tutorials from Elsevier:
- Searching for documents
- Working with author information
- Working with metrics
- Searching and working with organizations
SciVal
SciVal is a research performance analysis tool developed by Elsevier, leveraging data from Scopus. It helps researchers and institutions assess their research performance, benchmark against peers, identify collaboration opportunities, and track trends in research output and impact. SciVal offers visualizations, customizable reports, and metrics tailored to specific research domains, aiding strategic decision-making and resource allocation in academia and research institutions. Together, Scopus and SciVal empower the research community with comprehensive data-driven insights to advance scientific knowledge and innovation.
SciVal Tutorials
Get started using SciVal with these tutorials from Elsevier:
- Introduction to SciVal - Build your views on global research
- Overview module - Visualize research performance
- Benchmarking module - Benchmark and monitor progress
- Collaboration module - Identify and evaluate existing and potential collaboration partners
- Trends module - Analyze research trends
- Impact module - demonstrate your broader research impact
- Conduct a portfolio analysis using Topic Prominence in Science
- Working with entities - Choose from thousands of pre-defined entities or define your own
- Define Researchers and Groups - Analyze Researchers of interest
- Create and import departmental or institution hierarchies - View metrics on your schools and faculty
- Define your own Research Areas - Analyze any field of interest to you
- Defining Publication Sets - Create bespoke pub sets from 1 to 200,000 publications
- Reporting in SciVal - Create your own rich reports within SciVal or use templates
- My SciVal - Manage your entities, add tags and share
- Metrics in SciVal - Learn about their strengths and weaknesses
- Data and Metrics - Browse the FAQs on the data and metrics in SciVal
- Release information - Learn about the latest release features
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