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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.

Learn more here:

• Create SciVal Reports for Georgia Southern University
• Create SciVal Reports for Your College, Department, or Yourself
• Use SciVal for Research

Create SciVal Reports for Georgia Southern University

To create reports that include all authors and publications past and present affiliated with Georgia Southern, follow these steps:

1. Open and log into SciVal.
2. On the homepage, click Your Home Institution.
3. You will be redirected to SciVal's overview page for Georgia Southern's institution ID (508073). This page includes all authors and publications past and present affiliated with Georgia Southern University, regardless of whether they currently appear in GS Scholars. 
4. To create a report, click Create report and follow the prompts. For more about creating reports, see below.

To create reports that include only authors who currently appear in GS Scholars, follow these steps:

1. Open and log into SciVal.
2. On any page that includes the  button, click Entity List.
3. Click the  tab in the Entity list.
4. Search for Georgia Southern University, then click Georgia Southern University in the Entity list.
5. You will be redirected to SciVal's overview page for Georgia Southern University entity imported from GS Scholars. This page includes only authors currently appearing in GS Scholars.
6. To create a report, click Create report and follow the prompts. For more about creating reports, see below.

Create SciVal Reports for Your College, Department, or Yourself

To create reports for your college, department, or yourself, either use a college, department, or researcher entity imported from GS Scholars, or create your own entity. To use an entity imported from GS Scholars, follow these steps:

1. Open and log into SciVal.
2. On any page that includes the button, click Entity List.
3. Click the tab in the Entity list.
4. Search for the college, department, or researcher entity, then click on it.
5. You will be redirected to SciVal's overview page for the entity imported from GS Scholars.
6. To create a report for the entity, click Create report and follow the prompts. For more about creating reports, see below.

To create your own college, department, or researcher entities, see the instructions under Define, add, or remove entities here. 

Use SciVal for Research

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

For help, contact the GS Commons Team at digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu. A team member will respond as soon as possible during regular business hours.