SciVal to support building a research strategy Coen van der Krogt Regional Director Research Intelligence, Elsevier Warsaw, July 10, 2018

Agenda 1 Developments taking place in Poland 2 The different Rankings Elsevier is supporting 3 Importance of International Collaboration 4 SciVal to support: A. Reviewing Collaborators B. Reviewing the institution’s Publication Portfolio C. Analyzing Strengths and Weaknesses D. Setting up a Research Strategy

1. Developments taking place in Poland

Developments taking place in Poland New Assessment methodology / process almost ready More focus on quality / publishing in high quality (international) journals Institution to be assessed versus faculties Changes in funding distribution New Program for Research universities Benchmarking and specialization Additional funds available Increasing interest and ambitions in Rankings National Perspektywy Ranking International Ranking - THE / QS / Other Poland claiming the leading role in Central European Research? And … Ministry financing / providing tools to support the process InCites / SciVal, based on WoS / Scopus Analyze Strengths & Weaknesses Pro-actively work on improvements

Elsevier’s support for the process Providing access to SciVal since beginning of 2018 Intensive rollout and training program Several webinars Onsite workshops/trainings in 6 major cities and more Academy / Certification Program – train the trainer Institutional support to improve visibility in Scopus Collaborated with several institutions Affiliations merging, affiliations hierarchy, and so on Also important for Rankings IPW – Institution Profile Wizard in Scopus Institutions can easily maintain Scopus themselves (available mid July) If some extra help needed, we can still support And … Requests for additional support: How to improve in the Rankings? How to set up a Research Strategy?

2. The different Rankings Elsevier is supporting

Bibliometric data providers vs. ranking agencies unique to Scopus / SciVal shared with WoS/Clarivate Change out SJTU logo

Citations (normalized for subject area) received in Scopus in period 2012-2017, on 2012-2016 publications % papers with at least 1 international co-author, normalized for subject mix, based on Scopus publications in the period 2012-2016 # papers published in Scopus per scholar, scaled for institutional size and normalized for subject

THE – CE countries Top 1000 institutions Seeing the size of the country, the number of institutions, the research capacity and the growing awareness and ambitions, Poland should easily be able to take the leading position in CE - if executed well Identification and additional support/funding for 20 Research universities in Poland? Active use of tools like SciVal?

3. Importance of International Collaboration

FWCI vs. International Collaboration What we observe: A higher position on the Ranking, requires higher impact/citations, which will lead to higher FWCI. To get higher impact / FWCI you need more International Collaboration - which increases quality and engagement with more international communities for citation potential Estonia Hungary Czech Romania The question is: With whom to best collaborate? How attractive is your institution for collaboration? FWCI (Field Weighted Citation Impact): generally accepted way to measure impact It normalizes the number of citations per publication, per publication year, subject category and document type >1 is above world average

University of Warsaw – Assessing performance

University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

4A. SciVal to support Reviewing Collaborators

University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

University of Warsaw – Assessing collaboration

4B. SciVal to support Reviewing the institution’s Publication Portfolio

Reviewing the Publication portfolio

Reviewing the Publication portfolio

4C. SciVal to support Analyzing Strengths and Weaknesses

Analyzing Strengths & Weaknesses - Impact

4D. SciVal to support Setting up a Research Strategy

“Topics’’ and their characteristics A topic is a collection of documents with a common intellectual interest Topics can be large or small, new or old, growing or declining Topics are dynamic and can evolve New topics can be born Many topics are inherently multidisciplinary Old topics may be dormant, but still exist Researchers have mobility and can contribute to multiple topics Based on Scopus data, around 100K Topics have been identified

New indicator: Topic prominence Prominence combines 3 metrics to indicate the momentum of the topic Citation Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1  Scopus Views Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1 Average CiteScore for year n Why call it “Prominence” Prominence ≠ Importance (Topics can be important but not prominent) Prominence ~ Visibility Prominent Topics provide an indication of an institution’s Strengths in a (very) specific area of research, that has good global visibility Quite good correlation has been found between Topic Prominence and available Funding for a Topic ->>Possible input for the Research Strategy

Analyzing Topics of Prominence

Analyzing Topics of Prominence

Analyzing Topics of Prominence

Analyzing Topics of Prominence - Institutions

Analyzing Topics of Prominence - Authors

Thank you For additional questions: c.krogt@elsevier.com