The Overview module provides a high-level overview of your institution's research performance based on publications, citations, and collaboration. You can also:

• Review the performance of any of the 20,000+ institutions and 230+ countries and regions in our database;
• Define your own Research Areas, Publication Sets, and groups of Researchers and Institutions, and review their performance;
• Filter data by a subject area and export it;
• Review the underlying list of publications behind every publication count.

How

Select a topic below to view more information about the Overview module:

Set up the Overview module

Selecting an entity

Use the entity selection panel on the left-hand side to select the entity you want to view.

1. Go to the section in the left panel that contains the entity you want, e.g. 'Institutions and Groups' for an institution.
2. If the entity you want is not listed, click 'Add' and start typing the name, then click on the name when it appears in the search results.
3. You can also define your own groups of researchers, publication sets and research areas. The entity selection panel on the left-hand side to select the entity you want to view.

Selecting a year range

You can view publication data for a period of either three or five years. To select the desired year range, click the date range at the top of the page under the institution's name.

Optionally, you can also include the current year and future publications. However, you may want to exclude this because, by the end of the current year, Scopus has only received and indexed a certain portion of the current year's Scopus sources from other publishers.

Filtering by subject area

Interested in evaluating or comparing your performance within a specific discipline? Choose from 27 categories and 334 subcategories in the Scopus subject classification. Or use a different subject classification.

1. Use the filter dropdown menu at the top of the page to select a specific subject area.
   
2. The subcategories appear when you click on the arrow in a category.
3. After your select a subject area, all data shown in SciVal will be filtered by that category. That is to say, the data will be limited to publications in Scopus sources within that category.
4. Select 'no filter selected' from the menu to remove the filter and show all data.

Using the Overview module

Get an overview of your institution's research performance

You can get an overview of your institution's research performance in terms of publications and citations, and answer questions such as:

• Who are the most prolific or most cited authors at my institution?
• In which disciplines is my institution most active?
• What are the most cited publications of my institution?
• Who are the top collaboration partners of my institution?
• What is my institution's publication profile across the journal percentiles
• How much has my institution's research been viewed over time?

To view your institution in Overview:

1. Go to the Overview module and make sure your institution is selected in the entity selection panel on the left-hand side.
2. Select the year range you want from the first dropdown menu at the top of the page.
3. Do you want to view your institution's research performance within a specific subject area (such as chemistry or engineering)? Then select a subject area from the second dropdown menu at the top of the page.
   
4. Click the tabs to get an overview of your institution's research performance across the various dimensions.

Explore the publication output of your institution

You can see the total list of publications at your institution by clicking 'View list of publications' on the Summary tab. The most cited publications are at the top.

• The filter options on the left-hand side allow you to explore your institution's publications in various ways. For example, you can see the top authors and Scopus sources, the top collaborating institutions and countries, and the top keywords.
• Try filtering the publications by any of the filter options. The breakdown is now recalculated to reflect the new subset.

Get an overview of your institution's research strengths with Topics and Topic Clusters

We have expanded SciVal from being a purely evaluative and analytical tool to being an integral part of your research planning process. Topic Prominence in Science will revolutionize the way in which you develop your research strategy by giving you and your colleagues unique insight into identifying new, emerging research trends.

You can run a complete portfolio analysis to see which Topics and Topic Clusters your institution is currently active in, which have high momentum, and are those therefore more likely to be well-funded. They provide insights into which researchers are active in those Topics, which Topics your peers and competitors are active in and the related Topics of which you should be aware.

Topics are ranked by Prominence, an indicator of the momentum of a particular field.

The development of Topic Prominence in Science is based upon extensive research and customer feedback. Unlike other research analytics solutions, which merely scratch the surface by only analyzing top-cited articles, we take the entire world of research into account. Our ground-breaking, new technology takes into consideration 95% of the articles available in Scopus and clusters them into nearly 96,000 global, unique research topics based on citation patterns.

How can I use Topic Prominence in Science?

For Research Managers, who are trying to stay abreast of the latest research trends, Topic Prominence in Science can help answer the following:

• What are the pockets of well-funded research in our current research portfolio?
• Who are the top performing researchers and upcoming talent active in those particular research Topics?
• How can we show that our institution is particularly active and leading the way in a research field, which has a lot of momentum?
• Which forward-momentum Topics are our peers and competitors currently active in?

As a Researcher, Topic Prominence in Science provides you with a much clearer picture of your overall research performance, and insight into the momentum or level of activity of particular Topics. We can help you answer your most pressing research related questions:

• Which are the Topics with high momentum, that are likely to be well-funded and thus have higher grant success rates?
• Who else is active and publishing research in a similar Topic to mine, whom I could partner and co-author with?
• What are some related Topics adjacent to mine with a lot of momentum, where I could focus my research attention?

The Topic Prominence in Science wheel provides a clear and simple overview of the Topics in which your institution is the most active.

All Scopus publications are clustered into Topics using direct citation analysis (as opposed to co-citation analysis).

Learn more about Topics and Topic Clusters

Get an overview of collaboration by your institution

The Overview module also shows the top external collaboration partners of your institution, and how much your institution is collaborating (including international collaboration). Collaboration is measured in terms of co-authored publications.

• The filter options on the left-hand side allow you to explore your institution's publications in various ways. For example, you can see the top authors and Scopus sources, the top collaborating institutions and countries, and the top keywords.
• Go to the Collaboration module for a much more detailed view of external collaboration at your institution.

Evaluate the performance of a researcher or research team

SciVal lets you define and evaluate individual researchers as well as groups of researchers.

Groups of researchers can be research teams at your institution, but also larger units such as institutes, departments, and faculties. You can even define fictional researcher groups. For example, you can simulate what would happen when you add a top researcher from another institution to an existing research team at your institution.

To define and view a researcher:

1. Go to My SciVal and click 'Define a new Researcher'.
2. Now go to Overview and select your new researcher.
3. You can now evaluate the research performance of this researcher. You can also see the collaborating institutions and co-authors of this researcher.

To define and view a group of researchers:

1. Go to My SciVal and click 'Define a new Researcher' to define the individual researchers that will make up your group.
2. Click 'Define a new Group of Researchers' to define the group.
3. Now go to 'Overview' and select your new group.
4. You can now evaluate the research performance and collaboration of this group.

If different units of your institution have been predefined in SciVal as groups of researchers, select one of these group of researchers in Overview and go to the Collaboration tab. You can now see how much internal collaboration is taking place within the group, and how much collaboration with other groups within the same parent group, for example other departments within the same faculty.

Investigate other institutions

In Overview, you are not limited to your own institution, but you can view the research performance of any other institution. You can, for instance, find out:

• In which journal percentiles are the world's top institutions publishing the most?
• Who are the most prolific authors within the selected institution?
• Would this institution be a suitable collaboration partner for my own institution?
• Who are the other collaboration partners of my institution's collaboration partners?

Use the entity selection panel on the left-hand side to select the institution you want to view.

1. Open the 'Institutions and Groups' section in the entity selection panel.
2. If the institution you want is not listed, click the 'Add Institutions and Groups' link and start typing the name, then click on the name when it appears in the search results.

See your institution's national or global position

How is your institution positioned? What is your institution's position, nationwide or worldwide, in terms of publication output or impact?

1. Select your country from the entity selection panel on the left-hand side.
2. If the country is not listed, click 'Add Countries and Groups' and start typing the name, then click on the name when it appears in the search results.
3. The 'Institution tab' ranks all the institutions in your country by number of publications, citations, or authors. You can see who the top institutions in your country are, and how your institution ranks among them.
   
4. View your institution's national position by publication output or impact

You can view and compare the citation impact of each institution by selecting 'Citations per Publication' or 'Field-Weighted Citation Impact' from the drop-down menu.

You can also get a picture of what is happening worldwide:

1. Select 'World' from the 'Countries and groups' sections of the entity selection panel.
2. The Institutions tab ranks lists all institutions worldwide, sorted by productivity

Identify potential collaboration partners

The Institutions and Authors tabs for a country can also be used to identify potential collaboration partners - both institutions and individual researchers.

Say you are looking for collaboration partners in the United States within the field of chemistry:

1. Select 'United States' in the entity selection panel.
2. Select 'Chemistry' from the dropdown menu at the top of the page.
3. Go the 'Institutions and Authors' tabs to find out who the key players in that country are.
   
4. For more details on any of the institutions in this list (such as the top authors at that institution or how much it is collaborating internationally), select it from the entity selection panel.
5. To identify key players worldwide, select 'the World' in the entity selection panel. You can also view the top institutions and authors in a group of countries (like the European Union, South America or BRICS) or in a group of institutions (like the Russell Group).

See your institution's performance in a specific research area

SciVal allows you to define a specific field of research. They can for instance represent a strategic priority of your institution or an emerging area of science. Unlike the fixed, broad categories of the Scopus Subject Classification, these research areas can be as granular or interdisciplinary as you like.

Once you have defined a research area, you can:

• See how your institution is performing in that field
• Spot national and international trends
• Identify collaboration partners

Say that you are interested in how much research is happening at your institution on neuroinformatics within the field of computer science.

1. Click on 'Add Research Areas', then 'Define a new Research Area' in the entity selection panel on the left-hand side of the Overview module.
2. Define your Research Area using the search term 'neuroinformatics'.
3. Narrow down your definition by limiting it to publications in computer science sources only.
4. You can now select and view the research area in the Overview module.

You can define a whole series of research areas, for instance a list of strategic goals of your institution, and see how your institution is performing in all of these.

1. Define your research areas.
2. Go to 'Overview' and select your institution from the entity selection panel on the left-hand side.
3. The 'Publications by Research Area' section under the Publications tab gives you an overview of your institution's performance in each of the research areas you have defined.

See your institution's performance in a specific publication set

SciVal gives you the flexibility to define and evaluate your own Publication Sets in the Overview module. Here you can dive deeper to see the productivity and impact of the authors, institutions and countries that have contributed to them and the impact they have.

A Publication Set is a fixed set of publications which you can create either by using a subset of a researcher's career (e.g. most cited publications) or by selecting publications on a particular topic.

To define and view a Publication set:

• Go to the Overview module and click 'Publications Sets'.
• Click 'Add Publication Sets'.
• Select a researcher from the list.
• Select the desired publications of the researcher and save it.
• You can now evaluate the research performance of this Publication Set.

Similarly to other entity types, you can get an instant view of the output of the Publication Set in the Overview module. For example, you can find out to what extend the publications are present in the top 10% most cited publications worldwide. In addition, you can further analyze the Publication Set based on citations, collaboration, authors, and institutions.