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Snowball Metrics Recipe Book

Snowball Metrics are a set of metrics that help establish a reliable foundation for institutional strategic decision making. Defined and agreed by higher education institutions, and subsequently tested for ease of calculation for entire universities and across a variety of data sources, it is aspired that Snowball Metrics become global standards which cover the entire spectrum of research activities. The methodologies are freely available and can be generated independently of data source. Download this Recipe Book to access the initial set of Snowball Metrics and start generating them for your institution today.

Uploaded: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:35
Format: User Guides   Subject: Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance
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The Current Health and Future Well-Being of the American Research University

In an effort to understand the current U.S. research landscape, identify common challenges faced by leading research institutions and recommend and develop solutions, a community driven effort involving 29 of the nation’s top research universities was established in 2011-2012, with support from Elsevier.  The leadership of this group, the Research Universities Futures Consortium, conducted interviews with the Research Executives and their staffs at 25 universities of the Consortium and held a national workshop, which informed their study,  “The Current Health and Future Well-Being of the American Research University,” which was released in June 2012. Download the study and learn more about the Consortium’s key findings.

Uploaded: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:48
Format: Research Paper   Subject: Research Landscape Analysis, Research Management, Recruitment, Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Collaboration, Research Funding
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The Water and Food Nexus: Trends and Development of the Research Landscape

The report, 'The Water and Food Nexus: Trends and Development of the Research Landscape' analysed the major trends in water and food-related article output at international, national and institutional levels. Elsevier and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) worked closely together on creating the report, which is based on the analysis of Scopus citation data by Elsevier’s SciVal Analytics team. The aim of this report is to provide a transparent view of the water research landscape and the key players within the field, which is becoming more dynamic, complex and, in some places, fragmented. The report clearly shows that water research is growing in new places and becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, where collaboration is a key factor in producing high impact research.

Uploaded: Friday, August 24, 2012 - 11:12
Format: Analytics Report, Research Paper   Product: SciVal Analytics, SciVal Suite   Subject: Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance
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SciVal Strata Factsheet

In this two page factsheet, find out how SciVal Strata can help you measure researcher and team performance. Use SciVal Strata to create teams, real or speculative, based on any researcher globally and gauge their productivity using a number of customizable indicators to determine their potential for recruitment, retention and promotion decisions.

Uploaded: Friday, December 14, 2012 - 10:12
Format: Factsheets   Product: SciVal Strata   Subject: Recruitment, Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Collaboration
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Mapping Research Excellence: exploring the links between research excellence and research funding policy

The 1994 Group of leading UK research universities released a report warning that the UK is at risk of falling behind global competitors if the Government does not give continued support for university led research.

The report, done in partnership with Elsevier and utilizing amongst other things, SciVal Spotlight’s data, was unveiled at the 5th Annual Research Conference in London in September 2011.

Uploaded: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 13:25
Format: Research Paper   Product: SciVal Spotlight   Subject: Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Research Funding
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SciVal Suite Prospectus

A strong research management acumen requires the most accurate information when charting the strategies of an institution or agency. With today’s global research landscape in a constant state of flux, currency and awareness of advancements and emerging talent in the global scientific community is a challenge for many decision makers. Expending the time and resources to assemble and process the vast amount of data and information necessary to manage a research portfolio can be costly and ineffective.

Uploaded: Friday, February 18, 2011 - 16:25
Format: Brochures   Product: SciVal Suite   Subject: Asset Allocation, Research Management, Recruitment, Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Collaboration
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SciVal Perspectives - Verifying the Effectiveness of Existing Collaborations

Scientific collaborations come in the forms of co-authorships, consortia, co-locations, and alliances. This paper examines the effectiveness of one example of collaboration: an alliance of three Taiwanese institutions formed to capitalize on their collective research strengths to advance their respective positions within the global research community.

Uploaded: Monday, November 29, 2010 - 18:10
Format: White Papers   Product: SciVal Spotlight   Subject: Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Collaboration
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SciVal Perspectives - Identifying Organizational Inefficiencies in Research Institutions

In today’s lean times, academic and government decision-makers continually face challenges to efficiently and effectively organize their research organizations and conduct research activities.

Using SciVal Spotlight to analyze the research projects of 106 life science researchers within an elite Japanese research center, decision-makers could clarify structural and resource issues in both their established and newly created research centers and, hopefully, use the results to initiate constructive changes and improve overall organizational efficiencies.

Uploaded: Friday, May 28, 2010 - 13:31
Format: White Papers   Product: SciVal Spotlight   Subject: Research Management, Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance
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White Paper - Co-Citation Analysis: The Methodology of SciVal Spotlight

Despite the fact that many journals are progressively covering a wider array of disciplines and paradigms, to date, research output has only been evaluated based on the classification of the journal in which it is published - leaving critical interdisciplinary research often overlooked and unaccounted for.

In this paper, you will learn about how SciVal Spotlight uses co-citation analysis to overcome this knowledge gap and provide a broader and deeper view of research performance.

Uploaded: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 23:39
Format: White Papers   Product: SciVal Spotlight   Subject: Research Management, Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance, Collaboration
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White Paper - New Research Landscapes: New Tools for Driving Success

With research in the University sector balancing on the knife edge of globalization. Research now crosses disciplines and national boundaries. Government and funding agencies demand public good and economic returns on their research investments. As the research landscape evolves, so do the tools that Research Executives and Managers require to evaluate research performance as well as make informed strategic decisions.

Uploaded: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 23:44
Format: White Papers   Product: SciVal Suite   Subject: Evaluating Performance, Measuring Research Performance
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