Conduct a portfolio Topic analysis

A Topic is a collection of documents with a common focused intellectual interest. There are 95,000 Topics in SciVal and they are often multidisciplinary.

See which Topics your institution is currently active in, and which Topics have high momentum – and are therefore more likely to be well-funded. Gain insights into which researchers are active in specific Topics, which Topics your peers and competitors are active in, and any related Topics you should explore.

1. Starting from anywhere in Explore, open the entity panel and select an Institution
2. Go to the Topics page to see which Topics and Topic Clusters the Institution has contributed to and is active in
3. Using the radio buttons you can either analyze individual Topics or the aggregated Topic Clusters
4. Choose between the table view and different visualization options
5. Limit to view the top x% of worldwide Topics or Topic Clusters by Prominence
6. Show Top x by Scholarly Output
7. Wheel view of Topics or Topics Clusters

8. Select the Table view to get an overview of the Topics or Topic Clusters ranked by Scholarly Output
9. Select a Topic or Topic Cluster and analyze it in further detail. For a Topic Cluster, click on 'About' to preview the Topic Cluster. For a Topic click on 'About' to preview the Topic. These previews are powered by GenAI (See M also). Also for the Topic, you can view the Publication Centraility metric (See N also)
10. Get a quick overview of the Topic for an Institution, the Field-Weight Citation Impact, the level of international collaboration and the underlying keyphrases sorted by relevance
11. Explore the Topic or Topic Cluster worldwide

12. You can access the summaries by clicking "About this Topic/Topic Cluster"link in the Topic entity header, or "i" icon in the Topic listings
13. SciVal Topic summaries and titles are powered by generative AI (GenAI) and LLM technology
14. Publication Centrality, available for Topics, shows how strongly linked an entity’s publications are to their SciVal Topics

    • a publication is said to be strongly linked or central to the Topic to which it is assigned if it falls within either of the first two categories: ‘definitive’ or ‘very good’