Define your own Research Areas

SciVal offers the flexibility to analyze a variety of pre-defined Research Areas or to self-define bespoke research areas, representing any field of interest to you.

1. Research Areas can represent an area of strategic priority or any other field of interest and can be built using any of the components detailed below. Research Areas can receive new publications on a weekly basis, so are not set. In the ‘Define entity’ link select ‘Research Areas’

   1. Search terms Define your research area based on publications that match a search query
   2. Entities Select and combine any of the below:

      • Institutions (or affiliations)
      • Countries/Regions
      • Subject Areas
      • Scopus Sources
   3. Topics Select and combine Topics to create a new Research Area

2. Get an estimate of when your entities will be ready to use At the end of the creation process, you will be informed if the weekly metrics recalculation is running and so will delay the creation of the entity. Click the ‘Data sources’ link to see when the next weekly recalculation will occur

Note: Research Areas with less than 10,000 publications are available to analyze immediately. However, Research Areas with greater than 10,000 publications can take around 6 hours to be computed and there is a 200,000 publication limit. You will be notified when a Research Area is available for use in SciVal.

3. Refine the Research Area by limiting to publications in the past 5 years, or by limiting or excluding specific Subject areas, Scopus Sources, Institutions, Countries/Regions, Organization types or select specific Publication Years
4. Name your new Research Area, add relevant tags if desired, and save for analysis throughout SciVal 
   The Research Areas can then be analyzed across the platform