How can I identify potential collaborator Institutions in SciVal?

This article explains how to identify Institutions you are not yet collaborating with and analyze them as potential partners in SciVal. 

Step 1: Export your current collaborators 

• Go to your Current Collaborators section in SciVal. 
• Export the list of Institutions you are already working with. 

  • This file will serve as your reference list of existing collaborations. 

Step 2: Export all Institutions from SciVal 

• In SciVal, select the World entity. 
• Navigate to the Institutions page (located in the Contributions page group). 
• Export the list of Institutions. 

  • This export includes all Institutions available in SciVal with publications in the selected year range. 
• If you wish for more granularity, you can filter Institutions in the exported file by: 

  • Country or region 
  • Sector 
  • Selected metrics (e.g., publication volume, FWCI) 

Step 3: Identify Institutions you are not yet collaborating with 

• Open both exported files in Excel (or another spreadsheet tool). 
• Compare and deduplicate the lists: 

  • Remove the Institutions that appear in your current collaborators file from the full Institutions list. 
• The remaining Institutions represent those you are not yet collaborating with — your potential collaboration candidates. 

Step 4: Analyze potential collaborators 

You can analyze the identified Institutions directly in SciVal: 

• Search for each Institution individually, or 
• Create a Group of Institutions to analyze them together. 

  • You can include up to 500 Institutions in a single group. 
• Review their publication metrics, research fields, and collaboration patterns to assess suitability as potential collaboration partners. 

The same steps can also be followed for Country entities — to identify countries that your selected country has not yet collaborated with and explore potential opportunities for new collaborations. 

If the above steps don’t meet your needs, or you have suggestions, we’d appreciate your input to help us shape future solutions for finding collaborators through our short surveyopens in new tab/window.