How can I import a hierarchy from Pure into SciVal?

If your institution uses Pure and SciVal, you can select one or more of your organisation structures in Pure and push it into SciVal as a researcher hierarchy. This helps your institution analyse departments, faculties, schools or other organisational units in SciVal without recreating the structure manually.

Only a Pure administrator can select and push an organisation structure from Pure into SciVal. The relevant functionality must first be set up in the Pure admin module. Full details on how to do this in Pure can be found in this FAQ (in Pure).

Once the Pure administrator has selected the organisation structure and started the push, the hierarchy is sent to SciVal. The SciVal administrator receives an email explaining how successful the process was.

SciVal links researchers to Scopus Author IDs. The process works best when researcher profiles in Pure contain active Scopus Author IDs, because SciVal uses these IDs to connect each person to the correct researcher profile. If researchers do not contain a Scopus Author ID, SciVal will use the Scopus Author Feedback Wizard to try and match the researcher to an ID, using details such as the first name, last name, instituiton name and any research papers. SciVal will only match a researcher to an ID if it is 100% confident of the match.

If SciVal cannot confidently match all researchers, the SciVal administrator receives an email with an Excel export. This file can be used to review the unmatched researchers and complete the import process in SciVal.

Full details on how to to import hierarchies into SciVal using a spreadsheetopens in new tab/window

The import process allows you to review unmatched researchers, check that the correct profiles have been selected, and add the researchers to the correct part of the hierarchy. This helps ensure that the final structure in SciVal reflects the organisation structure selected in Pure.

Yes. Scopus Author IDs identified or corrected during the SciVal import process can be used to update the corresponding researcher profiles in Pure. This can improve matching accuracy for future hierarchy pushes.

By default, the hierarchy is shared with users at your institution. This means users can find and use the institution-provided hierarchy in SciVal for analysis.

Yes. The SciVal administrator can manage sharing and choose to unshare the hierarchy where needed.

Yes. The SciVal administrator can make adjustments to the hierarchy after it has been created. For example, they can:

• add researchers;
• remove researchers;
• move researchers into the correct part of the hierarchy;
• update groups where needed;
• add tags to help organise and find researchers or groups later.

Yes. Tags can be added to researchers and researcher groups in SciVal. Tags can help administrators organise, segment and retrieve groups for later analysis.

Before pushing the hierarchy, check that researcher profiles in Pure contain current and active Scopus Author IDs wherever possible. This improves matching quality and reduces the amount of manual review required in SciVal.

How can I request to be set up as a SciVal Administrator?