How can I use SciVal Topics?

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For research managers, who are trying to stay abreast of the latest research trends, SciVal Topics can help answer the following:

• What are the pockets of well-funded research in our current research portfolio?
• Who are the top performing researchers and upcoming talent active in those particular research Topics?
• How can we show that our institution is particularly active and leading the way in a research field, which has a lot of momentum?
• Which forward-momentum Topics are our peers and competitors currently active in?

As a researcher, SciVal Topics provide you with a much clearer picture of your overall research performance, and insight into the momentum or level of activity of particular Topics. We can help you answer your most pressing research related questions:

• Which are the Topics with high momentum, that are likely to be well-funded and thus have higher grant success rates?
• Who else is active and publishing research in a similar Topic to mine, whom I could partner and co-author with?
• What are some related Topics adjacent to mine with a lot of momentum, where I could focus my research attention?

The Topics wheel provides a clear and simple overview of the Topics in which your institution is the most active.

All Scopus publications are clustered into Topics using direct citation analysis (as opposed to co-citation analysis).