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How can my institution evaluate the impact of its research portfolio?
Last updated on November 15, 2024
To evaluate the impact of your research, you can use SciVal to analyze your institution’s citation metrics. Useful metrics include Citation Count, Citations per Publication and Field-Weighted Citation Impact.
How
Follow these steps to evaluate the impact of your instution's research portfolio:
- Go to the Overview module and select your institution from the left-hand entity selection panel (Athena University in this example).
If you are interested in a particular field of research or time period, adjust the filters for year range and Scopus subject area.
- Go to the Citations tab to see metrics for citation impact.
As you can see, Athena University has averaged 6.8 citations per publication over a five-year time period.
- The Field-Weighted Citation Impact of your institution adjusts for the differences in citation behavior across disciplines. Athena’s impact is 1.63. Citations are 63% more than expected based on the global average.
- The Field-Weighted Citation Impact is the number of total citations received divided by the total citations expected, based on the global average for the field.
- More than 1.00 means that citations are more than expected.
- Less than 1.00 means the citations are less than expected.
- Go to the Overview module (Publications tab) and select 'by Subject Area'.
- You can view Field-Weighted Citation Impact by subject area not just in table format, but also as a bar chart.
- Go to the Benchmarking module.
- Select your field of interest from the 27 main subject areas and 334 subcategories within the Scopus subject classification.
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