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Introduction to SciVal: Build your views on global research
Last updated on July 03, 2026
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SciVal helps you visualize and benchmark global research performance, build collaborations, spot emerging trends and create tailored reports.
Drawing on curated performance profiles for thousands of research institutions and associated researchers, a Topics taxonomy of 95,000+ Topics, and the ability to define bespoke Research Areas, SciVal provides both high-level overviews and granular insights aligned to your priorities.
Data source
SciVal is based on publication and COUNTER compliant usage data from Scopus, the world's largest curated abstract and citation database, as well as policy citations, patent-article citations and awarded grant data.
SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to present, covering over 80 million records from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide. SciVal receives a weekly update of new data from Scopus and due to processing times this means SciVal is typically 1-2 weeks behind Scopus. Learn more about SciVal’s weekly update.
These include:
- 26,000+ peer-reviewed journals
- 400+ trade publications
- 2+ million books
- 320,000+ book series
- 11+ million conference papers
What is the source of the data in SciVal and how are the metrics calculated?
Metrics
SciVal offers an extensive array of simple and more sophisticated metrics, including Snowball Metrics which were defined through an academic-industry partnership to enable their confident and appropriate use in strategic decision making and benchmarking.
Which metrics are available to use in SciVal?
Visualize research performanceopens in new tab/window
Develop, advance and monitor your research programs and strategy, and use research performance summaries to compare your activity to that of your peers.
- Identify and analyze unique research strengths and multidisciplinary research areas
- Understand research strengths in specific Research Areas, Publications Sets or Topics
Develop collaborative partnershipsopens in new tab/window
Advance your research programs with insights into global expertise across many different sectors and fields.
- Evaluate your existing research collaborations and identify potential new partners
- Enhance team building efforts by uncovering research expertise within and beyond institution across all fields of research
Benchmark and monitor progressopens in new tab/window
Evaluate and benchmark your research performance in comparison to others in your region, country and the world.
- Compare your performance to peer research groups and institutions over time
- Choose from an array of research metrics, zoom in on a year range or subject area and build insightful reports
Analyze research trendsopens in new tab/window
Monitor research trends and gain a deep understanding of research fields and leading experts globally.
- Analyze the developments in user or pre-defined fields of interest through graphs, tables, charts and keyphrase analyses
- Identify and investigate individuals or groups contributions to various fields through a wide array of metrics and analyses
Conduct a portfolio Topic analysisopens in new tab/window
The Topic Prominence in Science feature enables you to run a portfolio analysis to see which research Topics your institution is currently active in, and which Topics have high momentum, and so are likely to be well-funded. (please see related article)
- See Topic overviews for entities such as institutions, countries and researchers
- Derive critical insights about which researchers are active in specific Topics, which Topics your peers and competitors are active in and any related Topics you should explore
Showcase your impactopens in new tab/window
Uncover and demonstrate the broader impact of your research on society by identifying individuals or outputs influencing policy or being cited in patents.
- Identify policy mentions and patent citations to develop clear impact narratives for funding bids and case studies
- Strengthen promotion and tenure applications with quantitative evidence of your research impact beyond citations
Reporting - Create customized Reportsopens in new tab/window
Create analyses from across the modules, combine a selection of analyses to create uniquely tailored Reports. Save your most utilized reports in SciVal to export and share whenever you need it.
- Edit the analyses, adding and removing entities, changing the year range and/or selecting more metrics, and save
- Share Reports with other SciVal users within your Institution
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