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SciVal Metric: Scholarly Output cited by Policy
Last updated on November 15, 2024
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Back to all metricsScholarly Output cited by Policy in SciVal, indicates the prolificacy of an entity being cited in policy documents: how many publications does this entity have indexed in SciVal that have been cited in policy documents?
In Benchmarking and the Scholarly Output cited by Policy tab in the Impact module, there is a percentage Scholarly Output cited by Policy option. This shows the proportion of the entity's Scholarly Output that has been cited by Policy and can be used to compare different sized entity's against each other.
The Policy Documents are indexed in the Overton database and are matched to publications in SciVal via the DOI numbers in the references.
Scholarly Output cited by Policy is a:
- Productivity metric
- “Power Metric”
- Benchmark the Scholarly Output cited by Policy of entities that are similar in size and that fall within similar fields of research, such as Institutions with a similar number of research staff, or Researchers in the same field of research and with similar career lengths.
- Provide impressive figures to showcase the performance of entities that are large in comparison to a group of peers, when this metric is likely to give high numbers.
- Help provide evidence of an entity's research impact outside of academia and the broader impact of their research activities on society
- Benchmarking the productivity of entities of obviously different sizes, such as Countries and Institutions, large collaboration networks and individual Researchers.
- In these cases, use the percentage of Scholarly Output cited by Policy option, or
- limit the use of this metric to similar entities
- Benchmarking the collaboration of entities with distinct disciplinary profiles:
- Academics in distinct fields tend to publish with very different frequencies. For example, life sciences generally publish with high frequency, than academics in humanities, who tend to publish with low frequency.
- When comparing entities made up of a mixture of disciplines, such as an Institution or a Country, apply the Research Area filter to focus on one field that is common between all the entities, or to use field-normalized metrics such as Publications in Top Journal Percentiles which will take this into account.
- Understanding the productivity of small entities for which there may be gaps within the Scopus coverage:
- A single missing publication from a small data set may have a significant negative impact on apparent productivity.
- opens in new tab/windowPercentage of Scholarly Output cited by Policy which provides a size neutral indicator
- Scholarly Output that counts the publications of an entity and provides a simple size indicator
- The set of all other “Power Metrics” whose value tends to increase as the entity becomes bigger: Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, Citation Count, Cited Publications (“Total value”), Number of Citing Countries, Collaboration (“Total value”), Academic-Corporate Collaboration (“Total value”), Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles (“Total value”), Publications in Top Journal Percentiles (“Total value”), and h-indices
- The set of all other “time-independent metrics”, which provide useful, reliable information immediately upon publication and do not rely on the passing of time for useful data to accumulate: Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, Collaboration, Academic Corporate Collaboration, and Publications in Top Journal Percentiles
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