The SciVal Grants functionality was developed in collaboration with US universities to support strategic planning and execution of research strategies. It uses the Awarded Grants snapshot from 2010 to...

What is the SciVal Grants subscription?

With over 80 different metrics to choose from in SciVal, the question of "which metric should I use" can become a daunting task. This page gives an overview of the types of available metrics, along with...

Metrics in SciVal – what are they and what are their strengths and weaknesses?

The redistribution table allows you to analyze the redistribution of publications from the Previous generation Topics to the New generation Topics. And the other way around.

The analysis can be done on...

About the redistribution table

The core of SciVal is based on output and usage data from Scopus, a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts.SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to current...

What is the source of the data in SciVal and how are the metrics calculated?

We have expanded SciVal from being a purely evaluative and analytical tool to being an integral part of your research planning process. You can run a complete portfolio analysis to see which Topics your...

SciVal Topics FAQs

CiteScore is a simple way of measuring the citation impact of sources, such as journals.

Below you will find the answers to most commonly asked questions about CiteScore.


	What is the CiteScore methodology?

	
	Calculating...

CiteScore FAQs

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Calculating a Topic’s Prominence combines 3 metrics to indicate the momentum of the Topic:


	Citation Count in year n to papers published in n and n-1
	Scopus Views Count in year...

What is prominence?

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A SciVal Topic is a collection of publications with a common intellectual interest, as determined through citation patterns. They can be used to enrich strategic planning through...

Next Generation SciVal Topics available as of May 21st 2024

In Explore, access research performance summaries of any desired research entity such as Institutions, Countries, Research Groups and Topics.Summary page provides research performance overviews at-a-glance...

Visualize research performance

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...

Introduction to SciVal: Build your views on global research

Access a list of Institutions that you collaborate with or have the potential to collaborate with. Start with a worldwide view of your institution’s collaboration landscape and then zoom in to individual...

Identify and evaluate existing and potential 
collaboration partners

SciVal Metric: Scholarly Output cited by Policy

In Compare, assess your strengths and areas for improvement by analyzing custom selections of entities, metrics and subject areas, which enable confident comparison and benchmarking.The ‘Benchmark all...

Benchmark and monitor progress

Citations per Faculty (QS)

The Highly Cited Chinese Researchers Ranking is released annually since 2015, in a joint effort by Elsevier and ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. It uses Scopus data and is based on the methodology developed...

Highly Cited Chinese Researchers

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge the global community to build a world where no one is left behind.

The United Nations SDGs, adopted in 2015 as part of the 2030 agenda for sustainable...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) FAQs

SciVal customers who subscribe to at least three modules can access the SciVal APIs, which offer many functionalities that are available in the web interface. Use of the APIs can help you streamline and...

What can I do with the SciVal API?

Entities are the building blocks of your analysis in SciVal, representing the research areas, topics, or organizations you focus on to gain targeted insights and make data-driven decisions.Select the section...

Introduction to Entities

    Back to all metricsThe International Research Network Index is an indicator of the strength and diversity of an institution’s research network as determined by sustainable research partnerships with...

International Research Network (IRN) Index (QS)

Patent Article Citations data comes from LexisNexis IP DataDirect. SciVal collects patent data from 107 patent offices worldwide.Of these 107 patent offices, 43 actively cite scholarly output covered by...

Where does Patent Article Citations data come from?

The QS World University Rankings are released on yearly basis by QS.


For more information on the QS World University Rankings, please visit the QS website. Details of the criteria for participation,...

Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings - QS WUR

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Each publication within SciVal is assigned to at least one ASJC category. The assignment comes from the journal in which the article is published. We look at all of the publications...

How are Topics and Topic Clusters assigned to ASJC categories?



The core of SciVal is based on output and usage data from Scopus, a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts.

SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to...

Scopus FAQ

Below is a list of all the different ASJC subject areas in SciVal. You can search using field names and codes, or filter and browse by subject area.

Download a list of ASJC subject areas
 Filter by subject...

Which ASJC subject areas are available in SciVal?

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The new generation SciVal Topics provide greater relevance and precise insights as they consist of more cohesive sets of publications. Learn more

With the launch of the new generation...

What does the launch of new generation SciVal Topics mean for the previous generation Topics?





 


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The count of Policy Documents citing your entity's Scholarly Output. This is a deduplicated count of the total number of Policy Documents citing your entity's Scholarly...

SciVal Metric: Citing Policy Documents

The underlying bibliometric datasets are available for the ranking years 2021, 2022 and 2023.

For more information on the THE World University Rankings (WUR), please visit the THE web site. Details of...

Times Higher Education World University Rankings - THE WUR





 
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The count of policy body countries citing your entity. How many distinct countries have this entity’s publications received citations?

 

This metric helps to show the...

SciVal Metric: Policy Document Countries Count

As part of the QS World University Rankings 2024 edition, the Sustainability performance lens was included to the methodology and makes the 5% of the final score.


 

The Sustainability Score is calculated...

Sustainability (QS)

The Impact Rankings (known as the Sustainability Impact Ratings from 2026 onwards), are the first global attempt to measure university progress specifically around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

THE Impact Rankings / Sustainability Impact Ratings





 


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Shows the total policy citations received by the Scholarly Output in SciVal. It indicates the prolificacy of an entity being cited in policy documents: how many citations...

SciVal Metric: Policy Citation Count

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There is a correlation between the prominence (momentum) of a particular Topic and the amount of funding per author within that topic. On average, the higher the momentum, the...

How does prominence relate to funding?

When clustering publications into Topics, we have established a set of five centrality categories representing how strongly linked (or central) a publication is to its Topic based on the number of references...

Publication Centrality










 

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Scholarly Output (QS)

The Scholarly Outputs or publications considered in the QS WUR calculation and used to calculate the Citation Count (QS) are limited to the...

Scholarly Output (QS)

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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...

How can I use SciVal Topics?

     Back to all metricsCitation Count (QS)Citations received by publications that meet the QS World University Rankings criteria.The QS methodology applies the following exclusions when calculating the...

Citation Count (QS)






 

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The count of Policy Bodies citing your entity. How many distinct Policy Bodies have this entity’s publications received citations?

Please note that this is a deduplicated...

SciVal Metric: Policy Body Count

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	Each bubble represents a Topic or Topic Cluster (depending on the view you’ve chosen).
	The size of the bubble indicates the output of the entity in the Topic or Topic Cluster.
	
		This...

What do the bubbles on the wheel of science represent?

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A Topic is a collection of documents with a common focused intellectual interest and can be large or small, new or old, growing or declining. Over time, new Topics will surface,...

What is a Topic?

Combine impact data, metrics and insights with local knowledge to demonstrate your broader research impact.Now with the Impact functionality you can: Demonstrate and highlight your policy and patent impact...

Impact analytics

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There are two scenarios when the publications in a Topic can change:


	Publications can be added as part of the weekly Scopus feed
	Publications that are 4 years old are re-evaluated...

How often are Topics updated?

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Topic names are produced in a data-driven fashion based on keyphrases extracted from the titles, abstracts and author keywords associated to a Topic. Keyphrases are obtained by...

How are the names of Topics and Topic Clusters generated?

Analyze the research trends of any self or pre-defined Research Area, Publication Set, Topic or Topic Cluster with citation, publications and usage data, to discover key researchers, rising stars and current...

Analyze trends in research fields 

SciVal Topic summaries and titles are powered by generative AI (GenAI) and LLM technology. Titles and abstracts of publications in a Topic/Topic Cluster are processed to create summaries and titles designed...

What are Topic and Topic Cluster summaries and titles?

The publications considered in the Sustainability Rankings are assigned to each SDGs using the Elsevier SDGs Query 2023 and makes up 23% of the Sustainability Score.

The weighting of the Scholarly Output...

Sustainability Scholarly Output (QS)

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Topic Clusters are formed by aggregating Topics with similar research interest together to form a broader, higher-level area of research. These Topic Clusters can be used to get...

What are Topic Clusters?

THE Impact Rankings 2023:uses a data snapshot from 2017 to mid-2021 andconsiders articles, reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters indexed in Scopus ® from 2017-2021 and citations to these...

What publications are considered in the THE Impact Rankings year?

Elsevier gives the ranking agencies a snapshot of data that they use as part of the ranking scores. This set of publications is static. However, the data in SciVal is updated weekly, with adjustments potentially...

Why are some publications outside the ranking year range?

    Back to all metricsThe sum of each QS faculty area Citation Count, normalized by faculty area. This aims to equalize the influence of publication and citation patterns across each faculty area whereby...

Normalized Total Citation Count (QS)



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The number of a university’s publications that appear in the top 10% of the most-cited journals according to the CiteScore metric. It is intended to reflect the excellence of...

Rankings Metric: Publications in the Top 10% Journals (THE)

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All single entities and their group, can all be analyzed based on the Topics and Topic Clusters they are active in.

When looking at Topics or Topic Clusters for groups of Institutions...

Which entities can I analyze based on the Topics and Topic Clusters?



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The ratio of citations received relative to the expected world average for the subject, publication type (paper, review, conference proceeding, book, or book chapter) and publication...

Rankings Metric: Field-Weighted Citation Impact - 5 Year (THE)

Research metrics account for 27% of each SDG Score, except for SDG 17* (27.1%). 8 research metrics are used across 17 SDG rankings, with each SDG ranking using up to 3 research metrics.

Scholarly Output...

THE Impact Rankings research metrics

We use dotted lines for (line charts) and striped bars (for bar charts) to emphasize that the data for the year isn’t complete. The likelihood of additional publications being added to the incomplete years...

What is an incomplete year?

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After researching the different levels of clustering, we found that around 1,500 Topic Clusters gave the correct level of granularity. We took all 94,000 Topics and measured the...

What is the clustering methodology for Topic Clusters?

The SDGs subject classification is created using the Elsevier 2025 SDG mappings and based on the UN agenda for people, planet and prosperity through 2030. The 17 goals and 169 targets aim to stimulate...

Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs Subject Classification

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The number of international higher education institutions that have a sustained partnership with the higher education institution you're looking at. The subset of Scopus publications...

Partners (QS)

The Snowball Metrics were initiated by eight highly successful research universities as a manageable set of metrics that capture the strategic aspects of research performance. The ambition is for the Snowball...

What are Snowball Metrics?

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We take the entire citation network – over 1.5 billion citation links between 59+ million Scopus-indexed documents from 1996 forward and an additional 24+ million non-indexed documents...

How are Topics created?

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The Key Topics functionality allows you to see only the Topics where the entity is considered to be a key contributor. This allows you to filter out Topics to which the entity...

How are Key Topics for an entity calculated?

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The rank percentile value of a research metric is intended to show the university's performance relative to the other universities participating in the ranking.

All universities...

Metric Rank Percentile

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THE produces an overall ranking as well as individual rankings for each SDG. Participation in the overall ranking requires universities to submit data to at least four SDGs one...

Rankings Metric: Impact Rankings (THE)

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Newly emerged Topics represent areas of research that have seen a significant growth acceleration in recently published outputs, and citations and have attracted recent funding...

What are newly emerged Topics?

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To identify newly emerged Topics, we look at a combination of the emergence potential (recent numbers of publications vs previous years), the size of the Topic, citations and funding,...

How are newly emerged Topics created?

QS have mapped their classification to the ASJCs in SciVal.

Download the full mapping.

 

How are the higher and lower level QS classification categories mapped to ASJC subject areas?

QS uses two sets...

How is the QS classification mapped in SciVal?



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The number of citations from clinical guidance to the university’s Scholarly Output. THE uses this research metric to calculate the Clinical citations indicator that is normalized...

Rankings Metric: Clinical Citations (THE)

Currently when you look at a researcher in SciVal you see all the publications they have in their profile. The new home institution filter allows you to see the actual publications productivity of any...

How does the home institution filter work?

The REF 2021 Submissions Research Areas show the SciVal matched publications that were submitted by each institution for each Unit of Assessment in the United Kingdom’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)....

How are the REF 2021 Research Areas created?

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Representative publications are very strongly linked within the topic, and are intended to give us a feel for the central research question of a topic. They typically have many...

How are Representative publications in Topics chosen?



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Related Topics cover a similar research interest to the Topic you are looking at based on text matching. They can help you identify related areas of research that aren’t necessarily...

What are related Topics?



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The number of publications related to the SDG based on a document search of the Scopus dataset supplemented with documents identified using machine learning techniques. THE uses...

Rankings Metric: Scholarly Output (THE)

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Give feedback and suggest specific keyphrases whilst looking at the publications of a Topic or Topic Cluster. Find the Topic name feedback link when looking at a Topic’s publications...

How can I give feedback on the Topic and Topic Cluster names?

EnglishThe SCADC Subject Classification is based on the degree-granting and academic training directory as announced and published by the State Council Academic Degree Committee (SCADC) and Ministry of...

SCADC Subject Classification

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A publication can only ever be in one Topic and one Topic Cluster.

How many Topics or Topic Clusters can one publication be categorized in?

Institutional hierarchies FAQs

    Back to the Impact module FAQsPolicy data in SciVal is licensed from Overton and is updated weekly. Overton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications...

Where does the Policy Data come from?

This classification focuses on funding basic research and works to ensure the effectiveness and appeal of Germany as a centre for research, promoting its adaptability, flexibility, inclusiveness and diversity....

DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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All Topics and Topic Clusters have their own unique identifiers. For example, a Topic can be T.1234 and a Topic Cluster TC.1234. These numbers can also be used for searching.

The...

How can you distinguish between a Topic and a Topic Cluster?

The top three scoring SDGs and SDG 17* are used in the overall ranking. Each score is normalized and accounts for 26 percent of the total while SDG 17 accounts for 22 percent. Because THE ask different...

Top Scoring SDGs

 



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The number of patents from any source that cite research conducted by the university. Patents are sourced from the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the European Patent...

Rankings Metric: Patents Count (THE)



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The sum of abstract views and clicks on the link to view the full-text at the publisher’s website. This metric indicates the total usage impact of the university’s Scholarly...

Rankings Metric: Views Count (THE)

 

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Weighting factor (wf) for the given QS faculty area.  

 



 

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Weighting Factor (QS)


The number of publications considered in the rankings, shown for each institution in Overview is based on a static dataset created from Scopus® data by Elsevier and provided to ranking agencies whereas...

Why are the publication numbers different?




 


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The weighting adjustment (a) for a given QS faculty area and shown as aah, ss for humanistic subjects and aet, ls, ns for scientific subjects 
 
Humanistic subjects: 
aah:...

Weighting adjustment (QS)

You can now transfer the ownership of your research entities in SciVal. If you change positions, leave the organization or you just want to transfer the administration of a shared entity to another person...

How can I transfer ownership of my research entities?

The proportion of a university’s Scholarly Output where one or more co-author is associated with a university that is based in a low or lower-middle income country. This metric is statistically normalized.

This...

Rankings Metric: Co-authorship with Low or Lower-middle Income Countries (THE)




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The arithmetic sums of all Citations considered per each of the five QS faculty areas. 


Sum of Faculty Citation Count (QS)

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The number of international locations (countries) represented by the Partners (QS), with at least one Partner. It's used to calculate the QS International Research Network (IRN)...

Locations (QS)



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The subset of an institution’s Scholarly Output, published with the Partners (QS).


IRN Scholarly Output (QS)



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The ratio of the number of female* authors to the total number of authors, where gender information is available, for a particular university. 

*Gender assignation metadata...

Rankings Metric: Female Co-authorship (THE)

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The scores for each SDG are based on a series of metrics. In total research metrics account for 27% of the score for each SDG (equivalent to approximately 7% of the overall sc...

Rankings Metric: Overall Score (THE)

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The number of Patent-Citations from Patents filed between the ranking year range, that cite Scholarly Output (THE) published at the selected Institution at any time.


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