By the Office of the Vice-President (Research)

Getting to Know SciVal

This session will enable librarians, researchers and research officers to understand SciVal and its underlying data.  In this training session, all four modules of SciVal will be covered.  Users will learn to evaluate and demonstrate performance of research teams, institutions, publications, research topics and countries all around the world.

Date: Thursday, May 18
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom. The log-in instructions are available here.

About SciVal

A ready-to-use solution with power and flexibility, SciVal allows you to visualize your research performance, benchmark relative to peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.

SciVal helps you assess your institution’s research performance from a variety of perspectives to establish, execute and evaluate strategies based on reliable evidence. Using advanced data analytics, SciVal allows you to instantly process an enormous amount of data and provides access to more than 280 trillion metric values to generate powerful data visualizations on-demand.

Who should attend

The primary audience for this course is:

• Librarians with reporting responsibility for the research office, faculty members and school leadership
• Research officers assessing institutional productivity, strengths, areas for improvement, talent recruitment & retention, identifying collaboration opportunities and researcher impact.
• Researchers doing analysis in their field, discovering collaborators, assessing prominence within their topics of research and increasing their funding success rates

What Will Be Covered

• In this session, we will cover the training fundamentals of:
• Visualize research performance with ready made at a glance snapshots of any given entity
• Flexibility to create and compare different groups and research areas
• Identify and analyze existing and potential collaboration opportunities
• Analyze research trends to discover the top performers and rising stars