SciVal Biotechnology Portal

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Alberto Zigoni, Senior ConsultantResearch ManagementElsevier BV

SciVal Biotechnology Data Portal

Chieti, 11 September 2014

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Source: CORDIS

The Italian Biotech R&D limited ability to attract funds

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SciVal Biotechnology Data Portal

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• A tool to analyze the world scientific production in the field of Biotechnology

• Metrics of production, scientific impact, international and cross-sector collaboration

• Analysis of the collaboration network of Italian institutions

• Macro (Countries), meso (institutions) and micro (researchers) analyses

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Facts & figures

Over 400,000 publications included

2,654 journals

Over 6.8 million citations

All countries in the world

Over 4,600 institutions in the world4

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La base dati: Scopus

• Il più grande database bibliografico e citazionale multidisciplinare al mondo, contenente letteratura scientifica peer-reviewed, fonti web qualificate, brevetti ed altro.

• Scopus copre 21.912 riviste ed oltre 30.000 libri da più di 5000 editori al mondo.

- Health Sciences (100% Medline): 6.300- Physical Sciences: 6.600- Life Sciences: 4.050- Social Sciences & Humanities: 6.350

• Scopus contiene oltre 10 milioni di profili di ricercatori disambiguati per nome ed affiliazione, ed i profili delle affiliazioni cui sono associati

• Scopus è utilizzato da prestigiose istituzioni ed agenzie per l’analisi della ricerca

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http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/

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Classification of Biotechnologies, level 1OECD

Revised Field Of Science and Technology (FOS) classification in the Frascati Manual, 2007

Environmental Biotechnology

Industrial Biotechnology

Medical Biotechnology

Agricultural Biotechnology

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Classification of biotechnologies: level 2

Based on Klavans & Boyak (2008)

43 sectors, both domain specific• Gene Therapy• Food protection• Crop science

And interdisciplinary• Applied genetics• Genomics and nucleic acids• Protein Science

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Bibliometric indicators

Production• Publications• Fractionalized publiations

Quality• Citations• Impact (Field-weighted Citation Impact)• Number (and share) of publications in the top x% most cited

publications• Number (and share) of publications in the top x% most

prestigious journals (based on SNIP and SJR)

Collaborations• Extent and intensity of the collaborations• Scientific impact of co-authored publications

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DimensionsSubject field

Publication year

Co-authorship• Single author• Istitutional• National• International

Cross-sector co-authorship• University• Corporate• Government• Medical• Other

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Collaborations map: scale free network

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Institutional collaboration network

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Integration with Scopus

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Examples of analyses applied to Medical Biotechnology

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Publications, 2008 - 2012

Source: SciVal Biotechnology Data Portal

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Publications (excluded USA and Cina), 2008 - 2012


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Share of publications in the top 10% most cited publications, 2008 - 2012


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Semantic map, Emtree Drug terms, 1996 – 2000

Source: SciVal Biotechnology Data Portal, Gephi

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2001 – 2005


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2011 – 2014


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Research trends (Emtree drug terms)


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Geographic distribution of keywords


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