An alternative way of looking at research performance, based on citation patterns (co-citation analysis) rather than traditional journal classifications. Publication data for presentation provided by SciVal Spotlight ™ database, Elsevier B.V., http://www.spotlight.scival.com (downloaded November 2012). SciVal Spotlight
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An alternative way of looking at research performance, based on citation patterns (co-citation analysis) rather than traditional journal classifications.
Publication data for presentation provided by SciVal Spotlight ™ database, Elsevier B.V., http://www.spotlight.scival.com (downloaded November 2012).
• WSU’s Office of Research response to:• Weak U.S. economy• End of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• WSU’s Office of Research need to analyze our distinctive and emerging strengths to help determine resource allocations
Why SciVal?
• WSU’s strongest Subject Areas
• How interdisciplinary (or not) WSU is, and how we compare to our peers
• Who are our publication and citation leaders? How do we compare with our peers?
• Who we are/should be collaborating with
Spotlight Analysis Helps Analyze…
• Spotlight mines data from the Elsevier Scopus Database• The worlds largest abstract and citation database of peer
reviewed literature and quality web sources• Based on co-citation impact
• So how does Spotlight mine and classify data? Co-Citation Analysis and “Article Clusters”
Scopus Database
• The Scopus database now collects over 19,500 Journals• Including over 3,500 Arts and Humanities Journals• 2,148 Journals from Elsevier in Scopus
• Totaling over 47 million records• 70% with Abstracts
• Also includes many conference proceedings, websites and reports
Figures
• Distinctive Competencies• Distinctive if the market share - number of papers in a field of research -
is large enough (roughly around or more than 285 papers) AND meets at least one of the following:• Publication Leadership• Reference Leadership• State of the Art Leadership
• Emerging Competencies• Either strong in an emerging market OR• Institution has potential as a leader in the area