By  Lars Nondal and Dicte Madsen

Research impact, research performance, research quality – or whatever you call it, is at the top of everybody’s agenda.
Join our introduction to SciVal, a new tool that makes it possible for us to analyze how CBS research publications (journal articles) perform, compared to other universities and business schools. We do this by primarily looking at citation patterns and citation numbers, but also by analyzing other indicators.
Example of SciVal comparison chart:

 




What does this figure tell us?
Apparently, in 2012, CBS had a lower Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) than INSEAD and London Business School – but in 2015 and 2017, CBS had the highest FWCI of the three?
Is that a good thing, is it bad or is it just about acceptable? And what exactly is a FWCI? Curious?

Register for a SCIVAL INTRODUCTION on Thursday 13 Dec 2018 9.30-10.30 in SP1.03

What is SciVal?
In their own words: “SciVal offers quick, easy access to research performance of more than 10,400 research institutions and their associated researchers from 230 nations worldwide”.
SciVal is based on Scopus data and while Scopus is ideal for analyzing the citation performance of individual articles and researchers, SciVal is an analytical tool that allows for easy analysis of research performance (citations) for aggregated levels of publication sets and for groups of authors (departments, research groups etc.). 
SciVal comprises separate modules for benchmarking against other institutions or groups of authors and collaboration analysis (co-authorship) etc.

Access to Scival
All CBS researchers and staff have access to SciVal. Simply sign in with your CBS credentials. If you already have an account with Scopus or any other Elsevier product, you do not need to register again. On-campus access only.

NB. Important!
SciVal is mostly relevant for departments, research groups, and research topics dominated, either totally, or at least substantially, by journal publication. If your discipline is dominated by scientific publication channels other than journal articles, then SciVal is not very useful for you.

If you have any question, please contact: Lars Nondal or Dicte Madsen