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Acquiring Funding by Demonstrating Research Strengths
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), the second-oldest national university in the country, was seeking a significant share of government funding so it could advance its research programs. It faced a highly competitive application process that required supporting data about research strengths. Find out how SciVal Spotlight helped USM to bid and successfully attain the grants.
Working Toward a Cure: Examining The State of Global Breast Cancer Research
The global expansion of breast cancer research reflects the changing scenario for breast cancer itself, and the rising threat it poses to women in both developed and developing countries. At the same time, the expansion of breast cancer research and greater collaboration among researchers on the global level may be a harbinger of greater worldwide awareness paid to the leading cancer killer of women.
Data Driven Research Strategy
With increased competition for financial resources, research institutions around the world are taking a strategic approach to research development. In countries where national research assessment exercises are in place, university funding and research performance data have arisen as key elements in strategic development.
Building a Global Collaboration Network to Fight Cancer
Seeking to further facilitate research collaboration within The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and across their 23 sister institutions around the world, the Vice President of Global Academic Programs decided to utilize SciVal® Experts to help researchers and administrators identify experts within the network and enable opportunities to collaborate. By expanding MD Anderson's application to its sister institutions, the Vice President plans to build a global network to fight cancer.
Objectively Distributing Research Funds
The Executive Vice President of Tohoku University, one of the top research universities in Japan, needed to allocate a special funding budget. Using data from SciVal Spotlight and SciVerse Scopus, in addition to internal data and feedback from top researchers in each department, the EVP was able to establish an objective method for distributing the funds.
Confronting the Global Water Crisis Through Research
Water resources research is expanding worldwide as countries and funding agencies turn to scientists to help solve problems of dwindling fresh water supply and oceanic changes that impact every continent.
SciVal Strata Factsheet
Measure Researcher and Team Performance Using Customizable Indicators.
SciVal Strata Prospectus
Institutional leaders, administrators, research managers and researchers themselves need an objective means for evaluating strengths, assembling productive teams, and allocating a vast array of resources, from personnel to equipment, supplies, space and more.
In this product overview brochure, find out how SciVal Strata can help your managers and researchers with these tasks.
SciVal Experts Factsheet
In this two page fact sheet, discover more about how
SciVal Experts can help you to identify expertise and enable collaboration in your institution while providing accurate and up-to-date author profiles based on publications from the Scopus®; database.
SciVal Experts Prospectus
SciVal Experts is a directory of research expertise that makes it easy for researchers, administrators, managers and senior leadership to find experts and enable collaboration within their institution. SciVal Experts enables users to solve the “who knows what” questions across their organization while relieving researchers of the burden of creating and maintaining their own profiles.
In this overview brochure, find out more about how
SciVal Experts can help you to identify research expertise in your institution and further collaboration.
The Future of Research Management - Embracing a more strategic role
As we enter a new decade, the traditional rules of funding are being rewritten as the borders between disciplines and countries are quickly dissolving. Research managers in Europe and their research administrator counterparts in the United States are finding themselves at the epicenter of this fundamental shift.
Charting a Course for a Successful Research Career: A Guide for Early Career Researchers - 2nd edition
As researchers operate in a progressively competitive research environment, with grant applications increasing, funding opportunities decreasing, and funding bodies tightening the reins around their requirements and expected outcomes - early career researchers are often at a disadvantage when applying for grants. In this helpful guide, Professor Alan M Johnson, steers early career researchers through the potential pitfalls and opportunities when planning for a successful research career.
SciVal Perspectives - Identifying Multidisciplinary Researchers to Support Internal Collaboration
As research adopts a more flexible and dynamic structure, a more holistic approach is needed to identify new multidisciplinary research and collaboration opportunities.
With university leaders benefiting greatly by identifying such opportunities to collaborate, this addition to our ‘Perspectives’ series demonstrates how SciVal Spotlight can help institutions to foster multidisciplinary collaboration, by accurately assessing a university’s research output and identifying its specific strengths. Ultimately helping to maximize research potential and funding, whilst also raising institutional profiles at a global level.
Webcasts & Videos
Our webcasts provide an instant digest of topical discussions within the research environment.
Optimizing the Grant-seeking Process through a new Funding Intelligence Solution
Sarah Starr, Director, Office of Funding and Research Development at Ohio State University and an expert on the U.S. research funding landscape joins Daniel Calto, Director for Product Management at Elsevier A&G and Josine Stallinga, Product Manager with Elsevier A&G to provide insight for institutions looking to optimize the grant seeking process in the current economic climate.



