SciVal Spotlight begins with a new, bottom-up approach to measuring research performance. Based on co-citation analysis and an innovative visualization technique, SciVal Spotlight customizes unique graphical views of an institution’s research performance indicating growing areas of multidisciplinary strength and identifying key competitors and potential collaborators, which allows research managers to make objective and strategic evaluation and planning decisions throughout the year. Rather than ranking broad subject areas, SciVal Spotlight creates a map upon the Wheel of Science that illustrates for which specific research topics your institution has a Distinctive Competency, revealing research strengths that reference literature from a single disciple as well as those that are highly interdisciplinary. 

 

To ensure that your map represents the broadest coverage of research output, SciVal Spotlight uses Scopus as an underlying data source. With over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature.