Husky SciVal Experts User TrainingCynthia Cleto (SciVal Consultant)

Feb 25-26, 2013

SciVal Experts

• Site tour of Husky SciVal Experts

• Profile and search tips

• Funding Integration Module

• Limited submissions in SciVal Funding

Agenda

The SciVal suite

View funding opportunities and awarded grants

Establish a directory of research expertise

Analyze institutional strengths

Benchmark performanceof researchers and teams

Tailored data and report services for measuring research performance

External Data

SciVal Experts

What is SciVal Experts?

SciVal Experts is an expertise profiling and research networking tool that helps researchers, administrators, managers and senior leadership identify experts and enable collaboration within their institution and across organizations

• What does SciVal Experts do?- Searchable directory to find experts and facilitate new partnerships- Understand ‘who knows’ what by researcher and department- Accurate, up-to-date author profiles for the researchers in your institution- Showcase your researchers’ activities and accomplishments

"SciVal Experts gives us a comprehensive snapshot of our faculty’s research activities and makes it easy to find experts in a given discipline for collaborative research. It is a great tool to introduce new faculty to existing researchers and to spotlight potential faculty to collaborate on grant proposals."

Ken Riopelle, Research Professor, Wayne State University

SciVal Experts

• SciVerse Scopus: The largest abstract and citation database of research information

• 18,000+ active titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including coverage of:

Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts and Humanities

• Independent journal metrics SNIP: The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper

corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fields.

SJR: The SCImago Journal Rank reflects prestige of source - value of weighted citations per document.

USING A COMPREHENSIVE AND RELIABLE DATA SOURCE

SciVal Experts

The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™

Detailed process to ensure profiles are accurate and complete

Algorithm creates profiles taking into consideration many factors including:

• Author name segments• Co-authors’ names• Author email address• Affiliations (dept, org, city)• Journals (ISSN)• Fingerprints

Maximize precision High level of recall

Elsevier’s Profiles Team verifies the results of the algorithm through a series of tasks.

Example: Profiles Team completes a biodata search for every profile by:

• Matching publications to the author’s CV

• Searching for past affiliations• Identifying name changes

Automatic Phase1 2 Manual Phase

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Collexis Fingerprint Technology

Extracting Ideas from Documents

TaxonomyText Fingerprint

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Fingerprints can be aggregated at various levels

Aggregating researchers’ Fingerprints across organizational units allows for the

institution to know what individuals know and what groups know…

Department

Institute

Research Group

• What new publications and grants have been produced?

• What trends have emerged over time?

• Who is working together? • With what other organizations

(internal and external) are we collaborating?

• What do we know?

Individual Fingerprints

Aggregated Fingerprints

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SciVal Experts

• http://www.experts.scival.com/uwashington/

Site tour

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Exercise 1a:

How do I navigate my profile?

• Search by last name

• Track your publication history and list of journals

• Review your unique research Fingerprint

• Access list of Similar Experts

• View co-author and institutional networks

• Visualizations to identify research trends and co-author relationships

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How do I update my publications from Scopus?

• Click the ‘Edit Your Profile’ button

• Click ‘Provide Feedback to the QA Team’

• Complete the feedback form

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Exercise 1b:

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How do I enter additional information into my profile?

• Click the ‘Edit Your Profile’ button

• Click ‘Update My Profile With My Own Information’

• Enter your username and password

• Select your domain(s) of expertise

• Click any of the ‘Add’ buttons to enter data

• When the form is completed, click ‘Save’

• To edit the information, click the relevant ‘Add’ button and then click ‘Edit’ by the record you’d like to update

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Exercise 1c:

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Which content types can users add to SciVal Experts?

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How can I find experts in a specific concept within my institution?

• Search by a concept of interest to identify experts in a specific area of research

• Select specific concept from list provided

• Review list of researchers

• Add or remove concepts to refine search

• Access publications associated with concept

• View researcher’s profile

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Exercise 2:

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How can I identify similar experts in my institution?

In addition to searching by concept in SciVal Experts, you can also identify collaborators by using the Similar Experts feature

• Bring up researcher profile

• Access list of Similar Experts

• Click on a researcher’s name to visit his or her profile

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Exercise 3:

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How can I find the right researchers for a funding opportunity?

You can identify potential collaborators for a funding opportunity by searching for experts in a specific concept, outlined earlier in this guide, or by conducting a full text search.

• Copy text from source document

• Paste text in ‘free text search’ box

• Select a vocabulary for the analysis

• Review list of experts

• Tailor search criteria as needed

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Exercise 4:

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How do I navigate my co-author network?

• Access a list of your co-authors• View publications you co-authored• Click on an internal co-author’s name to

access his or her profile

• Access the Research Network visualization• Identify co-author relationships• Pull up details of individual co-authors

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Exercise 5:

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How can I find experts outside of my institution?

Search for potential collaborators across the SciVal Experts Community.

• Click SciVal Experts Community• Search by concept, last name or full text • Review list of researchers• Click on a researcher’s name to access

his or her profile

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Exercise 6a:

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How can I find experts outside of my institution?

Find experts across the DIRECT2Experts Network

• Click DIRECT2Experts• Search by concept, last name

or free text • Review list of institutions and #

of researchers associated with search criteria

• Click on an institution to accessthe researcher profiles in the organization’s own profile system

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Exercise 6b:

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The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™

analyzes funding opportunities

within the SciVal Funding database

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1Fingerprints of a researcher’s

individual publication abstracts

in SciVal Experts are linked to

Fingerprints of opportunities

based on matched concepts

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Publication Opportunity

ü

Researchers receive targeted

recommendations for

funding opportunities and

potential collaborators via

e-alerts and personal web

pages

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The weight and number of concepts shared by the publication and funding opportunity dictate the “strength” of a recommendation

New Funding Recommendation Module: How it works

A unique Fingerprint is generated for each funding opportunity

Welcome Researcher 1

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Limited submissions visible from SciVal Funding home page

Browse based on

limited submissions

opportunities

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Opportunity detail

Detail shows the

limited submissions

criteria

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Search results for limited submisions opportunities

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How does the Funding Recommendation Module compare to SciVal Funding?

Funding Module in SciVal Experts SciVal Funding

• Recommendations for funding opportunities and collaborators

• No action required by the user to receive recommendations

• Offers less recommendations for opportunities than Funding but more targeted suggestions

• Recommendations are based on matched concepts between an opportunity and the researcher’s individual publications – identified via the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine

• Users can only get recommendations for themselves

• Access to a complete database of opportunities and awarded grants

• User sets up profile to receive recommendations

• Provides more recommendations for opportunities than the funding tool in Experts – good for browsing

• Recommendations are based on matches between an opportunity and the researcher’s Scopus profile – matches are based on eligibility criteria, keywords and subject areas

• User can get recommendations for other researchers

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Q&A

Any questions?

Cynthia Cleto (SciVal Consultant)

c.cleto@elsevier.com

Linda Gamman, Laurie Stephan (UW Research Office)

research@uw.edu

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Thank You