{"id":7353,"date":"2016-02-03T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/research-metrics\/tools\/scival\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:36:58","slug":"scival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/research-metrics\/tools\/scival\/","title":{"rendered":"SciVal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elsevier\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/e\/resolver\/id\/2669242\">SciVal<\/a> requires users to have an account, but any York person can create one with their York email address.<\/p>\n<p>SciVal draws its citation information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/eresolver\/?id=1194128\">Scopus<\/a>. As of March 2016 they describe their sources so:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The Scopus database covers over 30 million publications from 1996 until the present:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2022 21,000 serials from 5,000 publishers. These include:<br \/>\n\u2022 20,000 peer-reviewed journals<br \/>\n\u2022 390 trade publications<br \/>\n\u2022 370 book series<br \/>\n\u2022 5.5 million conference papers<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Additionally SciVal uses usage data from ScienceDirect the world\u2019s largest scientific full text database with more than 2,500 journals and 26,000 books.<\/p>\n<h3>Help<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scival.com\/help\/\">A full online help manual<\/a> is available, but you must be logged into SciVal to see it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0020\/53327\/scival-metrics-guidebook-v1_01-february2014.pdf\">SciVal Metrics Guidebook<\/a> is available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scival.com\/help\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7761 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-help-page.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of SciVal help page\" width=\"700\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-help-page.png 700w, https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-help-page-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What's in SciVal<\/h3>\n<p>There are three sections: Overview, Benchmarking and Collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the basic overview of York. It can be refined to great detail, but the overview shows the emphasis on STEM disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-overview.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-overview.png\" alt=\"Overview of York in SciVal\" width=\"700\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-overview.png 700w, https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-overview-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benchmarking compares York and its units to other institutions in many ways. Here is one of the most basic views: total publications by year (not being compared to any other university).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-benchmarking.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-benchmarking.png\" alt=\"scival-york-benchmarking\" width=\"700\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-benchmarking.png 700w, https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-benchmarking-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collaborations shows where and with whom research and publications have been done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-collaborating.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-collaborating.png\" alt=\"scival-york-collaborating\" width=\"700\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-collaborating.png 700w, https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/scival-york-collaborating-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Similar tools<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/products\/incites\/\">InCites<\/a>, owned by Clarivate Analytics, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scimagoir.com\/\">Scimago Institution Rankings<\/a>, owned by Scimago, are similar to SciVal, but York does not subscribe to them. You may see other universities using them for rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsevier\u2019s SciVal requires users to have an account, but any York person can create one with their York email address. SciVal draws its citation information from Scopus. As of March 2016 they describe their sources so: The Scopus database covers over 30 million publications from 1996 until the present: \u2022 21,000 serials from 5,000 publishers. 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