Transcript What is SciVal Experts? - University of Washington

Husky SciVal Experts User Training
Cynthia Cleto (SciVal Consultant)
Feb 25-26, 2013
Agenda
• Site tour of Husky SciVal Experts
• Profile and search tips
• Funding Integration Module
• Limited submissions in SciVal Funding
SciVal Experts
The SciVal suite
Benchmark performance
of researchers and teams
Analyze institutional
strengths
View funding opportunities
and awarded grants
Establish a directory of
research expertise
Tailored data and report
services for measuring
research performance
External Data
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
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USING A COMPREHENSIVE AND RELIABLE DATA SOURCE
• 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:
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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.
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The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™
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Detailed process to ensure profiles are accurate and complete
Maximize precision
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High level of recall
Automatic Phase
Algorithm creates profiles taking
into consideration many factors
including:
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Author name segments
Co-authors’ names
Author email address
Affiliations (dept, org, city)
Journals (ISSN)
Fingerprints
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Manual Phase
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
Ruffin, Mack T
Collexis Fingerprint Technology
Extracting Ideas from Documents
Text
Taxonomy
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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
Aggregated
Fingerprints
Individual
Fingerprints
Institute
• 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?
Research
Group
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Site tour
• http://www.experts.scival.com/uwashington/
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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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Exercise 1b:
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 1c:
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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Which content types can users add to SciVal Experts?
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Exercise 2:
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 3:
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 4:
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 5:
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 6a:
How can I find experts outside of my institution?
Search for potential collaborators across the SciVal Experts Community.
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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 6b:
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 access
the researcher profiles in the
organization’s own profile
system
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New Funding Recommendation Module: How it works
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The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine™
Fingerprints of a researcher’s
Researchers receive targeted
analyzes funding opportunities
individual publication abstracts
recommendations for
within the SciVal Funding database
in SciVal Experts are linked to
funding opportunities and
Fingerprints of opportunities
potential collaborators via
based on matched concepts
e-alerts and personal web pages
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Welcome Researcher 1
Gates
Cancer
Publication
A unique Fingerprint is generated
for each funding opportunity
NIH AIDS
Gates Cancer
Opportunity
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The weight and number of concepts
shared by the publication and
funding opportunity dictate the
“strength” of a recommendation
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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
• Access to a complete database of
opportunities and awarded grants
• No action required by the user to
receive recommendations
• User sets up profile to receive
recommendations
• Offers less recommendations for
opportunities than Funding but more
targeted suggestions
• Provides more recommendations for
opportunities than the funding tool in
Experts – good for browsing
• Recommendations are based on
matched concepts between an
opportunity and the researcher’s
individual publications – identified via
the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine
• Recommendations are based on
matches between an opportunity and
the researcher’s Scopus profile –
matches are based on eligibility criteria,
keywords and subject areas
• Users can only get recommendations
for themselves
• User can get recommendations for
other researchers
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Q&A
Any questions?
Cynthia Cleto (SciVal Consultant)
[email protected]
Linda Gamman, Laurie Stephan (UW Research Office)
[email protected]
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Thank You