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Alexander van Servellen, Solution Consultant

SciVal Experts

UKM 23 April, 2014

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What is SciVal Experts?

SciVal Experts is an expertise profiling and research

networking tool that helps Researchers, Students,

Administrators, Managers and Senior leadership

identify experts and enable collaboration within their

institution and across organizations

What does SciVal Experts do?

- Searchable directory to identify expertise and further collaboration

- Understand ‘who knows’ what by researcher and department

- Provides accurate, up-to-date author profiles for all the researchers in the institution

"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

http://www.experts.scival.com/ukm/

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Primary Data Source for UKM Experts

Largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature

Over 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers

Coverage across scientific, technical and medical fields as well as the social sciences, arts and humanities

Publications automatically updated weekly in SciVal Experts

Manually reviewed quarterly: Elsevier's quality management professionals match publications to affiliations, ensuring institution’s papers are precise & comprehensive

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Researcher Profile Page

Get immediate access

to an author’s complete

publication history

Find experts quickly and

easily – search by

concept, last name or full

text

Establish new

relationships by finding

other experts in the same

field or related disciplines

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Elsevier Fingerprint Engine

The core of SciVal Experts is the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine. Via the Fingerprint Engine, we can scan any

piece of text such as an abstract from Scopus or internal data provided by the customer (awarded grants,

for example) and use thesauri and a variety of Natural Language Processing techniques to analyze the

information, identify and weight the key concepts in the text and present them in a graphical representation,

which we call a document Fingerprint.

Step by step - How Does the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine Work?

1. Scan abstract

2. Identify concepts in abstract based on thesauri and apply Natural Language Processing (NLP)

techniques to accurately interpret text as if the computer were human

3. Weight concepts against all of the author’s abstracts and all abstracts in Scopus

4. Generate Fingerprint of document

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Elsevier Fingerprint Engine

In addition to the Fingerprint process, we also have to ensure the publications are associated to the correct

authors, especially when names are common. We do this in two ways:

We disambiguate author names automatically via an algorithm. We use metadata like name, location, journal,

topics they publish on, who they coauthor with, to automatically group the documents together as precisely as

possible.

Then we have a specialized team that manually reviews and verifies all of the information to ensure all of the

publications are associated to the correct authors. This disambiguation process ensures the author profiles are

accurate, comprehensive and current.

John T. Smith

JT Smith

John Smith

J. Smith

• Automatic process – algorithm groups

authors by key metadata: name, location,

journal, topics, co-authors, etc.

• Manual process – Elsevier verifies

automatic groupings

• Aim is for a maximization of precision

(accurately matched publications) with a

high level of recall (breadth of

publications returned)

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Author Fingerprint Author profile with Fingerprint

Generate an author’s unique Fingerprint by aggregating the Fingerprints of each of their publication abstracts

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Fingerprints can be aggregated at various levels 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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Primary users

Within the Institution

• Researchers

• Research Administrators

• Research Development Professionals

• Research Executives

• Deans and Department Heads

• Students

• Librarians

Outside the Institution

• Researchers

• Research Administrators

• R&D staff at corporations

• Government research institutes

• Donors

• Media outlets

• The public

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“Faculty at Einstein use the application every day to make significant connections

with other researchers. The application is also an essential part of our process to

onboard new faculty, as the site enables investigators and trainees to quickly get

familiarized with the research landscape of the institution.”

Harry Shamoon MD, Associate Dean and Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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SciVal Experts benefits personnel throughout your

institution

• Find collaborators for a funding

opportunity

• Track my list of publications

• Evaluate other researchers’

publications

• Find new articles to read

• Form research teams for grants

• Connect disconnected researchers

• Onboard new faculty

• Identify experts for internal review

committees

Researchers Administrators, Deans and Department

Heads

• Identify organizational strengths

• Demonstrate our institutional

expertise

• Use the data to determine

program design

Research Executives

• Identify mentors

• Find new journals to read

Students

• Identify new articles and grants to

promote

• Find experts to comment on

news items

Communications Department

• Connect donors to researchers

Development Department

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What can I do with SciVal Experts?

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Form a grant team by identifying collaborators in a specific concept

Establish new partnerships by finding similar experts to myself

Keep my CV up-to-date by tracking my publication list

Understand the publication histories and recent activities of other researchers and find new articles to read

Explore connections by navigating my institutional and co-author networks

Find potential collaborators in other institutions by searching across the SciVal Experts Community or the National Network

Researchers

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What can I do with SciVal Experts?

Research Administrators

Research Development Professionals

Deans and Department Heads

Research Executives

Form effective research teams to pursue a funding opportunity

Identify potential collaborators for a researcher or group of researchers by exploring the publication histories and recent activities of authors

Connect disconnected researchers by viewing collaborative patterns in a department

Onboard new faculty by finding experts with matching research interests

Determine program design and support grants by applying SciVal Experts data

Find experts for an internal review committee or to comment on a news item by searching for researchers with a certain expertise

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Students

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What can I do with SciVal Experts?

Find mentors via a concept search or by browsing publication histories

Identify journals that publish research in fields that interest me by reviewing the lists of journals in which researchers have been published

Identify journals in which researchers in my institution are actively publishing by accessing the lists of journals by organization, department or researcher

Look for unique publications or patterns by scanning the lists over time

Librarians

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How can users outside the institution benefit from SciVal

Experts?

Form a grant team by identifying experts in your institution

Identify potential collaborators by reviewing the publication histories and recent activities of researchers in your institution

Form new partnerships with researchers in your institution by identifying experts in a specific concept

Researchers and Administrators Outside of Your Institution

Corporations and Government Research Institutes

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How can users outside the institution benefit from SciVal

Experts?

Identify authors to sponsor by exploring the publication histories and recent activities of researchers

Promote your institution’s research and expertise by finding experts within your organization to comment on a news item

Donors

Media Outlets

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www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence

Thank you!