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Fostering collaboration

Research Intelligence

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Scopus®

Relevant, accurate search results are an essential first step to uncovering trends, discovering sources and collaborators, and building further insights.

Scopus creates unique identifiers for each author and institutional affiliation to distinguish between researchers with similar names, and links IDs to publications – ensuring quick and seamless discovery of the content you need to jump-start your research.

Elsevier Fingerprint Engine®

A back-end software system, the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine mines the text of scientific documents – publication abstracts, funding announcements and awards, project summaries, patents, proposals/applications, and other sources – to create an index of weighted terms which defines the text, known as a Fingerprint visualization.

By aggregating and comparing Fingerprint indices, the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine enables institutions to look beyond metadata and expose valuable connections among people, publications, funding opportunities and ideas.

In today’s competitive environment, institutions are under increased pressure to demonstrate the value and impact of their research. Collaboration, both cross-institutional and with industry partners, not only increases researcher and institutional visibility; research has shown that institutions with more partners, and those with more diverse collaborations, have higher citation rates1. The rich functionality of Elsevier’s Research Intelligence portfolio helps you quickly identify collaborators from across disciplines, thus facilitating more effective and productive partnerships.

Powered by data from Scopus, the broadest source of global scientific research, and the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine, Elsevier’s Research Intelligence portfolio allows you to:

• Identify current and discover potential collaborators

• Provide data-driven analysis of collaborative behavior and impact

• Deliver insight into how institutions can facilitate more powerful collaborations

1Bordons, M., Aparicio, J., & Costas, R. (2013). Heterogeneity of collaboration and its relationship with research impactin a biomedical field. Scientometrics, 96(2), 443–466. doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0890-7.

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2Barriers to Organized Interdisciplinary Research in a University Environment. In R. Rustum (Ed.), The Interdisciplinary Imperative: Interactive Research And Education, Still An Elusive Goal In Academia. Lincoln: Writers Club Press.

“...society’s problems do not fit neatly into the University’s departmental grid, nor are they rapidly divisible into subproblems...interdisciplinary research teams can readily respond to multi-discipline, problem-oriented research and public service opportunities.”

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SciValSciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of more than 230 regions and countries and over 10,000 research institutions worldwide.

Develop Collaborative Partnerships on a Global ScaleIdentify and analyze existing and potential collaboration opportunities based on publication output and citation impact:

• Explore rich visualizations of your institution’s current and prospective research partnerships across academia, industry, government and nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations

• Identify your top collaborative institutions, geographic regions, countries and co-authorship

• Gain insight into the key players in emerging research fields to find potential new collaborators

Showcase research expertise and support research networking with the Pure Portal

• Explore rich visualizations of your institution’s current and prospective research partnerships across academia, industry, government and nonprofit/non-governmental organizations

• Visualize collaboration networks— both institutional and international —for individual researchers or entire organizations

• Enable external partners to easily discover your university’s experts to foster cross-sector and applied/translational collaboration

Fully understand the impact of collaborative research with the Reporting Module

• Identify your top collaborative institutions, countries and co-authorships

• Analyze collaboration opportunities based on publication output and citation impact

• Gain insight into the key players in emerging research fields to find potential collaborators

Give research managers tools to better support multi-institutional research management with the Pure Community Module

• Get a clear view of multi-institutional projects so that you can make evidence based strategic decisions

• Accurately connect funding to impact for multi-institutional projects, demonstrating the full benefits of the funded project

• Showcase the research expertise and assets of multiple institutions in one community portal, making it easier for potential collaborators to find expertise. Ensure easy discovery of assets and expertise for researchers within closely linked research institutions to avoid duplication

PurePure is a research information system and expertise discovery solution that makes it easier to analyze current and potential collaborations by providing tools for research managers and researchers.

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MendeleyCollaborating has never been easier.

Analytical servicesElsevier Analytical Services delivers accurate, unbiased research-performance analysis drawn from high-quality data sources, including Scopus®, plus Elsevier’s technical and research metric expertise accrued over 130 years in academic publishing. Collaboration reports analyze the extent and the effects of your institution’s collaborative activities on citation impact.

Report: “Mapping Research and Innovation: Understanding Amsterdam’s Competitive Advantage”In partnership with the Urban Innovation Network, Elsevier analyzed Amsterdam’s research strengths, including volume of collaboration and benchmarked its performance against ten other comparable European cities.

View the report at: http://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/research-initiatives/amsterdam-report

Collaborate with colleagues worldwideCreate a new group dedicated to your topic and invite colleagues from all over the world to join. You can also create Private Groups that are only visible to invited members, letting you share information securely. Groups make it easier to discover ideas and inspire new ones.

Engage in interesting discussionsConnect with like-minded researchers in institutions around the world so that you can combine your knowledge and find new avenues for research.

Curate and share reading listsYou can browse other members’ public reading lists to discover relevant content. You can also review articles with your collaborators. When a group member adds a note/highlight/summary to a document, the edit is visible to all members of the group.

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