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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!