Fostering Collaboration
In today s competitive environment, institutions must increasingly 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 rates. 1 The rich functionality of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio helps you quickly identify expert collaborators from across disciplines, thus facilitating more effective and productive partnerships. Powered by data from Scopus, the world s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine, the Elsevier 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 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. The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine mines the text of a range of scientific documents from publication abstracts and proposals to funding announcements, awards, and patents to create a Fingerprint index of key weighted terms and concepts for a single text. By aggregating, comparing, and searching across Fingerprints of people, publications, funding opportunities and ideas, the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine reveals insightful connections with practical applications. 1 Bordons, M., Aparicio, J., & Costas, R. (2012). Heterogeneity of collaboration and its relationship with research impact in a biomedical field. Scientometrics, 96(2), 443 466. doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0890-7 2
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. Remick, F. (2000). Barriers 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.
SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of more than 220 nations and regions and over 6,000 research institutions worldwide. Develop Collaborative Partnerships on a Global Scale Identify 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 non-profit/non-governmental 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 Pure provides a hosted, ready-to-use, centralized research networking and expertise discovery system, making it easier to analyze current and potential collaborations. Pure Experts Portal: Expand your Research Network and Connect with More than 80 Institutions Worldwide Jump-start collaboration by identifying experts both within your institution and across 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 Connect with the Experts community to increase your researchers and institutional visibility for potential collaboration opportunities Powered by the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine : semantic analysis of researcher profiles enables contextual searching and richer matches Explore an in-depth view of your institution s collaborative publication data and analyze collaboration volume over time 4
Elsevier 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/researchintelligence/research-initiatives/ amsterdam-report Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that helps you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Collaborating has Never Been Easier Share papers and collaborate Whether you re a research team, lab, or university class - sharing papers can be a challenge. Simply create public or private groups and start sharing documents instantly. Communication made easy Group members can see papers and folders you add to the group on their newsfeed. Keep up-to-date with your collaborators and make working together a walk in the park. See when others add documents Comment and like to start discussion Watch projects progress over time All your ideas in real-time Reviewing an article with your colleagues? When a group member adds a note, highlight or summary to a group document, the edit is visible to all the members of the group. elsevier.com/research-intelligence 5
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