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Scopus & SciVal Overview

Scopus – is a large multi-disciplinary bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for over 60m academic journal articles since 1996. Encompasses over 21.5k peer-reviewed journals and 130k books. Scopus offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references, and details on the number of citations each published document has received. You can view the Top list of journals ranked by subject area in Scopus, (see here for more details ).

SciVal is the research analytics tool for measuring metrics gathered from the Scopus dataset. Both SciVal and Scopus are Elsevier products and both offer quick, easy access to the research performance of over 8,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide. SciVal enables you to get access to comprehensive publication data drawn from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. SciVal provides metrics from a top-level country level to an individual researcher level spreading across all subject areas or at a more granular subject area/ to sub-category subject area.
Create a Scival Account here.

The SciVal tool consists of four different components/modules:

Overview - Get an overview of the research performance of your institution and others, based on output, impact, and collaborations.
Benchmarking – Determine your strengths and weaknesses. Compare your research institution and teams to others based on performance metrics. Model different test scenarios.
Collaboration – Identify and analyse existing and potential collaboration opportunities.
Trends- Explore new areas and investigate partners in this area.

For a quick summary of SciVal, click on the SciVal User Guide NUIGor more detailed information click on the Elsevier SciVal user guide.

Below are some presentations demonstrating Scival uses and outputs:

10th April 2024QS World University Subject Rank 2024: University of Galway achieved a global rank in 24 subjects, up from 23 in 2023, with a Top 100 Global Rank in 3 subjects.

5th December 2023

University of Galway is ranked 120 in the second year of the QS Sustainability Ranking, up from 161-170 in 2022.

27th September 2023

University of Galway retains it's global rank of 301-350 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024.

20th Sept 2023

University of Galway is ranked 98th in Europe out of 690 institutions across 42 European locations in the inaugural QS World University Rankings: Europe

27th June 2023

University of Galway is ranked 289th out of ~ 1500 institutions worldwide in the QS World university Rankings.

1st June 2023

University of Galway continued to climb in the 5th edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World IMPACT Rankings 2023, andhas a global rank of 34 (no. 1 in Ireland, up from 47 in 2022) out of a total of 1,591 institutions from 112 countries across the World.

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22nd March 2023

QS World University Subject Rank 2023: University of Galway achieved a global rank in 23 Subjects, up from 22 last year - with Performing Arts at University of Galway achieiving a global rank of 101-120 for the first time. The subject of English at University of Galway also broke into the top 100 in the world, achieving a global subject rank of 91.

12th October 2022