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2014 saw the global launch of SciVal, combining the best parts of SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Strata into a product that, a decade later, is used by thousands of university professionals around the world.
One thing that kept coming back, was the impact our Customer Consultants had on our customers, delivering training and guidance on SciVal and its underlying data and metrics.
I remember a series of seminars at one of our departments, where Zsofi Buttel (a SciVal Customer Consultant), was doing part of the teaching in the seminars. We had seminars like 'Boost your researcher profile' and sessions more directed to research groups where SciVal was a part. I think these seminars made a very positive impact at the way we work with these fields at Aalborg University.
—Poul Meier Melchiorsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
My first experience of SciVal was a very intense full day, one on one training session with Matt Walker (a SciVal Customer Consultant), when I started as the University’s first Research Publications Adviser in early 2016. I remember leaving the training absolutely exhausted, but rather excited by the possibilities of SciVal.
At one event in Amsterdam, I presented on how to onboard SciVal at your institution. The talk went well, but the locker holding my passport and bag wouldn’t open— the staff at the venue had to hacksaw their way into the brand-new museum locker to open it. This was only an hour or so before my flight check in time and was rather stressful! It didn’t put me off using SciVal though.
—Karen Rowlett, PhD, University of Reading Library, UK
"As a product, SciVal is extremely fortunate to have a vibrant, intelligent and engaged customer base. Without you, SciVal would not be the product it is today. You have collaborated with us, tested, presented, critiqued and ultimately helped us shape SciVal into the solution that helps you provide strategic insights, to help your university's research programs thrive. And for that, we are thankful!"
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RobbertJan Kalff
Head of Product, SciVal at Elsevier
As you’ve probably noticed, SciVal does not sit still! We are in the middle of expanding the data and metrics available for analysis, along with the providing even more flexibility — all of which you’ll see in SciVal over the course of 2024 and beyond.
We’ve recently moved away from the modular design to a new information architecture opens in new tab/window, making it easier to navigate and discover functionality in SciVal.
The competency maps, which uncovered areas of strength for an institution, were replaced with the Topic maps in 2017. This year, we’re updating Topics with an improved mapping algorithm! opens in new tab/window
It’s also nice to see that some design patterns have grown, expanded and been refined, but not changed drastically since the original designs in 2014. Benchmarking is a good example of this.
In the past 10 years, we've exceeded our expectations with SciVal. We hope we've exceeded yours, too. Take a look at how we've grown in a decade, thanks to your support!
SciVal has grown from:
4,600 to 24,600 institutional profiles
3 modules (Overview, Benchmarking and Collaboration) to 6 modules (added Trends, Grants and Impact)
75 trillion to 350 trillion metric values processed per week
18 to 28 years of history
30 to 140+ metrics
34M to 70M Scopus publications
1 (Scopus publication data) to 6 data types (+ views, policy, media, funding and patent data)
SciVal team increased from 15 to 40 members
Over the past 10 years there have been a number of you lovely customers, who have liked SciVal so much that you have become Elsevier colleagues. They have gone on to share their SciVal expertise with peer institutions as Customer Consultants. We asked a few about the transition to celebrate this special milestone.
"A popular early quote from the original product owner Marcel that we used to laugh about, 'Tell me the unknowns!'"
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Najam Khan
SciVal Big Data Developer at Elsevier
Hear from Customer Success Manager Alison Ferrett on how much SciVal has changed over the years, especially how much more "user-friendly and intuitive" it's become.
Hear from Elsevier Advisor Art Ellis on what it was like to work with SciVal to manage scholarly publications, and search for subject matter experts, in the wake of the legalization of cannabis in California.
"Two modules were built first. Overview and Benchmarking. Overview was then called SPS, which stood for Strategy and Performance Summary. I’m glad we settled on Overview instead!"
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Sreekanth Mopuru
SciVal Big Data Developer at Elsevier
Thank you for everything you’ve done for us over the past 10 years and here’s to the next 10!
—The SciVal Team
SciVal is a dynamic product. Over the past 10 years we have averaged over 80 notable release items per year, all to help you with the jobs you need to get done. And we have no plans to slow down!
Just over the horizon we have:
Next Gen Topics
Media metrics
Collaboration improvements
More rankings
More subject classifications
More funding data, and
Generative AI
