Elsevier Adds New Functionality to its SciVal Strata Performance Evaluation Tool

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Elsevier Adds New Functionality to its SciVal

Strata Performance Evaluation Tool

PR Newswire

AMSTERDAM, June 13, 2012

AMSTERDAM

,

June 13, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Enhanced functionality essential to selecting and assessing a researcher's most

impactful papers

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical

information products and services, has added a new enhancement to SciVal

Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct

highly customized performance assessments of research teams and individual

researchers. The new functionality provides the capacity for objective

assessment of a specific selection of a researcher's work in addition to their

complete publication output. This option is critical when selecting the most

impactful papers to be submitted for various government or institutional

assessments. In addition the enhanced functionality will prove useful to

individuals applying for grants and showing funders the impact of the research

they supported.

SciVal Strata is a flexible benchmarking tool providing multi-tier analysis of

team and researcher performance such as productivity, citation history, and

collaboration activity. The added functionality was developed in global

collaboration with users and with Elsevier's online community of research

administrators.

The new functionality to SciVal Strata will help administrators and researchers:

Apply for funding by demonstrating the value of research carried out to the supporting

funding source.

Secure tenure in the U.S. through the evaluation of four hand-selected papers.

Submit four papers per researcher for the UKs Research Excellence Framework

national assessment exercise

Assess researchers based upon a selection of their work connected to a specific

institution.

"At Elsevier we are in the business of enhancing the scientific research

processes," said Niels Weertman, Vice President, SciVal, at Elsevier. "Scientific

research is about helping to solve some of the world's most pressing problems;

our comprehensive range of resources and tools allow our customers to be

more productive and increase the quality and value of their work, rather than

spending time on paperwork. The new SciVal Strata functionality will help

researchers and administrators fulfill requirements set by the Research

Excellence Framework (REF) and other national guidelines. It is part of our

mission and commitment to the scientific community to support their vital

work."

About the Elsevier SciVal Suite

Elsevier's SciVal® suite of services supports academic and government

leadership in evaluating, establishing and executing research strategies that

optimize the performance of existing assets and maximize investments to

enhance near and long-term productivity. SciVal tools leverage Scopus® data,

Elsevier's trusted source of bibliometric data, to offer innovative yet

authoritative solutions. Current suite offerings include: SciVal Spotlight, a

strategic tool that generates unique institutional and country maps of existing

and emerging research strengths based on an interdisciplinary perspective of

current performance; SciVal Funding, an online solution that provides targeted

recommendations on grants to pursue based on pre-populated research

profiles and historical awards; SciVal Strata, a web-based research

performance tool that offers users the flexibility to construct relevant

contextual data to evaluate research teams or individual researchers, using a

range of indicators based on Scopus data; SciVal Experts, a semantic

technology-based application that enables researchers to identify and locate

sources of expertise at an individual or departmental level within and across

institutions.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical

information products and services. The company works in partnership with the

global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals,

including

The Lancet

and

Cell

, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major

reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include

SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Mosby's

Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health

professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help

research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-

effectively.

A global business headquartered in

Amsterdam

, Elsevier employs 7,000 people

worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading

publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC

and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL

(London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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