You can access SciVal with the same username and password you use for other Elsevier products (such as ScienceDirect or Scopus). If you do not have access to other Elsevier products, you will need to register first.
Note: If you are not within your institution's IP address range, you will need to contact your librarian / system administrator about getting remote access.
Follow these steps to register:
Go to www.scival.com
Click ‘Register’
Enter your username. Note: Your username is your email address and it is not case-sensitive
Create a password. Your password must be at least 5 characters long, and it must contain at least:
One uppercase and one lowercase letter
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You can click ‘Add profile details’ to add information to your profile now, or add this later via your ‘Account’
You can select the checkbox to receive information by Elsevier
Select the checkbox confirming you have read and understood the Registered user agreement
Click ‘Register’
After completing these steps, you will have created an account with SciVal. You will receive a confirmation email to the address you provided.
Please note that your institution's email address and last login details may be supplied to your local SciVal admin if requested by them. These details are to help them understand their user base and provide evidence to help support renewal decisions. No other information will be shared.
SciVal uses Scopus data from 1996 to the present day.
Pages that carry the benefits (of the big migration) are indicated with a purple dot in the page menu in Explore, as well as a banner on top of the page. One of these is the flexible year range - while the pre-sets also remain.
In many places in SciVal, you can export data as a spreadsheet, either as a CSV or XLSX.
Click on 'Export' and choose the format you would like.
In the Compare section, under Benchmarking (All metrics) there is also the option to Export the chart as an image or when using the timeline motion Chart as an animated image, and if multiple metrics are selected, there is also the option to export the data per publication year.
Exporting tips
Any time you see a Scholarly Output count in blue, this is a clickable link that shows details about the underlying publications.
You can export the details of up to 100,000 publications as a single spreadsheet.
If you export more than 1,000 publications, SciVal will process this offline and email you once the spreadsheet is ready.
The export for the publications view gives a wealth of options that can be included in the spreadsheet, such as publication details, author and affiliation information, publication metrics, and more. You can choose the options you would like to see on your spreadsheet.
When you first log in you’ll see the SciVal homepage which shows the two main analyses sections ‘Explore’ and ‘Compare’ as well as many other resources found via the "?" button.
The following video demonstrates how to navigate the SciVal home page, the analyses available to you through your subscription, the Help and Support sections, and My SciVal, where entities are located and can be modified.
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An entity is anything that can be viewed and analyzed in SciVal in terms of academic performance. Entities can be pre- or user-defined and can be edited, tagged, imported, exported, and shared. An entity can therefore be anything you want:
From 1 paper to the whole world of content from Scopus (1996 to present)
Predefined e.g. Institutions (groups), Researchers (groups), Topics, Research Areas etc.
User-defined e.g. Research Areas, Groups of Researchers, Publication Sets etc.
Publication sets are a fixed list of documents (50k upload and 200k max)
Research Areas are a live search (max 200k docs) – updated weekly
The metrics given for a researcher or author in SciVal may look different from those found in Scopus for several reasons:
In the Overview of metrics and Research Fields (also referred to as Trends in Research Fields) pages, we use a 3, 5 or 10-year time window, and in the Collaboration, Benchmarking and Impact pages the timeframe is extended back to 1996. You will see differences in metrics such as the scholarly output and citation counts if your researcher has published articles outside of these windows.
SciVal receives a weekly update of new data from Scopus and due to processing times this means SciVal is typically 1-2 weeks behind Scopus. If the year range above does not affect the researcher (as they have only published papers in that year range), the metrics may be different because recently added papers in Scopus have not yet filtered into SciVal.
Click ‘Data source’ to see the latest update date.
When defining a researcher in SciVal you sometimes need to combine multiple Scopus author profiles to give the most accurate researcher profile. Once this is done you can immediately analyze the combined profile in SciVal. At the same time, these profile corrections are sent to Scopus and can take around 3-4 weeks before they are visible in Scopus. During this time period, you may notice metric differences between the SciVal and Scopus author profiles.
The reverse is also true – a user makes a correction to an author profile in Scopus, which takes 1-2 weeks to be visible in SciVal.
How are Researcher metrics generated in SciVal?
SciVal researcher metrics are automatically generated based on the researcher's Scopus Author Profile. Learn more about Scopus Author Profiles
Each year around May/June, the Scopus content for the previous year (i.e. 2024) is around 95% complete. This is the point we consider it a “complete year” and so we then roll our pre-defined time ranges forward by one year. When we do this, the “incomplete year” indicator also moves forward one year (e.g. 2024 becomes a complete year and 2025 and 2025+ are the incomplete years). Learn more about the incomplete year indicator.
We then use the new complete 5-year range (e.g. 2020 - 2024) to recalculate the Prominence percentiles for all Topics and Topic Clusters, using the latest citation and views year windows and the most recent (2024) CiteScore values.
The yearly rollover is also used to update the SciVal to the latest CiteScore, SNIP and SJR values.
Usually, during the yearly rollover we are also assessing papers that were published 4 years earlier for a possible reallocation from their current Topic to a new Topic based on the additional signals (i.e. received citations).