June 29, 2009
New Tool Compares Scholars' Research Strengths
Big publisher offers software to track performance in 80,000 areas
Elsevier
The chart, developed using Elsevier's new SciVal Spotlight tool, shows the makeup of one of a university's "distinctive competencies" within a "circle of science." This particular distinctive competency comprises work from medicine (red lines), chemistry (blue lines), and biotechnology (green lines).
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Elsevier
The chart, developed using Elsevier's new SciVal Spotlight tool, shows the makeup of one of a university's "distinctive competencies" within a "circle of science." This particular distinctive competency comprises work from medicine (red lines), chemistry (blue lines), and biotechnology (green lines).
Just as anxious novelists can check their sales rankings on Amazon 24 times a day, academic researchers have a host of online tools for monitoring their citation stats —and those of their rivals.
Google Scholar, Reuters Thomson's citation indices, and Springer's AuthorMapper —those are just a few of the products that claim to reveal which scholars and departments are having the most impact on their fields.
Now status-conscious researchers (and their
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