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TRACKING PERFORMANCE
The scholarly publishers Elsevier and Springer have unveiled new research tools that promise to help universities pinpoint their research strengths. The chart above, 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). (Illustration from Elsevier)
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