RSP - Publishing Support

The Open Scholarly Research and Publications Team and Research, Excellence, Impact and Culture Team can deliver a variety of training sessions on understanding and using metrics as well the tools to produce and analyse this data.  

We aim to run these sessions twice a year and are open to all staff and research students. Dates will be confirmed, once the minimum number of attendees have registered interest. To register your interest, please complete this form.

For more information on any of these sessions, to arrange hands on workshops for your area or to discuss bespoke sessions please contact us.
 

Overview sessions: 

• Exploring research metrics in Scopus and SciVal

This session will help you to understand and use research metrics, such as citation counts and journal rankings appropriately and in line with University guidance. This will include an overview of the metrics in Scopus (a comprehensive bibliographic database including tens of millions of records from journals, books, and conference proceedings and over 17 million author profiles) at an author, output and journal level. We will then move on to look at metrics available in SciVal a tool which allows you to delve further into data in Scopus.

• Exploring research areas in Scopus and SciVal

This session will guide you through using Scopus (a comprehensive bibliographic database including tens of millions of records from journals, books, and conference proceedings and over 17 million author profiles) and SciVal (a tool to delve into the data from Scopus) to explore research areas and help you to identify research leaders, collaborative partners, potential journals for submitting publications and trends over time. We will cover how to set up searches in Scopus and create entities, such as groups of researchers in SciVal.

Hands on Workshops: 

• Scopus and SciVal hands on workshops 

On request workshops can be developed to guide groups/centres through using Scopus and SciVal to support them in addressing particular topics/issues. 

1-2-1 and small group sessions: 

• If you have a specific query on metrics/SciVal/Scopus that you’d like to discuss please contact us with the details and we will get back to you.