1. Log in to SciVal through OneSearch
2. Sign in with your Elsevier credentials (you may have created an Elsevier account through Scopus) or register if you have not
3. Go to Explore
   
4. Select Define Entity and Researcher (can be found in the top left corner)
   
5. From Define a new researcher search for yourself by name. It is a good idea to include your affiliation, especially if you have a common name and could be confused with other researchers with the same or a similar name
    
6. Select your profile from the list. If you think that there may be some publications incorrectly allocated to your profile or any publications may be missing, go to Validate Publications but if you are satisfied with the profile as it is go to Save Researcher. You should be able to make most changes required to your profile from here but if you need to merge two or more entire profiles in Scopus you can do so using the Scopus Author Feedback Wizard.
   
7. If this is your profile, you have the option to connect this profile to your SciVal account which will create a link to your profile from the SciVal landing page. Select Save and Finish
   
8. Your profile will now appear in the overview screen and you will be able to start looking at your researcher metrics
   

Summary 

Provides a summary of your output as a researcher however it is only for specific year ranges. If you want to create reports for beyond the year ranges provided use the Report Templates or explore customising reports further.

Select your profile from the Entity list in the top left corner. If you do not see your name here you need to find your researcher profile in SciVal (see above).

There are a number of more in-depth reports grouped together by theme accessible from the left-hand-side menu  

• Bibliometrics - Includes publication and citation metrics as well authorship metrics (articles where first placed author or corresponding author).
• Contribution - Affiliated institutions and journals published in. 
• Research Fields - Analysis by topics and subject areas.
• Collaboration - Analysis by individual collaborators, collaborating institution and geographic region.
• Impact - Policy and Patent citation data.

If you would like to see the same data but for different year ranges there are a number of report templates available.

Report Templates 

Go to Reporting (top right corner)

Select Report Templates and then Templates provided by your institution. You might find some the templates provided by SciVal useful but those provided by your institution are customised for UWA researchers for specific applications such as grant applications.

Select the report template that best suits your requirements. 

From here you will need to select your researcher profile - you can also choose to select multiple other researchers if you will to benchmark against others, however, you can just select your own profile. If you are not able to find your own profile in the list make sure you have activated it. Drag your profile across to the right-hand side of the screen and select Next step.

You can then rename and create the report.

You can then view and edit the report. Each report will have multiple analyses, each of which you can go into and edit by going to Explore /edit analysis.

You can also change the year range for the report from here.

You will have the option to save the report. Once you have done this you will have the option of directly accessing the saved report in future rather than having to return to the report template.

See customising reports (below) for more detail on how you might edit your report from the template.

Explore 

The Explore module is the easiest way to find metrics for yourself or your research outputs. It can also be used to analyse the performance of an institution or research group, a region or country or to analyse the trends and metrics in a research area.

For more information on using the Overview module see the SciVal Support Center.

Reporting 

Save any analysis to a report to create a customised reusable report. 

For more information on Reporting in SciVal see the SciVal Support Center.

Benchmarking

The benchmarking module is useful tool not just for benchmarking yourself against your peers in your field but is also useful to create reports for yourself without the year range limitations in the Explore module. 

You can select the year range you wish to analyse going back to 1996. You can also choose to to only report on publications from a particular subject area 

To create a report for yourself go to Compare and select All Metrics

Select Table and Benchmark multiple metrics then Select multiple metrics at once

From the Add and manage metrics menu you can selection a number of different metrics to report on. Drag across any metrics you would like to include from the left to the right side of the screen. There are a number of different metrics you can select form but some you might consider adding could include.

• Citation Count
• Citation per Publication 
• Field-Weighted Citation Impact
• Outputs in top Citation Percentiles
• Publications in Journal Quartiles

Beyond this you can also look at patent count, scholarly output cited by policy, geographical collaboration or views.

You should now be able to see the metrics you have added in the table. Click on the down arrow next to any metric to see further options for how to display the metric e.g. as a percentage or a total number or for Outputs in the top percentile what percentile. 

If you do wish benchmark different researchers you can add any number of other researchers to the table by selecting them from the Researchers and Groups panel.