Research Intelligence
The university subscribes to intelligence tools to support the research lifecycle – Altmetric, Drexel Research Discovery, Funding Institutional, Incites, Pivot-RP, SciVal, Scopus, and Web of Science.
Faculty, staff and students can access SciVal, Scopus, and Funding Institutional. You must use your Drexel email account and either be within the IP range on campus, or be on the Drexel VPN if not on campus, to gain access to the databases.
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The Altmetric Explorer platform helps you monitor where your research is being talked about online—beyond the traditional citation metrics. Discover and track all online attention your published research receives, including citations in policies and patents, social media mentions, and newspaper and blog mentions. Use Altmetric Explorer to generate reports that demonstrate the broader impact of your work and help support grant applications.
Resources
Drexel Research Discovery is a growing repository of Drexel research and scholarly outputs, including scholarly articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, research data and creative works. Managed and maintained by the Drexel Libraries, the Drexel Research Discovery portal also includes researcher profiles, which offer several benefits, including:
- Makes it easy to showcase your work & the work of your department or college
- Lessens the burden of maintaining your CV
- Saves time by sending automatic updates to your ORCID profile
- Makes it easier to identify subject matter experts for collaboration
If you identify information gaps or inaccuracies or want to learn more about this collection and how it can serve you, contact the Drexel Libraries.
Funding Institutional provides a holistic view of the research funding landscape. It combines over 18,000 active funding opportunities with information on over 3 million awarded research grants from a wide range of government and private funders around the world. You can also add internal opportunities to provide a single-source solution for seeking funding opportunities.
InCites is a customized, web-based research evaluation tool that can help you develop your research strategy. InCites allows you to analyze institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, showcase strengths, and discover areas of opportunity. It offers customized citation data, global metrics, and multidimensional profiles on the leading research institutions and gives comprehensive insight into Drexel's research strengths and performance. It includes all academic disciplines but provides more narrow sub-field data for STEM fields. You must create a personal account through Web of Science or Endnote to access InCites.
Pivot is a comprehensive database of funding opportunities for all disciplines and project types, including federal, non-federal, foundation, and private funding opportunities. Researchers can search for funding opportunities or sign-up for email alerts. Pivot also includes calls for papers and “scholar profiles” for researchers around the world. Create your personal profile in Pivot to receive personalized recommendations and connect with other researchers. New features include a searchable, curated global list of Prestigious Prizes, Honorifics and Awards. Create a Pivot account using your Drexel email for customized access. Visit the Drexel Libraries’ funding resource guide for more information and trainings.
SciVal, a web-based analytics solution that provide comprehensive access to the research performance of over 20,000 research institutions and their associated researchers from 230 nations worldwide. SciVal allows you to visualize your research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.
Resources
Scopus, a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts, is a discovery and analytics tools for use by researchers, librarians, institutional research managers, and funders. Use Scopus to track and assess a researcher’s impact, identify collaborators, track impact of research and monitor global trends, determine how to differentiate research topics and find ideas.
Web of Science is collection of several multidisciplinary databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Use the cited reference search to find articles that cite a previously published work. Use Web of Science to find Journal Citation Reports and other journal performance metrics, such as impact factors.
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