Demonstrating research collaboration can be beneficial for:

• Applying for an academic position or promotion
• Submitting a research grant application
• Increasing your research engagement and impact
• Increasing your research profile.

SciVal allows a researcher to demonstrate through data and visualisation methods the collaboration they have had with other authors at their institution, as well as nationally and internationally.

Example statement

How to find collaboration in SciVal

1. In SciVal, access Explore
2. From the Entity list, from Researchers and Groups, select your name, or use the Create/Import option to Define a researcher
3. If needed, change the date range and the subject area
4. From the left menu, scroll down to the heading Collaboration and then Geographical collaboration
5. From the table, note the percentage for collaboration at different geographical scales
6. Explore further by scrolling down, or using other metrics within the Collaboration heading on the left, such as Current collaborators
7. To find a specific country for collaboration, as highlighted in the above example statement, select scholarly output, then from the left menu, select Countries/Regions.

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Note: Explore will report on a range of years from 2013, while benchmarking from Compare can report from 1996 onwards.

Potential collaboration

If trying to locate researchers in your field in which to collaborate on a grant application, then discover how SciVal enables researchers to locate others researching in the same field, for potential collaboration.

Instructions about Research Collaboration and Finding collaborators are available on the Strategic publishing library guide.