You can access SciVal with the same username and password you use for other Elsevier products (such as ScienceDirect or Scopus). If you do not have access to other Elsevier products, you will need to register first.
Follow these steps to register:
After completing these steps, you will have created an account with SciVal. You will receive a confirmation email to the address you provided.
SciVal uses Scopus data for the period from 1996 to the present.
In the Overview, Collaboration, and Trends modules, 3-, 5-, and 10-year ranges are available.
In the Benchmarking module, a year range slider is available and spans from 1996 to the present.
When you first log in you’ll see the SciVal homepage which shows the modules your institution subscribes to and provides links to key resources, including the 'New in this release' section at the bottom.
The following video demonstrates navigation of the SciVal home page, the module(s) available to you, the Help and Support sections, and My SciVal, where entities are located and can be modified.
An entity is anything that can be viewed and analyzed in SciVal in terms of academic performance. Entities can be pre- or user-defined and can be edited, tagged, imported, exported, and shared. An entity can therefore be anything you want:
