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The Scopus Affiliation Identifier is the world’s first online tool to automatically identify and match an organization with all of its research output. It turns an expensive and laborious task into a simple search - leaving you with more time to analyze the results and make clear, informed decisions.

How does it work?
In order to build an organizational profile, you need to identify and match all of an organization’s publications. This is a notoriously difficult task because the organization’s name is often spelled or recorded differently by individual sources; it may change its name or have a name that is very similar to another organization. One such example is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where articles found in Scopus and published by authors belonging to this institute carry more than 1,700 name variants.

Using a combination of sophisticated algorithms and a comprehensive knowledge base, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier disambiguates name variants, automatically identifying and matching an organization with all of its research output. It searches across the entire Scopus database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals and delivers fast, comprehensive results. A task that once took days can now be completed in a matter of minutes. This means you spend less time searching and more time on the actual analysis.

  

“Up until now our personnel have had to carry out the mammoth task of evaluating our own and other organizations. It is both a slow and expensive process. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier produces the same results in significantly less time. This not only helps us to reduce our financial investment but also allows us to focus on research analysis rather than data collection and filtering activities.”

David Clay, Deputy Head of Academic Liaison and Finance at the University of Liverpool

Evidence
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier takes the time and hard work out of institutional searching and matching. It automatically runs through all the possible spelling variants of an institution’s name, so users don’t have to. With the Scopus Affiliation Identifier, a task that previously took a few days has been reduced to a matter of minutes

 

How can you benefit?
All of our users can benefit from the Scopus Affiliation Identifier’s unique identification and matching functionality

Academic and government market
Deans, chancellors and provosts
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier will help reduce investment in research performance measurement by reducing the time needed by staff to perform laborious bibliometric searches. This will allow money to be invested in other areas such as education and learning. Ultimately, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier will help you make faster, better-informed strategic decisions.

Bibliometricians
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier reduces the time needed to identify and aggregate all the documents belonging to a specific organization, leaving you with more time for the actual analysis.

Heads of departments
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier reduces the time needed to identify and aggregate all the documents belonging to a specific organization. This leaves you with more time to do the actual benchmarking analysis, and enables you to make well-informed strategic decisions.

Librarians
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier ensures you have all the documents belonging to your institute within your own repository.

Senior and middle management
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier will ensure you can identify research trends more quickly and efficiently.

  

Government / funding bodies
Bibliometricians
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier reduces the time needed to identify and aggregate all the documents belonging to a specific organization, leaving you with more time for the actual analysis.

Corporate
Competitive intelligence professionals, project leaders and innovation and new technology managers
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier allows you to see what your competitors are doing and to identify industry trends and leaders, enabling you to make well-informed decisions quicker.

Librarians
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier ensures you have all the documents belonging to your institute within your own repository.

Senior and middle management
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier will ensure you can identify research trends more quickly and efficiently.

Demo
Watch the tutorial here!

Questions?
If you have any questions about the Scopus Affiliation Identifier, please contact your local HELPDESK

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
For a complete overview of the FAQs click here.