InCites Benchmarking & Analytics
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics for research libraries
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics can help research libraries with:
- Conduct library collection analyses
- Assess open access journals
- Support the research enterprise
- Support researcher needs
Learn how to inform your open science and collection strategy
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics can be beneficial for research libraries in several ways
Apply the library’s skills and expertise to support the broader vision of your research-intensive institution. InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a flexible tool for research evaluation that provides trusted, publisher-neutral data so you can make informed decisions about your library resources, assess transformative agreements and demonstrate the success of your research output.
Conduct library collection analyses
Make confident collection development decisions by understanding where your researchers publish, what journals they cite and what journals most often cite your researchers.
Assess open access journals
Understand how open access journals perform globally and how they are performing for your researchers to ensure you are engaging in the most lucrative transformative agreements. Additionally, understand if researcher publishing behavior is trending toward your open access goals.
Support the research enterprise
Apply your bibliometrics expertise to assist research administration with their research assessment needs. Conduct benchmarking exercises, share citation impact and understand collaboration results using normalized indicators.
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Support researchers’ needs
Help researchers discover novel and emerging topic ideas, potential collaborations and promising funding sources. The Research Horizon Navigator™ module identifies emerging research areas, top contributing experts and top contributing funders.
Research evaluation tools for research libraries
Leverage these tools and reports to guide your decision-making
Journal Utilization tool
Analyze your researchers’ journal citation and publishing habits
Open Access Analysis
Understand if researcher publishing decisions are trending towards open access.
Research Horizon Navigator
Guide early career researchers to discover emerging topics, identify potential collaborators and potential funding sources.
The library’s role in research evaluation
University of Padua's relationship between the library and research office delivers enhanced strategic planning
The Library Center at UNIPD coordinates, manages and fosters the development of the University Library System for the benefit of scientific research and teaching, utilizing the latest technologies and following international standards. The Library Center needed a reliable tool to assess and communicate their scientific production in a granular way with analytics on multiple levels and wanted to be able to benchmark their output (including open access output) against other institutions.
Read the case study to learn how the University of Padua leverages library support and the tools in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics to showcase its scientific production and advance its open research agenda.
Research library uses open access analysis tools to assess publisher agreements
Western University Library assesses the performance and return on their investments in transformative agreements.
Western University’s Chief Librarian challenged her team to provide quantitative evidence to demonstrate why they should renew their various existing transformative agreements.
Read the case study to learn how Western University in Canada was able to generate data-driven analyses using InCites Benchmarking & Analytics to inform decision-making at the local and national consortium levels.
Frequently Asked Questions
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a research analytics tool designed to help libraries evaluate research performance and make informed decisions about resource allocation, collection development, and open access initiatives.
InCites provides insights into publishing trends, allowing libraries to identify journal publishing opportunities for their researchers based on citation data and performance metrics. This guidance enhances the likelihood of publication success.
Open access journal agreements or transformative agreements are negotiated between journal publishers and academic institutions to cover article processing charges (APCs) and can include a shift from subscription payments to publishing payments for the library. Publishing ‘open access’ is often a requirement set by funding agencies, national policies and institution principles. A publication is defined as open access if the content is freely available to readers. InCites helps libraries assess the effectiveness of these agreements in supporting institutional goals through open access analysis.
By analyzing citation data and publication patterns, InCites enables libraries to make strategic decisions about their research collection development, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of researchers and align with institutional research priorities.
