InCites Benchmarking & Analytics
Measure your success. Multiply your impact.
Confidently build your research strategy with trusted data
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a flexible research evaluation tool that helps you easily analyze trusted data to make confident decisions about your research programs.
Trusted data
Advance your institution’s mission by relying on academic research data that is accurate, objective and complete from the Web of Science Core Collection™.
Strategic insights
Be a leader in responsible research evaluation using innovative indicators developed by the Institute for Scientific Information™.
Flexible reporting
Empower stakeholders across your institution to make informed decisions with multiple report options.
Measure your success. Multiply your impact.
Objective analysis
Make confident decisions based on publisher-neutral data from 1980 to present day.
Trusted data
Reference the same data used in 75% of major research evaluation initiatives around the world.
Multiple impact measures
Demonstrate outcomes with publications, patents and grants data sourced from Web of Science™, Derwent Innovations Index™ and Pivot-RP.
Journal analytics
Align library intelligence to researcher needs using journal level metrics from Journal Citation Reports™.
Prebuilt reports
Gain insights from a flexible tool that offers both prebuilt reports for novice users and powerful capabilities for analysts.
Innovative indicators
Evaluate academic and scientific research using normalized citation indicators that control for differences in institution size and subject area.
Drive your research mission forward
Inform planning with evidence
Benchmark your performance against peers and assess collaborations to inform strategic planning.
Monitor progress toward goals
Track open research, contributions to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and more.
Demonstrate funding outcomes
Show the impact of sponsored research and identify trends to inform future proposals.



What’s new in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics?
A new suite of collaboration impact indicators, developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ allow InCites Benchmarking & Analytics users to quickly see a nuanced view of how collaborations contribute to organizational, regional and national impact.
Collab-CNCI helps you:
- Evaluate impact by gaining a balanced view of research collaboration influence versus research quality, revealing true impact drivers.
- Balance collaboration partners by maintaining strong domestic and international networks to ensure sustained, resilient research impact over time.
- Align policies and funding to prioritize and target funds where collaborations yield the highest impact.

Discover emerging topics that point to where future breakthroughs are likely. Conduct a deeper analysis of emerging topics using the newly integrated research area schema in InCites.

Get clean researcher profiles with minimal administrative burden
With the implementation of the My Organization module into InCites Benchmarking & Analytics you can retain full control of your own data and accurately evaluate researchers, departments, and research programs.
My Organization enables institutions to upload researchers, teams, departments and publications for more granular assessment reporting.

Rely on a standardized dataset without needing researcher validation. Seamlessly integrate metrics and reporting across your organization and sync with your other systems.
- Embed and integrate data into your Research Profile System using the My Organization API, or directly connect to Converis, VIVO and Esploro.
- Analyze and evaluate using the full reporting capabilities within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics.
- Batch export standardized citation reports to facilitate annual reviews and assessments.

With Author Match Service, our Clarivate team of experts create and manage your researcher dataset for you by matching your departments and researchers to their publications from the Web of Science.
- Save time and money by eliminating the need for your staff to manually curate publications.
- Author datasets are updated three times per year, reflecting any researcher or organizational changes.
- Using a combination of machine learning and human curation, we provide the most reliable dataset.
- We deliver a dataset you can use to populate any profiling system or we can populate InCites My Organization for you.

InCites metrics founded on research
Proven methods and indicators in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is a global team of experts focused on the development of analytical methods and approaches, including innovative indicators and novel data visualizations that are applied in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics.
Foundational Global Research Reports:

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Patrick Devos, Statisticien, Direction de la Recherche et de l'Innovation CHU de Lille & Plateforme Lillometrics, University of Lille
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Mauro Apostolico, Research Support Repository Librarian University of Padua, Italy
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Ayca Aydemir Mazlumoglu, Library Director Acibdem University, Türkiye
We were able to show that the most influential research at USF is conducted.
Laurel Thomas, International Research and Global Engagement Data Manager USF World, University of South Florida
InCites opened the scope – instead of just looking at Western’s ROI, it’s looking at open access across the landscape.
Samuel Cassidy, Head Collection & Content Strategies Librarian Western University, Canada
InCites can tell you about the impact of a researcher’s work in a way that other databases can’t.
Laurel Crawford, Manager Collections Strategies Johns Hopkins University

The library’s critical role in the shift to open access publishing
Read the case study to learn more about how Johns Hopkins University (JHU) used InCites Benchmarking & Analytics to inform decisions surrounding open access publishing agreements and to help JHU scholars to demonstrate the impact of their work.
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Assess research and researchers to understand impact and establish strategies for the future.
Analyze past awarded grants to inform strategic proposal development for new funding.
Identify top contributors in relevant research areas to build expert teams and strategic partnerships.
Research benchmarking exercises can build comparisons between academic institutions, researchers, academic departments, journals, collaboration partners and funders.
Yes, R&D corporations can identify key opinion leaders and verify expertise for new recruitment, pinpoint centers of excellence and identify academic labs for collaboration, learn which organizations and researchers your competitors fund and monitor investment in topic areas.
Become familiar with new enhancements that have enriched the InCites platform by reading the release notes.
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