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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.

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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.

 

 

Collab-CNCI

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.

 

 

Research Horizon Navigator

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.

  • Upload your own researcher profile data using templates or using the My Organization API.
  • Or use our Author Match Service to populate your profiles using Web of Science data, data from your Pivot-RP profiles or Esploro organizational structure, saving you time and effort.
Build my organization

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.
Sync my organizaion

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.
Author Match Service

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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Unpacking research profiles: Moving beyond metrics
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Profiles, not metrics
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Research assessment: Origins, evolution, outcomes
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Navigating the Structure of Research on Sustainable Development Goals
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Unlocking the efficiency of international research collaboration
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Identifying Research Fronts in the Web of Science: From Metrics to Meaning

Talk to our experts about research benchmarking and analytics.

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95m
publication records
2.3b
linked citations
31m
records with funding data
121m
records with patent data

Resources

A robust analytics tool plus support from world class analysts A robust analytics tool plus support from world class analysts
Factsheet
A robust analytics tool plus support from world class analysts

Unlocking research collaboration Unlocking research collaboration
Blog February 10, 2025
Unlocking research collaboration

A new suite of indicators for citation impact analysis to aid accurate interpretation of international comparisons in research assessment is now available in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics. Accurate assessment and…

Navigating the future of research with emerging topics in InCites Navigating the future of research with emerging topics in InCites
Blog January 14, 2025
Navigating the future of research with emerging topics in InCites

Conduct deeper analyses of emerging research trends with the integration of Research Horizon Navigator™ data across the InCites™ application. In today’s fast-paced research environment, identifying trends early is key. Institutions,…

Introducing Research Horizon Navigator Introducing Research Horizon Navigator
Blog June 4, 2024
Introducing Research Horizon Navigator
Unlocking emerging topics in research with Research Horizon Navigator
For better insights, assess research performance at the department level For better insights, assess research performance at the department level
Blog March 14, 2024
For better insights, assess research performance at the department level

Three ways Clarivate is closing information gaps and establishing reliable data for improved decision-making To win more funding and plan a course for the future, institutions need to understand how…

Maximize Collection Management at your Library: the Power of Citation Analysis + Integrated Evaluation Tools Maximize Collection Management at your Library: the Power of Citation Analysis + Integrated Evaluation Tools
Blog July 27, 2023
Maximize Collection Management at your Library: the Power of Citation Analysis + Integrated Evaluation Tools

Citation analysis is a data-driven method that enhances library collection management – enhanced by new integrated tools . Library collections are fundamental to the outcomes of teaching and research at…

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics overview InCites Benchmarking & Analytics overview
Factsheet
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics overview
Confidently build your research strategy with trusted data.
How to take an evidence-based approach to building a scholarly community How to take an evidence-based approach to building a scholarly community
Blog March 1, 2023
How to take an evidence-based approach to building a scholarly community

International research collaboration is critical to scientific discovery. Just as the research landscape grows in complexity, the landscape of collaboration continuously changes, making it more challenging to track progress. At…

A more sustainable future for all: Introducing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in InCites A more sustainable future for all: Introducing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in InCites
Blog February 3, 2022
A more sustainable future for all: Introducing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in InCites

Introducing new functionality within InCites Benchmarking and Analytics, allowing users to search and evaluate according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.   Designed in 2015 to be a “blueprint to…

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Doing a GRAS analysis used to be complicated. Now with the GRAS schema available in InCites, it's far easier.

Patrick Devos, Statisticien, Direction de la Recherche et de l'Innovation CHU de Lille & Plateforme Lillometrics, University of Lille

InCites is a powerful tool for analyzing research by topics and subject areas, made more dynamic by the wide range of category schemas.

Mauro Apostolico, Research Support Repository Librarian University of Padua, Italy

We are happy with the product, it allows the library to contribute bibliome.

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

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Using trusted data to inform strategic direction
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Using trusted data to inform strategic direction

The University of Lille and the University Hospital Center use trusted data and analytics to advance and demonstrate excellence. Despite the growing trend in open source data, the University of…

The library's role in strengthening institutions’ standings
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The library's role in strengthening institutions’ standings

Enabling research excellence in the health sciences
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Enabling research excellence in the health sciences

Acibadem University, Türkiye uses citation analytics to elevate its performance and establish itself as an expert in health sciences globally

Bridging the gap: using data to enhance global engagement
Case study
Bridging the gap: using data to enhance global engagement

Evaluating open access publisher agreements
Case study
Evaluating open access publisher agreements

Western University Library applies transformative agreement assessment practices to deliver enhanced value to the institution

The library’s critical role in the shift to open access publishing
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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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FAQs

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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