Academia & Government Consulting
Supporting client decisions with actionable insights
Partnering with you to drive research impact
Trusted expertise
Receive expert guidance from advisors with decades of experience across multiple fields.
Specialized approach
Craft a tailored strategy guided by proven methodologies that deliver decision-making power.
Quality data
Gain a reliable view of research impact using consistent, meticulously indexed data.
Draw connections between research and impact
Consulting services for academic leadership, government policymakers and R&D corporations.
A paradigm shift in the research landscape has increased expectations for societal benefit which can require increasingly complex strategies. Improve research performance and focus your investments with consulting expertise and guidance that draws connections between research and impact.
The Clarivate Academia & Government Consulting team of research leaders and data scientists apply decades of experience, quality data, and specialized approaches. Enhance your action plans so you can uniquely position your research enterprise for growth in an evidence-to-impact climate.

Supporting client decisions with actionable insights
Expertise across domains and sectors
We provide deep domain expertise and leadership experience in academia, government and private sectors.
Authoritative perspectives
90% of the team have dual advanced degrees and PhDs combined with decades of experience across multiple scientific fields.
In partnership with ISI
We apply the work of Institution for Scientific Information (ISI)TM , our team of industry recognized experts who develop analytical approaches for the research community.
Tested methodologies in practice
We leverage rigorously tested and proven methodologies that provide objective and reliable insights to help clients meet their goals.
Customized approaches
Every project plan is developed with your institution’s specific goals in mind using agile logic models and proprietary frameworks.
Client-centered process
Our process focuses on client co-creation and feedback loops that contribute to the delivery of personalized recommendations.
Key practice areas
- Research strategy and reputation
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Research evaluation
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Custom analytics
Understand emerging research trends and identify key players and experts.

Client-centered consulting process
Our unique client-centered consulting process is built to advance your success with transformative intelligence and trusted partnership.
A&G Consulting’s client experience pathway
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Assess your needs
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Align to your goals
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Apply with agility and authoritative methods
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Act on the results

Trusted Clarivate data sources are used for analyses

What questions do you have that Consulting can help you answer?
Our Consulting team can work with you to achieve any of your strategic goals.
Meet the Consulting team
Our Academia & Government consultants are located around the world and draw upon deep domain expertise in scientometrics and hands-on leadership experience to support your decision-making.
Professional services
The Consulting team can help answer any type of question you have about the research landscape. Below are some of the projects and services we perform for clients. If you have a question that needs answered we can help.
We provide an objective evaluation of the academic research portfolio at an institution. Research output, impact, collaboration and IP generation are benchmarked with a client-chosen set of peers.
We provide an independent analysis of internal and external data sources to fully capture outputs and outcomes delivered by your research program.
We build logic models and KPIs to capture your defined research performance criteria, aligning to your strategic goals and program implementations.
We provide a view of how your institution’s demographics compare to the broader community through analyses of researcher gender, mobility and more.
We can identify a tailored group of experts based on criteria established in collaboration with the client. Discover rising stars, key opinion leaders or peer review talent.
We develop a comprehensive database compiling journals, conferences, and other sources to show activity in areas of strategic importance, enable trend analysis and recommend areas with potential.
We establish and manage the grant review process. We establish reviewer qualifications; contact, recruit and onboard reviewers, then collate feedback and assessments of each application.
We provide quantitative analysis of past grant applications and identify areas of underperformance per funder with recommended areas for improvement.
We deliver data-informed forecasts of future research needs in specialized areas to inform capital investments.
We develop and deliver learning opportunities for researchers to help improve research performance across the whole lifecycle, including; publishing, patents, ethics, and grant proposal development.
Using peer benchmarking and Web of Science data used in 75% of the world’s evaluation exercises, or any other relevant data source, we identify a strategy to strengthen your institution’s standing in comparison with other top institutions.