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Clarivate · Research analytics and visibility

Essential Science Indicators

ESI helps identify research fronts, highly cited papers, and the global context of research fields.

Analytics subscription Research office / research department Rector's office / leadership Faculties and departments Researchers / PhD students / master's students International visibility Benchmarking and KPIs Rankings and strategy
At a glance

Analytics on highly cited fields, institutions, authors, and topics.

Institutions struggle to understand which topics are genuinely visible internationally and where there is potential to develop their research reputation.

Best fit: research offices, analysts, vice-rectors, departments, and research groups
Resource capabilities

How this resource supports your organization

Clever Consult demonstrates the solution in the context of the client’s needs, then helps set up access, training and communications, and interpret the results for leadership.

Need

Institutions struggle to understand which topics are genuinely visible internationally and where there is potential to develop their research reputation.

Who it is for

department leadership, libraries, research offices, and specialist users

Next action

Request trial access / a demo

Diagnostic signals

Compare these needs with your organization’s priorities. A consultation helps establish whether the solution is right for you.

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understand global research fronts

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the institution is looking for topics to strengthen

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leadership needs evidence to support priorities

What changes after implementation

01

an understanding of internationally prominent topics

02

identification of strong authors and research areas

03

support for a research visibility strategy

Use cases

find research fronts
assess the university's strong research areas
prepare arguments for priority projects

Value indicators

highly cited papers hot papers research fronts institutions authors

How Clever Consult launches the solution

01incorporate it into analytical reports
02show the connection with InCites and CARM
03prepare a review of priority research areas

How to explain value internally

We already have some of these resources

Then the priority is to assess how well tasks are covered rather than whether access exists: who uses the resource, which scenarios it supports, where gaps remain, and how this relates to KPIs.

It is difficult to justify the budget

We build the case using data, usage, a needs assessment, and implementation scenarios for specific departments.