Research Horizon NavigatorTM is a module within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics that enables you to quickly discover emerging topics that point to where future breakthroughs are likely to occur. Horizon Navigator is an application that is made exclusively available to all institutions subscribing to InCites Benchmarking & Analytics.
Watch a video tour of Research Horizon Navigator.
What questions can be answered with Horizon Navigator?
Horizon Navigator helps you answer questions like:
- What are new and emerging areas of research?
- Which emerging topics show high interdisciplinarity?
- What emerging topics in my field are gaining the most from interdisciplinary studies?
- How is my portfolio unique and where does it overlap with others?
- How do we benchmark against peers to identify competitive advantages and gaps?
- Who are the top organizations and authors involved in these emerging topics?
- Which funding agencies are supporting emerging areas?
What data is used by Research Horizon Navigator?
The last 5 year of WoS core collection data is the source for Research Horizon Navigator. This includes SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI, and CPCI. It includes articles, reviews, and conference proceedings.
The addition of Conference Proceedings (CPCI) results in more topics in Computer Science & Engineering.
The data in Horizon Navigator is updated monthly.
Accessing Horizon Navigator
To access Horizon Navigator, use the link from the header in InCites.