Powering the Research Management Ecosystem
Symplectic Elements is a highly-configurable research management system which ingests data from multiple sources to build a truly comprehensive picture of your organizational data.
You can structure and connect scholarly information throughout the research lifecycle, reducing administrative burden, deriving powerful new insights, and showcasing the real-world impact of your research.
Symplectic Elements goes beyond traditional Research Information Management (RIM) systems, offering you tools for research funding and awards management, equipment and technology profiles, and assessment exercises – all within one easily-navigable, single source of truth.
Public profiles
Showcase your research expertise
Faculty activity reporting
Minimize the burden of faculty activity reporting
Open Access
Smart open access compliance tracking, flexible workflows and powerful reporting
Research assessment
Streamline internal reviews and exercises
Tech transfer
Drive innovation through industry partnerships
Impact tracking
Gather evidence of the wider societal impact of your work
Analytics & reporting
Empower users to make the most of data
Minimize administrative burden
Symplectic Elements continuously captures research data from the widest range of internal and external sources in the industry – including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Crossref and more – creating a single source of truth for your institution’s research activity.
Intelligent harvesting works in the background to automatically capture publications, grants, citations, altmetrics, and other research metrics. Data can then be centrally managed, structured, and reused for reporting, assessment, open access compliance, and public engagement.
Symplectic Elements was created with the overarching mission of minimizing administrative burden and relieving some of the repetitive, time-consuming nature of manual tasks.
Our new initiatives enhance data capture and streamline data entry through responsible use of AI, harnessing new technologies to continue to make the lives of research officers and librarians easier.
Key features
Collect and reuse research information
Continuously and automatically capture publications, grants, citations, and more from the industry’s widest range of data sources – ready to reuse across profiles, reporting, and compliance.
Showcase academic achievements
Turn your data into branded, mobile-friendly public profiles that highlight publications, grants, teaching, and professional activities – as well as equipment, facilities and groups – boosting visibility and collaboration.
Simplify faculty assessments
Streamline annual reviews, promotions, and national assessments such as the REF with flexible workflows that reuse existing data, removing duplication and reducing admin for everyone.
Manage reporting & analytics
See trends, track progress towards institutional goals, and demonstrate compliance or engagement – our highly configurable reporting tools give you deep insight into your own rich data sets.
Showcase your research community
Public profiles in Symplectic Elements go beyond basic CVs by surfacing biographies, publications, grants, teaching activities, patents, and more. Institutions can also highlight specialist facilities, equipment, research groups, and interdisciplinary collaborations, creating a complete and accessible picture of their research community.
Profiles are fully branded to your institution, mobile-friendly, accessible, and always up to date – providing a compelling, searchable portal for internal and external audiences.
Support research evaluation exercises
Symplectic Elements provides specialist tools for streamlining research assessment exercises and ensuring compliance with government and institutional policies. Configurable workflows make it easy to gather submissions, capture feedback, and track review progress.
Out-of-the-box workflows support national exercises such as the REF and PBRF, as well as internal processes like publication approvals, conference attendance requests, and promotion rounds.
Manage government research assessments
Gather, collate, and report on research outputs, outcomes, and activities to meet submission requirements for REF, PBRF, and internal frameworks.
Support open access workflows
Guide researchers to deposit the right version of their outputs in just a few clicks, while monitoring compliance across multiple OA policies and repositories.
Track and demonstrate impact
Capture qualitative and quantitative evidence of societal, economic, and cultural impact, linking it to outputs, grants, and engagement activities for richer narratives.
Gain strategic insight with the Reporting Hub
The Reporting Hub transforms research data into intelligence that drives decisions. Highly configurable dashboards and reports allow you to:
- Analyze trends in outputs, funding, citations, and collaborations
- Compare performance year-on-year
- Monitor progress toward strategic objectives
- Track compliance with open access mandates and government frameworks
Advanced reporting options include a specialist SQL-based reporting database, enabling direct querying, integration with BI tools like Tableau or Power BI, and creation of custom report templates.
Drive open access engagement
Symplectic Elements streamlines compliance across multiple funder, government, and institutional policies. Tailored deposit prompts guide researchers to upload the right version in just a few clicks, while real-time dashboards let administrators track engagement, flag non-compliant outputs, and record exceptions. Flexible policy targeting, automated repository integration, and detailed reporting at researcher, department, or institutional level make it easy to drive deposit rates, reduce admin time, and meet evolving open access requirements.
Technical Infrastructure
Symplectic Elements provides a secure, interoperable, and scalable environment for your research data:
- Secure and scalable hosting with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST compliance, encryption, disaster recovery, and uptime monitoring.
- Automated, comprehensive data collection from the widest range of integrations in the industry, with support for identifiers like ISSN, GRID, ROR, and Dimensions grants.
- Flexible and interoperable through a REST-based API and SQL Reporting Database for integration with data lakes and BI tools.
The widest range of data sources in the industry
Symplectic Elements offers the widest range of automated data integrations in the industry; our state of the art automatic claiming and identifier search functionality will save your researchers time and effort.
We go beyond just publications metadata – capturing citations, altmetrics, and other research metrics, as well as direct links to open access files.
Our seamless Dimensions integration offers the first fully searchable grants data source and will even automatically create links between publications and grants.
| Data | Automated Search | Automatic Claiming | Auto-Link Publications & Grants | Research Metrics | Full-Text Links | |
| Altmetric | Publications | |||||
| ARXIV | Publications | |||||
| CINII | Publications | |||||
| Crossref | Publications | |||||
| Dimensions* | Publications & Grants | |||||
| DBLP | Publications | |||||
| Europe-PMC | Publications | |||||
| Figshare | Publications | |||||
| Google Books | Publications | |||||
| MLA* | Publications | |||||
| ORCID* | Publications | |||||
| PubMed | Publications | |||||
| REPEC | Publications | |||||
| SSRN | Publications | |||||
| Scopus* | Publications | |||||
| Web Of Science* | Publications |
*Subject to license/membership
“Symplectic Elements impressed us with its simplicity, flexibility and control for individual faculty members, and great responsiveness with customer service.”
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