Institutional outputs and metadata
Build a corpus from research outputs, associated metadata and accessible source material.
Introducing Macroscope / Academic Intelligence
Mapping the true shape of university research.
Macroscope analyses institutional research outputs to reveal the structure, strengths and hidden patterns of knowledge production.
A university is not just a list of departments. It is a landscape of ideas, methods, people and signals.
Macroscope landscape / example labels
Discovered structure
Macroscope builds the landscape from the institution's actual research outputs.
The Problem
Universities know what they publish. But not always what their research looks like as a whole.
Existing analytics can count, rank and benchmark research. Macroscope is built to understand institutional research as a landscape of themes, clusters, strengths and signals.
Product / Method
From outputs to institutional intelligence.
Macroscope retrieves, structures and analyses research outputs. Macroscope Studio turns the resulting maps, evidence and synthesis into a detailed institutional intelligence report.
Machine-learning clustering
Create an epistemic landscape from the relationships inside the institution's actual work.
Full-text analysis where accessible
Retrieve open texts and use them to support richer cluster interpretation and synthesis.
Quality, impact and signals
Analyse funding, leadership, impact, thematic signals and evaluation calibrated against human judgement.
Macroscope Studio
Transform maps, data and analysis into designed institutional intelligence reports.
Key Insight
The landscape is discovered, not imposed.
Macroscope does not begin with a fixed disciplinary schema. It builds the map from the actual research outputs of the institution, allowing interdisciplinary, emerging and overlooked areas of strength to become visible.
Report Outputs
What Macroscope helps answer.
The report is designed for senior leaders, research offices and strategic partners who need a clear view of institutional research identity.
Why Different
Beyond benchmarking.
Macroscope is built for interpretation as well as measurement. It gives structure to institutional complexity without flattening it into league-table logic.
Internal structure before external comparison.
Focused on understanding the internal shape of a university's research, including clusters that do not match standard categories.
Metrics, text analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Combines research signals with machine-assisted reading and human-calibrated judgement.
Clusters, outputs, grants, themes and signals.
Works below the level of schools and departments, where emerging strengths often become visible first.
Current Offer
Productised consultancy, powered by Macroscope.
Semantic Space is currently working with selected institutions and partners to produce institutional research landscape reports. The consultancy offer combines data retrieval, semantic mapping, Macroscope lenses and designed reporting.
- Institutional research landscape reports
- Emerging cluster and overlooked strength analysis
- Funding, quality, impact and leadership signal mapping
- Designed Macroscope Studio report outputs
See your institution as a research landscape.
For universities, research offices, funders and strategic partners.