| 1 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 1 Scopus Introduction Massimiliano Bearzot | Customer Consultant | Elsevier m.bearzot@elsevier.com
| 2 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 2 What you’ll learn today • What is Scopus and who uses it? • What content types are included in Scopus? • What tasks can Scopus help you accomplish? • What did Scopus release in 2015? • Where can you find out more about Scopus? • On Line Training
| 3 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 3 What is Scopus and who uses it?
| 4 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 4 What is Scopus? Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer- reviewed literature, and features smart tools that allow you to track , analyze and visualize scholarly research.
| 5 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 5 The relationships between articles, author profiles and affiliation profiles via citation data is the foundation of Scopus.com
| 6 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 6 More than 3,500 academic and government organizations and corporations, including more than 150 funding and assessment bodies, use Scopus UK REF Kiel Russian Foundation University UK BIS of Basic Research Queen’s Ural Federal University University Michigan Corporate Belfast STINT Relations Network MD Anderson Danish BFI Estonia Research Council NCN Poland Germany IFQ European Commission & ERC Keio FCT Portugal University NSF ISTIC Peking Italy ANVUR University Gazi University ReachNC TCI - NRF -Korea IISER Thailand Nanyang Nigerian Technological CAPES Brazil Government University ERA 2014
| 7 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 7 A closer look at Scopus data in action Data provider of choice for a large number of ranking agencies Sole citation data service provider for UK’s Research Excellence Framework Sole citation data service provider for Excellence in Research for Australia
| 8 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 8 Scopus data is also used in key reports Science Europe report on European and US research collaboration and Sustainability Science in researcher mobility , a Global Context, 2015 2013 Stem Cell Research, 2013 America's Knowledge Economy: A State-by- State Review, 2015
| 9 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 9 Scopus Content Overview
| 10 Scopus covers different source types for a reason JOURNALS CONFERENCES BOOKS • Timely • Preliminary research • Thorough analysis of (can be a bit less a specific topic • Peer-reviewed formal) (formal research) • Newer ideas All subject fields, but Mainly of importance in Mainly of importance in typical fields with high Computer Science and Social Sciences and the ratio of journal Engineering-related Arts & Humanities publication: chemical, subject fields biological, health sciences etc. Different source types are added to ensure that coverage, discoverability, profiles and impact measurement for research in all subject fields is accounted for in Scopus.
| 11 Scopus contains a variety of content to meet the needs of researchers 60.5M records from 21,568 serials, 88K conferences and 114,266 books 21.9M pre 1996 records | 37.2M post 1995 records • Content from over 5,000 publishers “Articles in Press” from over 5,256 titles • • 4,200 Active Gold Open Access journals indexed JOURNALS CONFERENCES BOOKS PATENTS Physical 88K events 21,568 peer-reviewed 531 book series 27M patents Sciences 7.2M records (12%) journals - 30K Volumes 11,725 361 trade journals - 1.2M items 5 patent offices worldwide Conf. expansion (2005 – Health 2013) • Full metadata, 114,266 s tand-alone Sciences 1,017 conferences abstracts and cited books 12,912 6,022 conf. events references (ref’s post - - 917K items 410K conf. papers 1995 only) • Pre- 1996 cited ref’s 5M citations Social Books expansion: expansion 5M out of Sciences 120K books by early Mainly Engineering and >10M 9,810 2016 • Going back to 1823 Computer Sciences - Focus on Social • Funding data from Sciences and A&H Life acknowledgements Sciences 6,318 Source : Scopus.com and Scopus title list (November 2015), https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/excel_doc/0015/91122/title_list.xlsx
| 13 Ratio of titles per Publisher in Scopus 10% 8% 5% 5% 2% Other 1% 60% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% Source: Scopus title list (February 2015)
| 14 Scopus selects high quality journals via the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) The CSAB is chosen for their expertise in specific subject areas ; many have (journal) Editor and Reviewer experience. UNAM ERA (Australia) Source : Scopus infosite, https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content/scopus-content-selection-and-advisory-board
| 15 Scopus has transparent selection criteria for serial content First, all serial titles must meet all the minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review: Regular English Roman script Pub. ethics Peer-review publication references abstracts statement Second, all eligible serial titles are then reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a combination of 14 quantitative and qualitative selection criteria grouped into 5 categories (all carry equal weight): Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability Source : Scopus infosite, https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content/content-policy-and-selection
| 16 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 16 Scopus Features Overview
| 17 Scopus helps researchers succeed with common research needs RESEARCHER NEED FEATURES Basic/, Advanced Find out what already exists in the global world of research Search, Refine Results Determine how to differentiate research topics, find ideas Basic/Advanced Search Decide what, where and with whom to partner Author/Affiliation Profiles Identify and analyze which journals to read / submit to Journal Analyzer Alerts, Citation Overview, Track impact of research; monitor global research trends Analyzers, Article Metrics Alerts, Author Profiles, Help researchers manage career – citation counts and h -index Analyzers Source : Scopus Own Data, Scopus Exit Survey, 2015
| 18 Find out what already exists in the global world of research
| 19 Find collaborators, decide with whom to partner and manage your author profile
| 20 Identify and analyze which journals to read/submit to Journal Metrics are also freely available for download at www.journalmetrics.com.
| 21 Track impact of research and monitor global research trends
| 22 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 22 Review of 2015
| 23 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 23 Scopus in 2015 H1 H2 “ % Features Interoperability Article Metrics ORCiD Search Performance 1970+ Content Citation Expansion Books Conferences OA Indicator
| 24 Pre-1996 cited reference expansion Already 5.5M pre-1996 documents loaded in Scopus leading to additional >100M cited Coverage • Pre-1996, going back to 1970 references: years • Around 8M+ articles will be re- processed to include cited Number of references. In addition around articles 4M pre-1996 articles will be back- h -index for senior researchers increases: filled 90 80 • Archives from 35 major publishers with available digital Scope 70 10-Jul archives 60 22-Aug 14-Nov 50 20-Nov • Complete: Springer, ASCE, APS, 40 4-Dec IEEE, and more 30 Publishers • Ongoing: Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor 30-Dec 20 & Francis, Emerald, and more 23-Jan 10 0 Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 Author 4
| 25 Article-level metrics module gives new insights
| 26 Open Access Indicator for Journals
| 27 Important Scopus resources to stay up to date: Site URL Scopus Info Site https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus Scopus Blog http://blog.scopus.com Scopus newsletter https://communications.elsevier.com/webAp p/els_doubleOptInWA?do=0&srv=els_scop us&sid=71&uif=0&uvis=3 Twitter www.twitter.com/scopus Facebook www.facebook.com/elsevierscopus LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/scopus- an-eye-on-global-research YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ScopusDotCom
| 28 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 28 Online Training
| 29 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 29 • Create a Personal Profile • Document search Managing results - Output options: Export, Print, E-mail, Create a bibliography - Citation overview • Author Search (Author Evaluator) • Affiliation Search • Sources • Analytics (Journal analyzer, Altmetric) • Where to find more information
| 30 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 30 Registering a Personal Profile and logging into Scopus
| 31 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 31 Registering a Personal Profile: • Although Scopus uses IP verification, you can get the best out of it and save a lot of research time by creating your own Personal Profile . • Your Personal Profile allows you to: • Save searches for later references • Create search alerts • Create citation alerts to specific articles • Save lists of selected articles • Save your own groups of author names • Request corrections to your Author Profile
| 32 TITLE OF PRESENTATION | 32 Settings After you log in, you can access all your personal information by clicking on ‘Settings’
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