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Refine your life with
SCOPUS
Endre Béky
Account manager, ELSEVIER B.V.
14 April 2009, Kiev, Ukraine
Every day you have to do the CHOICE
Which way
to go to
office?
What to do
in the
evening?
What
information
resource to
choose?
What to eat for
breakfast?
If you work with STM information you have to follow
current trends to be the best:
• Researches are more multidisciplinary
• More international collaboration in researches at the same time more
competitive
• Financial output
• More time is spent to find relevant information than to analyze it
• Need access to up-to-date information 24/7, continuous monitoring of
world tendency in your field
• It’s not enough to find relevant information, it should be evaluated
If you want to follow these trends…
your only choice is …
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature
and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists
need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior
support of the literature research process. Updated daily, Scopus offers
Content
Broadest coverage available of Scientific, Technical, Medical and Social
Sciences literature
• 16,500 titles from more than 4,000 publishers - including
• 15,400 peer reviewed journals
• 1,200 Open Access journals
• 240 conference proceedings
• 550 trade publications
• 310 book series
• 36 million records, of which:
• 18 million records include references going back to 1996 (75%
include references)
• 18 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823
• Scopus also covers 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million
patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author
homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers
CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.
Some facts about the content coverage(1)
• Worldwide coverage; more than half of Scopus content originates from
Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region
Some facts about the content coverage(2)
• References go back to 1996. 70% of all Scopus records, back to 1823, have an
abstract
• Scopus also includes the historical material published by American Chemical
Society (back to 1879), the Springer / Kluwer archive, Institute of Physics (back
to 1874), American Physical Society (back to 1893), American Institute of
Physics (back to 1939), Royal Society of Chemistry (back to 1841) and the
journals Nature and Science. Scopus has loaded the archives of Elsevier (back
to 1823) and the journals Science (back to 1880) and Nature (back to 1869)
• Over 57 million additional cited references that are not covered by Scopus as
such (e.g. books)
• “Articles-in-Press”from over 3,000 journals. These articles are available in
Scopus prior to their official publication date, from Elsevier, Springer / Kluwer,
Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The AIP articles from
BioMed Central will be available shortly
• Coverage is over 99% complete as of 1996 - issue level
Subject areas
• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of
Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles
• Arts and Humanities > 1,400 titles (from June 2009)
Full list of titles (even for non-subscribers) at
http://info.scopus.com
Ukrainian journals covered in Scopus
How does it work?
Designed to spend less time mastering databases
and more time on research
Easy creating of search request in Advanced Search
More than 40 search fields
Results page
Search sources
5 types of sorting results, incl. Cited by
Abstract and references in Scopus: a lot of links to help
your research
Abstract and references in Scopus: a lot of links to
help your research (cont)
Refine results on Results page
You can limit and specify your search results within:
But if your’re looking for specific Title, or Author, or Affiliation
we have the specific tools to FIND and to EVALUATE this data
Research Performance Measurements
in Scopus
Source search and evaluation
Source search and evaluation
Journal page in Scopus
Journal Analyzer:
• for Editors/publishing teams
The Scopus Journal Analyzer gives quick, easy access to an objective and
transparent overview of the performance of your own and your competitors’
journals over time. This can help you analyze and manage journal portfolios
more effectively, identify new growth areas, set out a strategy to increase
performance or decide which journals you would like to be an editorial board
member for.
• for Researchers/University scientists
The Scopus Journal Analyzer enables you to search for journals within a specific
field, identify which are the most influential and find out who publishes them.
This will help you to decide where to publish to get the best visibility for your
work and how to prioritize your submissions. It can also help you decide which
journal you would like to review for.
• for Librarians and information specialists
The Scopus Journal Analyzer enables you to search for all journals in a specific
subject area and view their current details and performance over time. This will
help you ensure you are only investing in the most influential and relevant
journals.
Journal Analyzer
Provides you with four graphical/table
representations of the journals
You can select and compare up to
10 journals in a specific field
Total Citations displays the total number of citations the
selected journals receive over the course of each year
Articles Published shows the number of articles
published by each journal over time
Trend Line provides the number of citations received in that
year, regardless of the publication date of the cited
document, divided by the total number of documents
published in that year
% Not Citations shows the percentage of not cited documents
of the selected journals over the course of each year
Citation Tracker
You can follow the impact
of published documents
via Citation Tracker
Citation Tracker
Number of documents
cited articles from
Tsitologiya I Genetika (2003)
Articles published in
Tsitologiya I Genetika in 2003
The Scopus Author Identifier
The Scopus Author Identifier helps solve one of the biggest problems
associated with author searching:
• How do you distinguish between articles belonging authors with similar names?
• How can you be confident that you captured all results for an author when their
name is recorded in different ways?
• And, can you be sure that names with unusual characters such as accents have
been included?
Author Identifier
Author Identifier presents the preferred author name along with the
variants of the name that have been grouped into an author profile.
Automatic grouping into one Author Profile done by:
Variants of name;
Source titles;
So-authors;
Subject area;
Affiliation
If one of the criteria is not similar,
Scopus doesn’t group documents
into one Author Profile.
But you can do it manually !
Author Details
We’re open for your feedback
Grouping Authors
Author’s Output via Citation Tracker
Number of documents
cited this author’s articles
“Real” Author’s Output via Citation Tracker
Number of documents
cited this author’s articles,
excluding self citations
h-index
The h-index (short for highly cited index) was developed in 2005 by
Professor Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist at the University of
California in San Diego, to qualify the impact and quantity of an
individual’s research performance.
Professor Hirsch states in the introduction to his paper that most
researchers seek to gain a better understanding of the impact of their
work, “For the few scientists who earn a Nobel Prize, the impact and
relevance of their research is unquestionable. How does one quantify
the cumulative impact and relevance of an individual’s scientific
research output?”
h-index formula
A scientist has index h if h of his or her NP (number of papers)
papers have at least h citations each and the other (NP – h) papers
have fewer than h citations each.
Article rank
position
1
2
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Citation count
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J.E. Hirsch, “An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output,”
PNAS 102, 16569-16572 (2005)
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0508/0508025.pdf
h-Index counted and h-graphs created automatically
h-graphs
Benefits of Author Identifier:
• for authors
it does the hard work for you by automatically matching variations of an author’s
name and distinguishing between authors with the same name. All the
documents beloning to a speciifc author will be listed in the author's details
(including numbers of citations received, affiliations, h-index)
• for deans, chancellors, provosts and heads of departments
it will ensure you can identify people and their work more quickly and efficiently.
This leaves you with more time for the actual work and enables you to make
well-informed strategic decisions.
• for librarians and information specialists
it ensures you have all the documents belonging to an individual author as part
of your institute within your own repository.
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier is the world’s first online tool to automatically
identify and match an organization with all of its research output. It turns an
expensive and laborious task into a simple search - leaving you with more time
to analyze the results and make clear, informed decisions.
This is a notoriously difficult task because the organization’s name is often spelled
or recorded differently by individual sources; it may change its name or have a
name that is very similar to another organization. One such example is the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where articles found in Scopus and
published by authors belonging to this institute carry more than 1,700 name
variants.
Affiliation Search
Organization’s Profile
Organization’s data
Journals where published
University’s authors
The most published author
of the University
The most cited author
of the University
Benefits of Affiliation Identifier:
• for deans, chancellors, provosts
it will help reduce investment in research performance measurement by
reducing the time needed by staff to perform laborious bibliometric searches.
This will allow money to be invested in other areas such as education and
learning. Ultimately, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier will help you make faster,
better-informed strategic decisions
• for heads of departments
it reduces the time needed to identify and aggregate all the documents
belonging to a specific organization. This leaves you with more time to do the
actual benchmarking analysis, and enables you to make well-informed strategic
decisions
• for senior and middle management
it will ensure you can identify research trends more quickly and efficiently
• for librarians
it ensures you have all the documents belonging to your institute within your own
repository.
THES World University Rankings use Scopus from 2007
From WoS to Scopus:
Now Scopus Custom Data is used to
help establish the annual THES-QS
World University Rankings. Scopus
has been chosen to provide the data
source for the metric evaluation for
the official rankings to ensure that
greater clarity and transparency can
be guaranteed
How to get your journal indexed in Scopus?
Hard requirements
• Active journal
• Peer review process
• English abstract
Soft requirements – recommendation for higher success rate
• Regularly updated journal website in local language and English
• Active and international editorial board
In 2008 out of 2000 journals application approx. 800 journals were accepted.
Additional Features
Personal features help you to save time for further sessions in
Scopus
Alerts
The alerts can run daily, weekly or monthly and deliver new results
to you by e-mail. Notifications are also available in RSS.
About Scopus - http://info.scopus.com/
in Russian:
http://elsevier.ru/products/electronic/polythematic/Scopus/
Your contacts:
Endre Beky, account manager
Tel: + 36 70 32 34 937
[email protected]
Galina Yakshonak, account development manager
Tel: + 7 985 727 79 67
[email protected]
Informatio-Consortium
http://www.informatio.org.ua