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Scopus
Empowering Your
Research
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What is Scopus? What can it do?
As a Comprehensive Abstracts Database
~18,000 sources (90% peer-reviewed journals) from
5,000 publishers
Comprehensive coverage on Scientific, Technical,
Medical and Social Sciences , Arts & Humanities area
Substantial Asia-Pacific and non-US/UK sources
As a Citation Analysis Tool
Citations Analysis of researchers, institution, journal,
research area, etc.
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Search
Foundamentals
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Access via E-Databases
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Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases
environmental education finds over 22,000 records
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Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases
“environmental education” reduces results to under 2,400 records
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Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title,
Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision
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Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title,
Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision
“environmental education” as KEYWORDS reduces results to 1,300 records
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To Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to”
Options (by year / document type / subject areas)
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To Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to”
Options (by year / document type / subject areas)
(KEY("environmental education") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("primary school*" OR
"primary education")) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1999 29 Records Only
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At the Results Screens: you can also add Additional
Search Terms, add Limit Fields
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You can Refine Results by “Limit to” or “Exclude” by Subject Area, Year,
Document Type, etc.
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At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting
Order (the default order is by “Date”)
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Cited By : Find out who is citing a particular article
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Cited By : Find out who is citing a particular article
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Other Citation Databases Accessible to HKIEd Users
Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation
Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
Academic Search Premier
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
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Can I get the Full
Text?
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Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability
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View at Publisher redirects you to publisher web site but gives you
free Full Text ONLY IF HKIEd has subscribed to this Journal
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The Result Screen
in Details
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A Typical SCOPUS Record
To print, export , email
or create a
bibliography, click
Output
Citation information for
documents in Scopus
which have cited this
article since 1996.
Link to Full-text only if
institution has a
subscription
To set up a E-mail Alert
or subscribe to an RSS
feeds
Find related
documents
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You can Output Selected Records to Email, Printer,
Create a Reference List or Direct Export to RefWorks
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SCOPUS Records Easily Exported to RefWorks
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Create your
Bibliography
Choose output format and
Style
SCOPUS also provides its own Quick
Bibliography Builder
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SCOPUS also provides its own Quick
Bibliography Builder
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Personalization
Features
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Must register own ID and log in to take
advantage of personalization features
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With your personal SCOPUS
Login, you can:
Save your search history
Create your saved lists
Set up email keyword search alerts or
email citation alerts
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Search History
Save your Searches
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Set Search Alert (RSS / Email)
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Set Citation Alert
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Save Your List of Result
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Save List for future
reference, creating your
bibliographies etc.
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Author Identifier &
Citation Analysis
Track a Researcher’s work using Author Identifier and Citation Tracker
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Citation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond
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h-index in Scopus
Developed in 2005 by Jorge
Hirsch, a condensed-matter
physicist (University of
California in San Diego) and
peace activist.
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Definition of H-Index
An author has index h if h of his papers have at least
h citations each and the other papers have no more
than h citations each.
For example
The h index for Mark Bray
Considers Scopus articles published after 1996
=4
(4 out of 18 documents have each been cited at least 4 times)
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Properties of the h-Index
Easy to determine
Age of Author not taken into account
- Both junior and senior authors can have a high or low HIndex
Ignores the highly & poorly cited papers – ‘one-hit
wonders’
Dynamic, not a static number – can change as citations
increase, real-time in Scopus
Can be used to measure : Authors, Journals, Institutions,
Departments, Faculties, Selection of Papers etc..etc..etc
See Prof. Hirsch’s paper at :
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025
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Analyze Journal :
Journal analyzer
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Type in a journal title here
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Double click to select a journal title. A
graph will appear on the other side
showing total citations, article published,
etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could
be selected for comparison at a time
Total Citation chart shows the number of times documents from the journals were
cited in other documents during a specific year.
Articles Published chart shows the number of documents published in a journals
during a specific year.
Trend Lines chart shows the number of citations a journal has received in a year
divided by the number of articles published in the same year.
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Exercise
Let’s compare journals on “teacher
education”
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Analyze and Evaluate
Institution Output
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Affiliation Search: e.g. HKIEd
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More information about Scopus…
In 2007, Scopus Citation Data is used in
the Top 200 University Rankings in the
Times Higher Education Supplement
HKU moved up from 33 to 18, CUHK 50 to
38, HKUST 58 to 53, City U 154 to 149
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=144
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Reasons given were :
•Scopus has less bias towards the U.S. Many Asia-Pacific
Journals are covered in Scopus.
•Scopus covers sources in languages other than English
better citation data for institutions who have high quality
research in their own language
…We have used five years of citations between 2002 and 2006 as indexed by
Scopus, a leading supplier of such data. Scopus has replaced Thomson
Scientific as supplier of citations data. We are confident that Scopus’s
coverage is at least as thorough as Thomson’s, especially in non-English
language journals…
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400068
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