e-Resources on Social Sciences:

Scopus

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      Why Scopus?

A comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Over 18,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide (90% peer reviewed journals).

42.5 million records Broadest coverage  Life Sciences (>4,300 titles)    Physical Sciences (>7,200 titles) Health Sciences (>6,800 titles) Social Sciences and Humanities (>5,300 titles) Sources:    Europe, Middle East & Africa (53%) North America (35%) Asia, Australia & Pacific (10%)  South America (2%) As a Citation Analysis Tool to evaluate:  Authors, Institutions and Journals. 2

Access via Library website: http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/index_e-resources.php

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Search Interface Scopus Search Interface 4

environmental education finds over 25,000 records 5

Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases “environmental education” reduces results to under 2,800 records 6

Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision 7

“environmental education” as KEYWORDS reduces results to 1,600 records 8

Refine the Search To Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “

Limit to”

Options (by year / document type / subject areas) Add search field 9

Refine the Search 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

39 Records Only

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Refine the Search At the Results Screens: you can also add Additional Search Terms, add Limit Fields To do search within the result list To limit the result by category, e.g. author, year … etc.

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Sort the Results At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting Order (the default order is by “Date”) 12

Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article 13

Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article 14

Can I get the Full Text?

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Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability View at Publisher redirects you to publisher web site but gives you free Full Text ONLY IF HKIEd has subscribed to this Journal 16

Record Details To export, print, email or create a bibliography, click these links Alert you via e-mail when this document is cited. You can schedule it to run daily, weekly or monthly. Setup RSS Feed to receive citation alert Find related documents 17

Output Records 18

Output Records 19

Personalization Features

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Personalization Features Must register own ID and log in to take advantage of personalization features 21

Personalization Features  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. 22

Personalization Features 2. To view saved search in “My settings” 1. Save your search 23

Edit Search Query 24

Set Search Alert (Email) A Search Alert is a saved search that you can schedule to run daily, weekly or monthly. You will receive an e-mail message with a link into Scopus to access the new results. 25

Set Search Alert (RSS) When you subscribe to a Scopus RSS feed, you will get the top 20 search results for your search delivered every day to your RSS reader. To use a Scopus RSS feed you must have an RSS reader.

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Add to My List Add the selected documents to My List 27

Add to My List Click “My list” to browse the saved records To further manage your saved list 28

Author Identifier & Citation Analysis

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Citation Analysis of an Author Citation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond 30

Citation Analysis of an Author 31

Citation Analysis of an Author To view the citation analysis of this author 32

Citation Analysis of an Author Authors are evaluated on the basis of their body of work, which has been cited by articles published from 1996 onwards in one of the 18,000 peer-reviewed journals in Scopus 33

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 Bond, Michael Harris (Considers Scopus articles published after 1996) = 18

(18 out of 70 documents have each been cited at least 18 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 h-index.

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. Details of h-index at: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025 35

Analyze Journal Using Journal Analyzer

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Journal Analyzer 37

Journal Analyzer SJR chart weighted citations per document SNIP = Source normalized impact per paper: corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fields Citations chart shows the total number of citations received by a journal in the year, considering all documents.

Documents chart shows the total number of documents published in the journal in the year.

Double click to select a journal title. A graph will appear on the other side showing citations, documents, etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could be selected for comparison at a time.

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Institution to be analyzed 40

Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Institution to be analyzed 41

Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Click to browse all documents 42

Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Select all records 43

Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output 44

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