Transcript Bibliometrics toolkit Scopus • Scopus was launched by Elsevier in 2004 • The suite of citation analysis tools provided within Scopus is called.

Bibliometrics toolkit
Scopus
• Scopus was launched by Elsevier in 2004
• The suite of citation analysis tools provided within Scopus is called Research Performance Management – RPM
• Scopus offers Live Chat to support users of the product
• There are over 18,000 journal titles indexed in the product
Authors
Citation Overview
Use the tools provided to select one author or a group of
authors – you can filter by affiliation, country and subject
area and pick variant forms of an author name. This is a
strong feature of the product, providing assistance in
isolating a set of the correct research outputs, particularly
where names are common.
Key facts
Key facts
• The database contains over 30
million citations
• Citations are only indexed from
publications from 1996 which is a
disadvantage in comparison to
the ISI suite of products
• The main calculations such as
author h-index are also only
worked out cited material from
1996 on, cites to earlier items
are discarded before calculating
• There are 18,000+ peer
reviewed titles in Scopus - a lot
more than other data sources
and this makes the product
better for some fields such as
Engineering
• The range of materials included
is said to be better for
humanities and in 2009 a
significant increase in such titles
took place
Journal Analyzer
Pick the Analytics tab to use Journal Analyzer to select a
journal title or build up a group of titles. The analysis
includes both graphs and tabular displays of:
• Number of articles published per year in the title(s) from
1996 to date
• Number of citations in total to the articles per year
• Number of articles per year not cited, as a percentage
• Trend line showing the average number of citations per
paper every year
•Two key metrics are provided: SJR which weights according to
impact of the citing journal and SNIP which is a complex
attempt to normalise based on citing depth and speed of
citation in the discipline, plus allowing for the amount of
material in the source dataset. SNIP is designed to allow crossdiscipline comparison, normally not possibly with these
metrics
• Selecting a number of titles allows you to see the relative
performance of each, best with the graph display
• Unlike JCR, this analyser does not provide ranked lists of
journals for your field. However, the free SCImago website
uses the Scopus data set to provide this type of ranked listing
comparable to the ISI JCR product http://www.scimagojr.com/
• Open Access titles,
proceedings, web pages, patents,
book series are all included
• Google Scholar with the
Publish or Perish software
application
The Citation Overview shows:
• The number of documents cited in any year range 1996current
• The pattern of citation by year and total cites
• Self-citations can be removed if wished
• The citing documents can be viewed – however unlike ISI
there is no analysis offered by geography, discipline or
document type
• The author(s) h-index is provided, based on publications
1996 onwards. For example, there may be 16 documents
found that are cited but the h-index is calculated only on the
12 published from 1996
• Graphs are provided for the h-index, publication count and
citation count
Journals
• There is more European
content and it does include more
languages other than English
than ISI – 60% of coverage is
outside the USA
Main alternative citation data
sources for comparison
• Thomson Reuters ISI product
suite including Web of Science
and Journal Citation Reports
Then click on View Citation Overview to create a sumary of
the selected author or group of authors.
Articles
• Each document returned in a search has an indication
of the number of citations to it found in Scopus
The citing documents can be viewed in turn as a list if
desired.
• Or, for any particular article in the set, citation tracker
can be used to get a more detailed analysis of the
citations by year for that item - as well as viewing the
citing articles.
• Subject specialist databases
with citation information,
available in some fields - Life
Sciences get better coveriage in
Medline for example, Computer
Science in CiteseerX or ACM
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Last edited: 17 Apr 2011