OVERVIEW OF SCOPUS & HOW TO GET

YOUR JOURNAL INDEXED IN SCOPUS

Ng HuiLing

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RESEARCH MGMT

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CONTENT PROVISION ‘E’ CONTENT PROVISIONSEARCH & DISCOVERY

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Niels Bohr Physics

Louis Pasteur

(Chemistry)

Alexander Fleming

Medicine

Albert Einstein Physics

George F. Smoot Physics

Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry

Craig C Mello Medicine

John C. Mather Physics

A researcher reads > 300 articles per year

42% regarded as ‘important’

3.7 Hrs spent

SEARCHING for

articles per week

5.6 Hrs spent

READING articles per

week

6 articles read

per week

Researchers spend an average

10 hours per week searching

for and reading articles

….of which, 3.5 hours is spent searching for research articles and 5.5 hours reading.• Researchers in Chemistry and Life

Science spend longer than average searching for articles and chemists spend longer reading

• Younger researchers spend > 4hrs a week searching.

• Researchers from China spend longer searching (six hours) and reading (nine hours) articles than any other country.

n=4,225

• A researcher typically reads six articles per week.

• Chemists read nine per week. Mathematicians

read four articles per week.

• China-based researchers read one more than

average per week (7 articles).

• After searching and reading for 10 hrs per week

only 42% of the papers read are considered

important.

Scopus is designed to accelerate the literature research process

1) What’s the best journal for my

research?

2) Related interdisciplinary, global, research?

3) Who is citing my work?

4) What’s the trend - is this a growing or declining field?

5) Who else is working on this in

my country or elsewhere in the

world?

5,000 publishers

Global coverage

All disciplines

360 book series

20,500 journals

69% agree that Scopus saves them time in the research process

Broadest source for research answers

19,452Peer reviewed journals

407Trade journals

361Book series

A rich and extended coverage including

21.2M pre-1996 records 29M post-1995 records>50M records

64k pre-1996 conf events 5M total conference records (10%)

844k book items

Content from more than 5,000 publishers

“Articles in Press” from more than 3,750 titles

Abstracts going back to 1823

40 languages covered

380 m integrated scientific websites

24 Million Patents

20,470active titles

249Conf. series

Total average processing time: 5 days

Breadth of coverage across subject areas

More than 19,500 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

Health Sciences 6,300

• (100% Medline)

• Nursing

• Dentistry

• etc.,

Social Sciences 6,350

• Psychology

• Economics

• Business

• A&H

• etc.,

Life Sciences 4,050

• Neuroscience

• Pharmacology

• Biology

• etc.,

Physical Sciences 6,600

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Engineering

• etc.,

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Number of documents in Scopuswith South East Asian country affiliation in 2008 – 2012

Active titles in Scopus:

Singapore: 80Malaysia: 45Thailand: 26Philippines: 12Indonesia: 12Vietnam: 0

PhilippinesIndonesia

VietnamMalaysia

ThailandSingapore

Breadth of coverage SE Asia

More expansive coverage does not mean

lower standards

Titles are selected by

the independent

Content Selection &

Advisory Board (CSAB)

Focus on quality through selection by independent CSAB,

because:

•Provide accurate and relevant search results for users

•No dilution of search results by irrelevant or low quality content

•Support that Scopus is recognized as authoritative

•Support confidence that Scopus is “reflecting the truth”

•Assurance that titles selected by Scopus meet the highest ethical standards

Scopus title evaluation process

Publisher

Suggest title

Check

minimum criteria “Enrich” titles

Review titles

CSAB

External

reviewer

and make decision

Titles processed via the online Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP)

Scopus selection criteria

Journal

policy

• Convincing editorial concept/policy• Level of peer-review• Diversity in geographic distribution of editors• Diversity in geographic distribution of authors

Quality of

content

• Academic contribution to the field• Clarity of abstracts• Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope• Readability of articles

Journal

standing

• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus• Editor standing

Regularity • No delay in publication schedule

Online

availability

• Content available online• English-language journal home page• Quality of home page

Minimum criteria

• Peer-review

• English abstracts

• Regular publication

• References in Roman script

• Publication ethics statement

titlesuggestion@scopus.com

Title suggestions per country All title suggestions received in 2012

2,820 titles suggested in 2012 of which 1,020 acceptable for review

Titles reviewed

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List of Indonesia Journals in Scopus

Journal Title Publisher Status

Acta medica Indonesiana Indonesian Society of Internal Medicine Active

BiotropiaSoutheast Asian Regional Centre for Tropical Biology (SEAMEO BIOTROP) Active

Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis Diponegoro University Active

Critical Care and Shock Indonesian Society of Critical Care Medicine Active

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business Universitas Gadjah Mada Active

Indonesian Journal of ChemistryDepartment of Chemistry, Gadjah MadaUniversity Active

International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics

The School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung Active

ITB Journal of Engineering Science Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) ActiveITB Journal of Information and Communication Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Active

ITB Journal of ScienceInstitute for Research and Community Services, Institut Teknologi Bandung Active

Nutrition Bulletin Persatuan Ahli Gizi Indonesia Active36th Annual Indonesian Petroleum Association Convention [IPA] (Jakarta, Indonesia, 5/23-25/2012) Proceedings Active

Indonesian Journal of Geography Gadjah Mada University Inactive

Indonesian Quarterly Centre for Strategic and International Studies Inactive

Scopus Book Coverage Expansion

(for non serial book publications)

More accurate author profiles

Improved coverage in A&H

Better discoverability of book content

Impact measurement for books

Indexing Book Series in Scopus

Book series that meet the following minimum criteria, can be reviewed for

Scopus coverage:

– Publish peer reviewed content

– Serial publication (i.e. have an ISSN)

– English language abstracts

– References in Roman script

– A publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

More information on the selection process and selection criteria:

http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/content-selection

List of titles covered by Scopus, including book series:

http://www.info.sciverse.com/documents/files/scopus-

training/resourcelibrary/xls/title_list.xlsx

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Type of books

Scopus will cover scholarly books that represent fully referenced, original research or literature reviews.

In Scope:

Monograph: An academic book on a small area of learning; also: a written account of a single thing.

Edited Volume: Edited books, monographs or short series of volumes consisting of contributions from a number of authors.

Major Reference Work: A book that contains useful facts and information (excluding dictionaries and some encyclopaedias)

Graduate level textbook: A book used in the study of a subject as, a) one containing a presentation of the principles of a subject, b) a literary work relevant to the study of a subject.

Not in Scope:

Dissertation, Undergraduate level text book, Atlas, Popular science book, Manual, Abstract book, Yearbook, Biography

Many researchers that too closely resemble one another.

Dr. Smith Dr. Smith Dr. Smith

Researchers publish under name variations.

Dr. Smith

Dr. J. Smith

Dr. James Smith

The Challenge: Scholarly Name Ambiguity

Dr. James Smith

46533489

ORCID Mission:ORCID aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers

The Solution: The ORCID Registry

Dr. Smith

Dr. J. Smith

Dr. James Smith

By issuing unique identifiers to all

researchers, ORCID aims to facilitate discovery and

evaluation for researchers, institutions, scholarly

societies and publishers.

46533489

Joins faculty or student body

Joins scholarly society

Applies for grant

Submits manuscript

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Who is using Scopus?

Low Penetration

Mid-level Penetration

High Penetration

(2012 Analysis, by customer count)

Leading research institutes use Scopus

Rank Name of Institute Country

1 University of Cambridge UK

2 Harvard University US

3 Yale University US

4 University College London UK

5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US

6 University of Oxford UK

7 Imperial College London UK

8 University of Chicago US

9 California Institute of Technology US

10 Princeton University US

11 Columbia University US

12 University of Pennsylvania US

13 Stanford University US

14 Duke University US

15 University of Michigan US

16 Cornell University US

17 Johns Hopkins University US

18 McGill University Canada

19 ETH Zurich Switzerland

20 Australian National University Australia

Scopus

Non-Scopus

Measuring Metric Methodology

The Evolution of Journal Assessmenthttp://www.journalmetrics.com/documents/Journal_Metrics_Whitepaper.pdf

Bibliometricians agree that no single metric can effectively

capture the entire spectrum of research performance

because no single metric can address all key variables

Bibliometrics = quantitative measures used to asses

research output e.g. in a subject field, country, or journal by

researchers, their institutions and their publishers

Basic Premise = Citation is a form of endorsement

http://www.journalmetrics.com/documents/Journal_Metrics_Whitepaper.pdf

www.journalmetrics.com

More accuracy, More transparency, More options, More metrics!

+ + +A journal’s raw

impact per paper

Citation potential in

its subject field

Peer reviewed

papers only

A field’s frequency

and immediacy

of citation

Database

coverage

Journal’s scope

and focusMeasured relative to

database median

SNIP: Source-normalized impact per paper

Prestige metric: Prestige transferred when a journal cites

• Citations are weighted depending on where they come from

• A journal’s prestige is shared equally between its citations

Life Sciences

journal

High impact, lots of citationsOne citation = low value

Arts & Humanities

journal

Low impact, few on citations

One citation = high value

SJR normalizes for differences in citation behaviour between subject fields

SJR: SCImago Journal Rank

More analysis using Scopus:

Journal Analyzer

Transparency: freely and publicly accessible www.journalmetrics.com

Metrics based on Scopus.com: underlying database available for transparency

Subject Field Normalization: allows for comparison independent of the journals’ subject classification. Reflects most current journal scopes, thereby taking

ongoing changes into account

3-year citation window: demonstrably the fairest compromise

Manipulation-resistant: Article type consistency. Only citations to and from articles, reviews, and conference papers are considered

Breadth of coverage: Scopus has over 20,500 sources: 19,500 journals as well as trade publications, proceedings and book series.

CONS:

More complex methodology

Do not take amount of review content into account

Advantages of SNIP & SJR

http://www.journalmetrics.com/

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