Introduction to

Martin Snelling

October 2010

Aims

• At the end of the session, you should be able to;– Carry out searches on Scopus, using Author

and keywords, and combinations– Refine research results– Export results to Endnote– Carry out a citation search– Display the H-index for an author

Programme

• Presentation

• Questions

• Practical exercises

• Evaluation

Facts and Figures

• Scopus has been available since 1996

• Earliest records date back to 1823

• 18,000+ journal titles indexed

• 38,000,000+ records (Oct 2009)

• 1,000 journal titles added p.a.

• Articles-in-press from 3,000 journals

• Social Science collection is growing

Coverage

• 2500 journals back to vol 1, iss 1• 19 million records pre-1996• Complete archives from;

– Springer/Kluwer– American Physical Society– American Institute of Physics– Institute of Physics– Royal Soc of Chemistry– Nature, Science, Lancet – All Elsevier publications

Access

• Through the library database pages

• Off-campus (needs central username/password)

• VPN

• Mobile phone app

Features • Basic and advanced search mode• Author search• Citation searching• Patent information• Simultaneous Web search (SCIRUS)• Full text document download manager• Alerting service• On line tutorials• Continuous improvement

Basic Search screen

Extra search fields

Results screen

Results screen

Results in tabs

Results in tabs

Results screen

Most common

titles

Results screen

Most prolific authors

Most prolific authors

Advanced Search option

• Allows for much more precise searching

• Boolean logic – And, Or, Not

• Greater number of search terms can be used

• Database will offer suggestions as you type

Advanced search screen

Author search

Author search - results

Author information

Individual research performance

H Index

• Gives a rough evaluation of an author’s research output

• Only papers published since 1996 count

• Can be represented graphically

• Overview of author’s publication history

• Overview of citation activity over time

• New tool is the “author evaluator”

H Index Graph

Articles published over time

Citations over time

Citation tracking

• Track articles that have been cited elsewhere– Author tracking– Journal tracking

• Can search for all articles cited in a paper• Search for all papers citing a particular

article• Search for all articles cited by an author

Scopus Journal Analyzer

• Select any ten journals in a subject area

• Identify which are the most influential

• Get the best visibility for your work

• Information updated every two months

• http://info.scopus.com/News/content/latest

Download Manager

• Helps retrieve full-text articles from results

• Saves PDF of text to your computer

• Can manage up to 50 documents at a time

• Gives each PDF a meaningful file name (based on article title)

• Operates from Results screen

Downloading Full text

Saving PDFs of Full text

Downloading to Bibliographic software

• Scopus records can be instantly downloaded to…

• Endnote/EndnoteWeb

• Reference manager

• Refworks

• MS Excel, MS Access

Recap

• Best coverage for any database – not just Science & technology

• 2500 journals indexed to vol 1, iss 1• Best coverage for European, Far east• Three sets of results for each search• Citation analysis/research performance• Downloads to bibliographic software• Likely to be chosen for the Research Excellence

Framework

Questions?