Welcome to Scopus Training

Gali HaleviM.L.S. ; PhD

Account Development Manager(631) 673 2809

g.halevi@elsevier.com

• Scopus is the largest multidisciplinary abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature, quality web sources, patents and more.

• Updated daily!

• Scopus is a quick, easy and comprehensive resource that support s research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

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What Does Scopus Cover?

Over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000international publishers

Including the coverage of:

• 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open

Access journals)

• 600 trade publications

• 350 book series

• Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million

conference papers)

40 million records, of which:

• 20 million records going back to 1996 seeking to capture complete metadata (78% include references)

• 20 million pre-1996 records captured without references go back as far as 1823.

• "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals

Integration of the scientific web in its search results, with:

• 435 million scientific web pages

• 23 million patents from 5 patent offices (US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and UK Intellectual Property Office)

• Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories, digital archives and special subject collections made individually searchable via Selected Sources tab.

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Searching Scopus

Search Options & Refinements

Search Forms: • Quick• Advanced Search • Author• Affiliation

Search Refinements

Refinement Categories: • Source Title• Author• Affiliation• Year• Subject Area• Key words

Keywords and Index Terms

• Scopus manually adds index terms for 80% of the titles included in Scopus.

• A team of professional indexers assigns index terms to records according to the following controlled vocabularies:

• Geobase Subject Index (geology, geography, earth and environmental science)

• MeSH (life sciences & health science)

• FLX terms, WTA terms (fluid sciences & textile sciences)

• Regional Index (geology, geography, earth and environmental science)

• Species Index (biology, life sciences)

• EI thesaurus (engineering, technology, physical sciences)

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Analysis Tools

The Author Identifier & Evaluator

Enhanced Author searching with increased accuracy to help users reach

author-specific information more quickly and efficiently.

Challenges:• Many authors share the same name.

• Author names can vary in the way they are formatted.

Solutions:• Author Identifier distinguishes between these author names, it

gives each author a separate ID and groups together all the documents written by that author.

• The Author Identifier matches the documents of this author and groups these name variants together so that one author is identified with their specific papers.

How Does the Author Identifier Work?

Scopus uses a sophisticated algorithm which recognizes authors based on various data elements associated

with the article:

Name Variants

Subject Area

Affiliation/s

Publications History

Co-Author/s

Solving Ambiguity and Missing Documents

• If there isn't sufficient information for the Author Identifier to accurately match a name to documents, group “unmatched authors” to the profile.

• Use the feedback link on the author result page and email any corrections to the Scopus team. These will be reviewed and, if appropriate, updated.

• Once the Scopus team receives the information, they will review and verify the request/ feedback. Where the request is correct the Scopus team will endeavor to make the change, whether it be in the underlying data or in the matching algorithm.

Affiliation Identifier

A time saving solution that identifies and groups an organization’s complete body of work .

• Scopus Affiliation Identifier provides an organizational matching capability that includes the entire database of over 16,000 peer reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers.

• The information supplied in the document is analyzed by the knowledge base and the algorithm to determine the logical placement of the document.

• The knowledge base stores affiliation name and address information along with evidential information to disambiguate affiliations

Changing Affiliation Clusters / Names

Scopus users can make the following requests:

• Permanent merging of profiles or author instances within an affiliation profile.

• Splitting (removal) of incorrectly sorted articles in an affiliation profile.

• Correction of incorrect profile name or address details

Such requests must come from reliable sources and must be validated

against Scopus technical system conditions.

To request a change, select the Feedback button to report or provide feedback to Scopus about the current Affiliation Details

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Metrics & Measurements in Scopus

h-Index

The index is a Performance Measurement Tool for Scientific Authors

(similar idea to journal impact factors but for individuals)

Established by Jorge Hirsch at UC San Diego

who stated that:

“A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np- h) papers

have no more than h citations each.”

Source: Hirsch, J. E. (2005, September 29). An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Retrieved from:

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025

What is the h-index?

• Rates a scientist’s performance based on their career publications, as measured by the lifetime number of citations each article receives.

• Depends on both quantity (number of publications) and quality (number of citations) of a scientist’s publications.

• The h-index lists all publications in descending order by the number citations received to date.

• The h-index is the highest number of their papers, h, that have each received at least h citations.

How is the h-index different from the Impact Factor?

• The main difference is that the h-index refers to the performance of an individual scientist. The Impact Factor refers to the average performance of all articles in a journal.

• The h-index is based on lifetime citations received by a scientist’s articles. The Impact Factor is based on only 2-year’s worth of citations.

• Both rankings measure the average performance, of an individual scientist or a journal. Some articles will receive many more citations, and some fewer, than the ranking figure.

Advantages & Disadvantages of the h-index

Advantages:

• Takes into accounts both productivity and quality of a scientist’s publications, and so can distinguish between truly influential scientists, those who just publish many papers, and one-shot wonders.

• Insensitive to a set of uncited or lowly cited papers, so that the impact of a scientist’s high quality output is not diluted by papers that have performed poorly for whatever reason.

• Does not necessarily penalise a scientist with a short career, since the h-index can be similar for scientists with different numbers of papers.

Advantages & Disadvantages of the h-index

Disadvantages:

• Insensitive to one or several very highly cited papers.

• h-index is not independent of time, since a scientist’s h-index can never be greater than the number of papers they have published in their career.

• A high h-index is not always a reliable indicator of high personal achievement.

• The h-index cannot decrease with time, and so cannot be used to detect declining research output or retirement.

• The h-index differs between fields, depending on number of references in a typical paper

Why is Citations Tracking Important?

• Supports grant proposals.

• Indicator of productivity, influence, and research results acceptance.

• Citation Tracker allows users to “drill down” further and perform real-time analysis on an article level.

• Scopus Citation Tracker supports a detailed level of analysis across all the data in Scopus.

• Using the Citation Overview users can either get an at-a-glance comparison from the citation overview or export results to perform more in-depth analyses.

Journals Metrics

• The Scopus Journal Analyzer provides a quick,easy and transparent view of journal performance, now enriched with two journal metrics - SJR and SNIP.

• Using citations from nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000 international publishers, the Scopus Journal Analyzer gives editors, publishing teams, researchers and librarians quick, easy access to a transparent and objective overview of the journal landscape going back to 1996.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

SJR is a measure of the scientific prestige of scholarly sources: value of weighted citations per document.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

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SciVerse Scopus Mobile

The SciVerse Scopus iPhone app is available at the Apple store!

• Find articles

• Create alerts

• Make notes

• Share links instantly

Great for when you are traveling or attending a conference – you don’t have to power up the desktop in order to find citations or stay current with the latest articles.

Use it on the Go

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