Scopus

Training Session

For Universitas Diponegoro

By Ujang Sanusi

Customer Consultant

ELSEVIER INDONESIA

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Elsevier is a leading Science & Health Information Provider

RESEARCH MGMT

/PROMOTION

TOOLS

CONTENT PROVISION ‘E’ CONTENT PROVISION

SEARCH & 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

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Elsevier is engaging across the

research workflow

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Exploring Literature

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Keeping up-to-

date with your

field

Searching online

scientific

literature

Managing

research articles

Reading

research

Annotating

research articles

and keeping a

record of these

Developing

hypotheses for

investigation

Reviewing

manuscripts

(peer review)

Obtaining in-

depth knowledge

on a subject

Time (in hours): Approximately how much time last week did you spend on the following activities?

1. Reading research

2. Keeping up-to-date with your field

3. Searching online scientific literature

4. Obtaining in-depth knowledge on a subject

The researchers’

challenge is in

these use cases

Source: Researcher Behaviour, June 2014, Customer Insights

Scopus® - the World’s largest Abstract & Citation Database

61 million records from 22,245 active

serial titles 120,000 books

3,715 active Gold Open Access Journals

21.4 pre 1996 records

35.8M post 1995 records

CONFERENCES

90K events

7.3M records (12%)

Conf. expansion (2005

– 2013):

1,017 conferences

6,022 conf. events

410K conf. papers

5M citations

Mainly Engineering and

Physical Sciences

BOOKS

5131book series

- 30K Volumes

- 1.2M items

86,969 books

- 709K items

Books expansion:

120K books by 2015

- Focus on Social

Sciences and A&H

PATENTS

24M patents

from 5 major

patent offices:

• UK

• US

• Japan

• Europe

• World

JOURNALS

22,025 peer-reviewed journals

361 trade journals

• Full metadata, abstracts and cited

references (references for post-

1995 only)

• >2,800 Gold Open Access titles

• Articles in Press for >5,100 Titles

• Going back to 1823

• Funding data from

acknowledgements

• Content from > 5,000 publishers

• Titles from 105 different countries in

all geographical regions

• 40 “local” languages covered

Physical

Sciences

7,456

Health

Sciences

6,834

Social

Sciences

8,086

Life

Sciences

4,509

QS and THE are not alone: More than 3500 organizations, including more

than 150 research organizations, rely on Scopus data

MD Anderson

Kiel

University

Gazi

University

Queen’s

University

Belfast

Ural Federal

University

CAPES Brazil

UK BIS

ERA 2014

UK REF

Nigerian

Government

ISTIC

NRF-Korea

FCT Portugal

Danish BFI

Germany IFQ

Italy ANVUR

IISER

STINTMichigan Corporate

Relations Network

ReachNC

Russian Foundation

of Basic Research

TCI -

Thailand

Rankings:

NSF

European Commission & ERC

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Let’s Start with scopus.com

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www.scopus.com

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1. Scopus Registration & Login

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1. Utilize Alert system

Creating search alert

Creating document citation

Creating Authors Citation alert

2. Saving search history

3. Save list of documents or group authors

4. Customize your personal Scopus session

Why Registration

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Registration & Login

Click Login

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Registration & Login

Click to register

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Registration & Login

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Registration

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Login

Your name displayed

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2. Searching for Documents

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Search Documents

Click here everytime you

want to go to Search form

back from any Scopus page

Document Search form

guides you doing search on

your research topic Select which field you wish to

search

Select the year of publication

(range)

Select Document type

Specify the subject area in

which the document must be

categorized

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Not case-sensitive (lowercase or uppercase are

same)

Singular or plural will search both

US English and UK English will search both

(Color & Colour, centre and center, etc.)

Searching with Phrase (more than 1 word)

Quote “xxxxx”Fuzzy Search (singular, plural,

UK/US, ignore symbol)

Curly bracket {xxxx}Exact match (100% same),

symbol are used

Example “Heart Attack” and {Heart Attack}

Search Term Rule

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Wildcard

* e.g. Toxi*Toxid, Toxin,Toxicity etc.

? e.g. Toxi?Toxid and Toxin, not toxicity

Logical operator

OR

AND

AND NOT

Search Term Rule

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3. Searching for Authors

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• Find and track an author’s publication & review author details

Search Authors

Click Author Search

You can search by ORCID

Search by author name

Or Afiliation

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Example Search Author

Click here

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Search Author

The author

His publications

His institution, city & country

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Search Author

View last titleClick to see the detail of

author page

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Search Author

List of the author’s most

recent documents

You can sort based on date

or cited by count

Review the abtract

View documents which have

cited the author…

Click here

View co-author informations

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Cited documents to the author

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Co-author information

View co-author overview

Click here

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Co-author overview

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Analyze Author Output

Click here

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Analyze author output

Citation by year

List and graph

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Author’s h-index

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Author history

View the references has used by

the author, publication range,

source history, related affilialions

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Alert & follow the author

You can set alert to be notified

when the author’s documents are

cited by other documents

You can set alert to be notified

when the author publish new

documents

Thank You

Ujang Sanusi

Elsevier – Research Solutions

Email : u.sanusi@elsevier.com