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What is Scopus?

SCOPUS and scival Evaluation and Promotion of Ukrainian research results Piotr Gołkiewicz Product Sales Manager, Central and Eastern Europe KIEV, 3 1 January 2014. What is Scopus?. The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources.

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What is Scopus?

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  1. SCOPUS and scivalEvaluation and Promotion of Ukrainian research resultsPiotr GołkiewiczProduct Sales Manager, Central and Eastern Europe KIEV, 31 January 2014

  2. What is Scopus? The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. More than 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers worldwide Over 50million records, 24million patents from 5 patent offices worldwide Most comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. Modern „Discovery tools” – Author and Affiliation search, Author Analyzer, Journal Analyzer, Citations Tracking etc

  3. Example of users of Scopus data

  4. Why Scopus? • Track Research trends – focus your resources • FIND (GET LINK) TO FULL TEXT • Find best journals to publish – target your audience • Make connections – find experts to collaborate with – get cited • Make yourself more visible – get more citations • Get data for evaluations (internal, external, rankings etc.) • Get data for grant applications AND • Make your journals more visible - get indexed in Scopus

  5. Scopus helps grow those research strengths furthersupporting the research workflow in an international context

  6. www.jisc-adat.com August, 2013 Broader coverage than nearest peer 19809 12311 8432 11377 934 “The Scopus surplus”

  7. Scopus selection criteria a combinationof quantitative and qualitative measures Eligibility • Peer-review • English abstracts • Regular publication • Statement on Publication ethics 53 Ukrainian journals in Scopus – 27 active http://info.scopus.com

  8. Nearest competitor Scopus Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape Breadth of coverage acrossgeographical areas In Thousands l

  9. What about Books? • Elsevier is planning to cover Books • Currently covering Book series • 75.000 books will be covered by 2015 • Mainly Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

  10. Easily find results and more...

  11. Scopus provides quick overview: Characteristics of Ukrainian output

  12. Top publishing Ukrainian institutions

  13. Scopus - affiliation profiling Affiliation details include the affiliation ID, name variations, address information, research areas, documents published, sources the organization has published in, and collaborating affiliations.

  14. Scopus- author search results page • Results are listed in descending order by default. • Change the sorting order by selecting an option from the ‘sort by’ window The Author’s name links to the ‘Author Details page

  15. Scopus: author details page • The ‘Author details page gives links to (1) the author’s documents; (2) documents which are referenced by the author; (3) documents that have cited the author; (4) the Author details pages of all co-authors; (5) the results of searching the web using the author name • Use the ‘Find potential author matches’ for profiles which may be associated

  16. Citations – the measure of quality

  17. Scopus - citation tracker You can include up to 5000 documents in a CitationTracker. If you select more than 5000 documents only the first 5000 are included in the CitationTracker

  18. H-index A scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited by others at least h times cited 13 times or more 13 papers

  19. Scopus AnalyticsSelect the journal(s) you want to evaluate

  20. Fact based Research management SciVal alpha in a nutshell

  21. Solution to your strategic planning challenges Performance Overview Module Benchmarking Module Collaboration Analysis Module Comprehensive summaries of any selected entity for 360 degree performance evaluation Compare research groups using selection of 20+ metrics for in-depth analysis Identify and analyse existing and potential collaboration opportunities What? • At-a-glance, standardized reports • Access to all Spotlight maps • Complete flexibility to combine any selection of metrics and research groups • Visualized on Google maps • Ranking of institutes and authors with indicators How?

  22. Piotr Golkiewicz Product Sales Manager for Central and Eastern Europe p.golkiewicz@elsevier.com ThankYou!

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