Scopus

1. Scopus Massimiliano CarloniAccount Managerm.carloni@elsevier.com

2. What is Scopus? To provide superior support of the literature research process by finding relevant results fast and investigating research relationships through citation information • Scopus is the world’s biggest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. • In development since 2002, Scopus was launched in November 2004 • Built in collaboration with 30 institutes world-wide • Tested by 300+ researchers • Content policy defined by independent Content Selection Committee and Advisory Board (http://info.scopus.com/detail/involved/)

3. Development in partnership • Development in close partnership with librarians and researchers: • Development Partner network - 25 participating institutions • Content Selection & Advisory Board - 30 members • We aim to offer the perfect fit with the library’s vision • 50+ visits to libraries by development team in past 12 months • We closely research the workflow of the end-user and organise multiple iterations with researchers to test and re-test prototypes • 400+ hours of user testing per year To ensure that Scopus really solves the problems librarians and researchers face on a daily basis!

4. Content Coverage • 36 million records, abstracts going back to 1966 • 18 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references) • 18 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823 • 300 million references • 16500+ journals from 4000+ editors • (including articles-in-press from Elsevier, Springer and Kluwer) • In addition to traditional scientific and academic journals, Scopus covers: • 1200 Open Access journals • 3.6mio Conference Papers • 650 Trade Publications • 315 Book Series • Medline (100% coverage) • 430 million scientific web pages • 23 million patents from 5 Patent Offices

5. Content Coverage (archives) Scopus also includes the historical material published by: • American Chemical Society (back to 1879), • Springer archive (back to 1869) • Elsevier (back to 1823), • Institute of Physics (back to 1874), • American Physical Society (back to 1893), • American Institute of Physics (back to 1939), • Royal Society of Chemistry (back to 1841) and • The journals Nature and Science. Coverage is over 99% complete as of 1996 (on issue level). For an overview of all titles and its coverage see www.info.scopus.com/docs/title_list.xls

6. Content Coverage • Items • 36 million records • +1.5 million per year • Cited References • 13 years • + 25 million each year • Currency • Updated daily 18 million pre-1996 1823 ( Lancet) 1996 2009 16,500 current journal sources

7. 17,850 Unique titles 4,310 4,140 7,110 6,790 Subject Coverage • Health Sc. • (100% Medline) • Nursing • Dentistry • … • Social Sc. • Psychology • Economics • Business • … • Physical Sc. • Chemistry • Physics • Engineering • … • Life Sciences • Neurosc. • Pharmacol. • Biology • … De Moya (Scientometrics 2007): “The coverage provided by Scopus is balanced in terms of subject areas when compared with Ulrich’s core” Recently added (June 2009) 1300 titles in Arts & Humanities

8. Art & Humanities Add-on 17.850 16.450

9. Geographical Coverage Scopus covers journals from all geographical regions, including non-English titles (with English abstracts)

10. 7700 5440 1460 250 350 230 Geographical Coverage (status 1st Feb 2009) More Local Content 850

11. 5000 2500 • Nearest Competitor • Scopus 0 Coverage for discipline 10000 vs 17850 titles Engineering & environmental Sciences Mathematics, Information& Communication Sciences Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences Biomedical & Clinical Research Humanities & creative arts Social, Behavioural & Economic Sciences Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Public and Allied Health and Health Services

12. SUMMARY • Scopus is the broadest source of STM and Social Science publications • Strong regional coverage compensates for traditional English language/North American bias of other citation services. • Output and citation yields are higher than comparable services, offering opportunities for fairer global recognition of research performance (i.e. Cape Town University) • Strong adoption by research community (>2,000 institutions worldwide, 32% of the Top European) and acceptance of Scopus as source for performance analysis (QS-THES)

13. Scopus functionalities • Create a Personal Profile • Browse through sources • Different options of search • Refine results box • Managing results: • Output options: • Export • Print • Email • Create a bibliography

14. Create a Personal Profile • Although Scopus uses IP verification you can get the best out of it and save a lot of research time by creating your own Personal Profile. • Your Personal Profile allows you to: • Save searches for later references • Create search alerts • Create citation alerts to specific articles • Save lists of selected articles • Save your own groups of author names • Request corrections to your Author Profile

15. Enter your name and email address Choose your own Password Click on : SUBMIT

16. Author Identifier functionality Now that you have your own Username, you can login. An email is also sent to you with your Username & Password.

17. After you log in, you can access all your personal information by clicking on MY PROFILE

18. Browse through the sources Search for specific titles Browse through lists of journals displayed by subject , source type or alphabetical order

19. Browse through the sources Specific information about this title and its coverage in Scopus Number of articles from this title indexed by Scopus in each year Links to all indexed articles published that year

20. Different options of search: • Basic search: • recommendable for most users • Advanced search: • for librarians and users experienced with complex query building • Author search: • for information about specific authors, their articles and citations • Affiliation search: • for the output of specific institutions (later on this presentation)

21. Basic search: Enter the search terms and combine them with Boolean operators. Choose the field where the term must be searched. The default fields are: title, abstract and keywords Limit your search by publication year, discipline or type of content

22. Advanced search: for experienced users Details on all specific codes and truncation List of Boolean and proximity operators + codes (or field names) to be added to your queries . Click 2x to add

23. Refine results box Limit to or exclude results based on lists of Source titles, Author names, Year, Document Type, Subject area, Keywords or Language If needed, click on MORE to expand these lists

24. Managing results: • save search, • create search alert, • sort results • add to list • view references and citations for selected results • Output options • Download articles in PDF

25. Save the search or create a search alert Select results and add them to a temporary list Sort results per relevance, author names, year or citations received

26. Saving a list of results

27. Viewing references and citations for selected results:

29. Output options: • Export • Print • Email • Create a bibliography

30. Choose between formats: Refworks, RIS, ASCII and .csv Choose what to export

31. Choose among 10 different bibliography styles

32. Downloading PDFs (full-text articles)

33. Select PDF naming convention or create or your own Choose where to save the PDF files on your computer

34. This bar shows the progress of the downloads The titles link to the PDF files on your computer

35. Author Identifier: The problem • How to distinguish between an author’s articles and those of another author sharing the same name? • How to group an author’s articles together when his or her name has been recorded in different ways? (e.g. Stambrook, P and Stambrook, P.J.) • With other databases, these problems can result in retrieving incomplete or inaccurate results. • Scopus Author Identifier was developed to tackle this problem.

36. Solving the problem • Scopus tackles these problems by analyzing the data available in all publication records such as… • Author Names • Affiliation • Co-authors • Self citations • Source title • Subject area • …and using this data to group all articles that belong to a specific author.

37. How does it work? 1-Use the Author Search to find an author Enter affiliation and select subject area in order to limit the number of results

38. From the results page, select the most complete profile ( higher # of articles) and click on DETAILS.

39. Author Profiles • Every author with more than 1 article in Scopus has an Author Profile. • The profile shows valuable information about the author, such as: • Variations of his names already grouped together, • Most recent affiliation • Number of articles on Scopus and the citations that hose articles received • List of co-authors • Author’s H Index • The feedback button allows authors to group profiles together and ask for corrections.

40. Click here to start grouping profiles together

41. Select other variations to be grouped together and click on Group with Author

42. Now that the profile is complete you can save this group and ask for corrections using the feedback button

44. 3) Need to evaluate research output • Administrators, researchers and librarians need to evaluate research output to assess the quality of articles, authors, institutions, etc. • What administrators, researchers and librarians are saying: • “I need to evaluate an job applicant’s most recent publications.” • “I need to quantitatively assess the impact of research on society.” • “I need to track hot trends in my research discipline.” • “I need to include accurate output measures in my grant application.” • “I need to benchmark an institution, locally and globally.” • Thus, we aim to provide representative content, accurate data and meaningful tools to aid evaluation of research output

45. How has Scopus addressed this need? A suite of tools to aid evaluation of research output • The Scopus Citation Tracker • Analyze article-level data to more easily identify and follow trends, determine influence of an author or a research group. • A visual, at-a-glance overview for tracking citation patterns • WebCites and PatentCites • Showing the influence of research beyond primary journals • Inclusion of h-index and visualizations • Pre-calculated metric expressing impact of research articles and graphs allowing full transparency

46. Citation Tracker

47. Citation Tracker: what is it? • Real-time calculation of citations overview for: • A selection of articles • A selection of articles or all the articles by one specific author • All articles published by one specific journal for a given year • All citation counts and links to articles are displayed on the same screen • Easy to print and export

48. Citation Tracker: possible applications: • Grant application for research groups • Recruitment • Evaluation of a university, department or research group’s scientific output • Choosing a mentor for a master or PhD program • It can be added to author’s CV or homepage

49. How to use it: Select the articles to be analyzed: • Run a keyword/author/affiliation search and select the articles from results, or • Search/browse for the journal you want to analyze • From the results list or journal page, click on: • Citation Tracker Adjust the parameters if necessary ( date range, exclude self citations, sort articles by date/citations) and click on • You can also save this list of articles for future reference and print or export the Citation Overview

50. Select results from a keyword search: