1 Scopus as an Editor’s Workflow Tool Andy Teo Account Manager, Elsevier Science & Technology...

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Scopus as an Editor’s Workflow Tool

Andy TeoAccount Manager, Elsevier Science & Technologya.teo@elsevier.com17 Feb 2011

www.scopus.com

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Focused web

information

Academic library

sources

18,000 titles

5,000 publishers

STM & Social sciences

World’s Largest

Abstract & Citation

Database

15% Elsevier sources

85% other publishers

359 million

scholarly

Web items,

E-prints,

theses,

Dissertations,

patents

Fastest route to FullText

Scopus at a glance

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Scopus: the Broadest of STM and Social Sciences Information

5,3005,3005,3005,3004,3004,3004,3004,3007,2007,2007,2007,2006,8006,8006,8006,800

Health

(100% Medline)

Chemistry

Physics

Engineering

Biological

Agricultural

Environmental

Social Sciences

Psychology

Economics

> 5,000 publishers> 5,000 publishers

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Geographical Coverage

• Scopus covers journals from all geographical regions, including non-English titles (with English abstracts)

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http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/search_result.pl

WoS covers 57% of Scopus

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How can Scopus assist the editor?

• Find authors and potential board members

• Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest

• Review performance of journals

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Potential Board Members

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How can Scopus assist the editor?

• Find authors and potential board members

• Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest

• Review performance of journals

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Find Reviewers

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Potential conflict of interest

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How can Scopus assist the editor?

• Find authors and potential board members

• Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest

• Review performance of journals

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Metrics for Journal Evaluation (www.journalmetrics.com)

Source-Normalized Impact per Paper – SNIP• Developed by Henk Moed, CWTS, University of Leiden

• Main feature: contextual citation impact • Part 1 – evens out differences in likelihood of citation (i.e. different behaviours)• Part 2 – evens out differences in database coverage in subject fields

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Compare up to 10 journals going back to

1996

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How can Scopus assist the editor?

In summary, we covered:

• Find authors and potential board members

• Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest

• Review performance of journals

But…WHY use SciVerse Scopus?

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Philippines journals indexed in Scopus as at Oct 2010

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Thank You

Questions & Answers

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