Scopus Supporting Excellence in Research and Learning

ScopusSupporting Excellence in Research and Learning

What is SciVerse?

• Integrated Content & Discovery Tools• Productivity-Enhancing Applications

What is SciVerse Scopus?

The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources.

More than 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers worldwide

Over 43 million records, 23 million patents from 5 patent offices worldwide

SciVerse Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific web in its search results with: 435 million scientific web pages

Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories, digital archives and special subject collections

Broadest source for research answers

17,800Peer reviewed journals

600Trade journals

350Book series

A rich and extended coverage including

Abstracts and citations from> 5000 publishers

3,6 Million conference papers(10% of Scopus records)

“Articles in Press” from more than3000 titles

23 Million Patents

1,200 Open Access journals 80% of all Scopus records have an

abstract Abstracts going back to 1823 40 languages covered 380 m integrated scientific websites

via Scirus.com

– Chief librarian, The Food and Agricultural

Organization of the United Nations

> 18,500titles

“It is broader in scope but also richer in different kinds of content. It is much easier to use and therefore has more immediate impact.”

Breadth of coverage acrosssubject areas

More than 18,500 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

Social Sciences 6,250

• Psychology

• Economics

• Business

• A&H

• etc.,

Health Sciences 5,950

• (100% Medline)

• Nursing

• Dentistry

• etc.,

Physical Sciences 5,300

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Engineering

• etc.,

Life Sciences 3,700

• Neuroscience

• Pharmacology

• Biology

• etc.,

Quality selection by an independent, international board

Journalpolicy

• English language abstracts available

• All cited references in Roman alphabet

• Convincing editorial concept/policy

• Level of peer-review

• Diversity in provenance of editors

• Diversity in provenance of authors

Quality ofcontent

• Academic contribution to the field

• Clarity of abstracts

• Conformity with journal’s aims & scope

• Readability of articles

Citedness• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus• Citedness of editors in Scopus

Regularity • No delay in publication schedule

Accessibility

• Content available online• English-language journal home page• Quality of home page

Eligibility

• Peer-review

• English abstracts

• Regular publication

Scopus selection criteria a combinationof quantitative and qualitative measures

Broader coverage thannearest peer

Scopus (Total: 19,981)Web of Science(Total: 11,456)

9,458 <89610,523

www.jisc-adat.com

“The Scopus surplus”

Breadth of coverage acrossgeographical areas

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Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape

In Thousands

Nearest competitor Scopus

Broader coverage means more citations

Number of citations to most cited articles in WoS and Scopus

Scopus has on average 10% more citations per article

>7,000 citations for these examples

In Thousands Nearest competitor Scopus

How do you cope with the explosion of information?

Source: Outsell, Inc “STM End-User Survey Part 1 – Scientists and Engineers” - Volume 3, June 11, 2009College Students’ Perceptions of the Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership. Dublin,OH: OCLC, 2006

Trends in the information age

Science is getting more competitive, more international andmore inter-disciplinary

What about the quality of information?

• Less time to do more research

• Researchers spend 10.7 hours per week in 2009 finding information compared to 5.5 hours in 2006

• 36% of online searches fail to find relevant information

• 89% college students use Google to search literature only 2% start from a library web site

• 84% of researchers report an increase in pressure to deliver morequickly than a year ago

– Study of the British Library and JISC

“Many young people do not find library-sponsored resources intuitive and therefore prefer to use

Google or Yahoo instead – These offer a familiar, if simplistic solution, for their study needs.”

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Scopus as a research evaluation solution...

Scopus as a research evaluation solution...

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Affiliation Identifier

Affiliation profile in Scopus

Affiliation profile in Scopus

Affiliation profile in Scopus

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Author Identifier

Author Identifier

The Hirsch index

• The Hirsch or h-index is rapidly becoming viewed as an alternative measure to the impact factor for performance evaluation.

• Published by Jorge E. Hirsch in August 2005

• Popular with academic community

• Can be calculated easily using the Citation Tracker and the search result page searching options.

H-Index in the author details page

The H-index: a definition

‘The H-index is the highest number of papers a scientist

has that have at least that number of citations.’

Nature (2005)

H-Index in the author details page

Currently in the market? – Impact Factor

Impact Factor pros • Easy to understand • Pervasive - stranglehold

Impact Factor cons • Little transparency – underlying database not publicly available – Impact Factors cannot be reconstructed

• Citation windows available are biased• 2 years favours rapidly moving fields• 5 years favours slowly moving fields

• Subject field differences*• Easy to mislead and manipulate*

(*more on next slides)

SJR and SNIP are strong metrics

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)• Prestige metric – similar to Google PageRank• Citations are weighted depending on the status of the source

they come from• Developed by SCImago (Felix de Moya) -University of Granada

Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)• SNIP measures contextual citation impact • Every citation is counted as 1 citation – similar to Impact Factor• SNIP is field normalized, dependent on likelihood of citation in

subject field of source• Developed by Henk Moed, CWTS -Leiden University.

Journal metrics fully integrated in Scopus

Analytics function in Scopus

Analytics function in Scopus

Online Demo

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