SCOPUS innovation at a glance

SCOPUSinnovation at a glance

Padua conference

08th June, 2010

M’hamed el AisatiHead of New Technology

Massimiliano CarloniKey Account Manager, Italy

Elsevier, Science & Technology

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Agenda

How to use standard tools and international benchmarks to support Italian universities needs

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Tools & Indexes

International Experience

A new partnering approach

SCOPUSgeneral characteristics


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Nearly 18,000 Titles including 16,500 Peer Reviewed Titles 600 Trade Journals 350 Book Series Extensive Conference Proceedings 40 languages are covered

“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.”

~16,500 600 350

A rich and ex-tended coverage including

Abstracts and citations from5000 publishers (ELS 15%)

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 (Scopus

includes all historical material of ELS, Springer, ACS, AIP, Nature, Science, etc..)

Nearly 2,700 Arts & Humanities titles 430 m integrated scientific websites via

Scirus.com

– Chief librarian, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

SCOPUS coverage

Scopus info on www.info.scopus.com

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Phys.Sciences• Chemistry• Physics• Engineering• …

Health Sciences(100% Medline)• Nursing• Dentistry•…

Life Sciences• Neuroscience• Pharmacology• Biology•…

Social Sciences• Psychology• Economics• Business•…

17,50017,50017,50017,5007,1107,1107,1107,110 4,1404,1404,1404,1406,7906,7906,7906,790 5,3105,3105,3105,310

SCOPUS coverage across subject areas

“The coverage provided by Scopus is balanced in terms of subject areas when compared with Ulrich’s core.”

– Felix de Moya, Scientometrics 2007

26 major subject areas307 minor subject areas

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SCOPUS coverage across geographical areas

5440

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7700

250

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1460

230

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View references or citations for selected results

Sort results per relevance, author names, year or citations received

SCOPUS search

Output options: print, e-mail, create a bibliography.

Download full-text or abstracts.

Save the search and create an alert

Scopus provides quick, intelligent answersWhich journals are most popular in this area?

Who else is active in this field ?

What other disciplines are related?

Is this a growing topic of interest?

SCOPUSTools and indexes


SCOPUS author profileScreenshot: Scopus Author Information

Amy Knapp, Assistant University Librarian for Public Services and Departmental Libraries, USA

“Author identification in Scopus is so easy to use and solves a problem that experienced users have long expressed a frustration with. It also builds on an existing strength of Scopus; supporting the collaboration between authors.”

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 received

•List of co-authors

•Author’s H Index

•The feedback button allows authors to ask for corrections.

Screenshot: Scopus Author Information

Importance of Access to the Expertise of Other Researchers

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Get an overview of an author at a glance

documents

Grouped profiles

Alert for a new publication

Alert for a new citation

H-INDEX

Affiliation

Last documents

feedback

H-INDEX

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H-graphs

“The H-index is the highest number of papers a scientist has that have at least that number of citations” . Nature (2005).

Published by Jorge E. Hirsch in August 2005.

An author with H-Index 13 has at least 13 articles published that received at least 13 citations.

DEFINITION

EXAMPLE

Available from Author Profiles and Citation Tracker pages.

H Index calculation in Scopus only considers articles published from 1996 onwards.

H-INDEX on SCOPUS

CITATION TRACKER

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• 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

CITATIONS

• Grant application for research groups • Recruitment • Evaluation of a university, department or research group’s output • Choosing a mentor for a master or PhD program• It can be added to author’s CV or homepage

APPLICATIONS

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This author has received citations from these journals

Options to analyse an author’s work by co-authors, citing authors, subject area and time

What’s new: AUTHOR EVALUATOR


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CURRENT & FUTURE: AFFILIATION PROFILE

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ANALYTICS – JOURNAL ANALYZER

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Apply to nearly 18,000 journals, proceedings and book seriesAre refreshed twice per year to ensure currency of metrics

Allow for a direct comparison of journals, independent of their subject classificationAre integrated into the Scopus Journal Analyzer

Are FREELY available

ANALYTICS – NEW METRICS

• Created by Professor Henk Moed at CTWS, University of Leiden. • Measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of

citations in a subject field. • The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are

less likely, and vice versa.• Characteristics:

• Measures contextual citation impact by “normalizing” citation values.• Takes a research field’s citation frequency into account.• Considers immediacy, how quickly a paper is likely to have an impact in a given field .• Accounts for how well the field is covered by the underlying database.• Calculates without use of a journal’s subject classification to avoid delimitation.• Counters any potential for editorial manipulation.

SOURCE NORMALIZED IMPACT PER PAPER (SNIP)


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• Developed by Professor Félix de Moya, Research Professor at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

• “Prestige” metric based on the idea that “all citations are not created equal”. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct effect on the value of a citation.

• Characteristics:• Is weighted by the prestige of the journal, thereby “leveling the playing field” among journals.• Eliminates manipulation: raise the SJR ranking by being published in more reputable journals.• “Shares” a journal’s prestige equally over the total number of citations in that journal.• Normalizes for differences in citation behavior between subject fields.

SCIMAGO JOURNAL RANKING (SJR)


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SCOPUSGlobal Projects


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Australian Research Council – ERA 2010

• Assessment of research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally-recognized experts.

• ERA uses leading researchers to evaluate research in eight discipline clusters.

• ERA will detail areas within institutions and disciplines that are internationally competitive, as well as point to emerging areas where there are opportunities for development and further investment.

• Early January 2010 – Aug/Sep 2010• First trial (PCE) in 2009• Scopus selected as source information

provider and partner

More info on:http://www.arc.gov.au/era/default.htm

Australian Research Council – ERA 20103 main components:

- EID tagging

- Dedicated web service (API)

- Reports:

Citation Benchmark report (cpp)

Centile threshold report

Ranked journal ‘Indicative World Distribution’ Benchmark Report

ARC – Scopus – Universities interaction

EID tagging process

Dedicated Web Service

CIVR (Italy) – Percentile threshold reports

Benchmark Italian output (publication and citations) against the world for each of

the 27 main subject areas

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Italy – Performance output of some universities

CAGR (2004-2009)

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1.00%

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6.00%

7.00%

8.00%

9.00%

Universitadegli Studidi Torino

Universitadegli Studidi Padova

Universitadegli Studidi Milano

Alma MaterStudiorum

Universita diBologna

Universita diPisa

Universitadegli Studidi Firenze

Universitadegli Studidi Roma LaSapienza

Universitadegli Studidi Napoli

Federico II

ConsiglioNazionale

delleRicerche

Universites

CAGR

http://concepts.elsevier.com/ScopusDemo/PaduaConf.html

Italy – Collaboration based output

CAGR (2004-2009)

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2.00%

4.00%

6.00%

8.00%

10.00%

12.00%

Universitadi Pisa

Universitadegli Studidi Torino

Universitadegli Studidi Padova

Alma MaterStudiorumUniversitadi Bologna

Universitadegli Studidi Milano

Universitadegli Studidi Napoli

Federico II

Universitadegli Studidi Roma LaSapienza

Universitadegli Studidi Firenze

ConsiglioNazionale

delleRicerche

Universities

CAGR (%)

International Collaboration with institutions from one of the following countries:UK, US, France, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Canada, Germany, Korea, Netherlands and China

CAPES – Post graduation programs evaluation• Journals and their scoring classified across for each of the 47 major (self defined) subject

areas that are evaluated.

(the same journal may score “A2” in one subject area but “B1” for another)

• Articles and its metadata written by Brazilian authors in the period of 2007 – 2008 – 2009 and their citations, matched to the journals listed in each of the excel files.

• The output format would have to allow them an easy way to match the data with the post-graduation program (by affiliation, author name, etc.)

Baden Württemberg – percentile reports

• Benchmark BW citation output for top 1% most cited, 5% most cited, etc. against:

Germany

Selected countries: UK, US, France, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Canada, Germany, Korea, Netherlands and China

World (example above)

MoEST, Korea – World Indicator Benchmarks

• Determine Journal Citation rate for a 3 years window.

• Used for creation of research excellence in Korea

Use API to extract basic bibliographic data1. Title2. Author3. Basic bibliographic

metadata

Example HEFCE

I.R requests dynamic Cited By Number from Scopus to display on their Website

Repository

Scopus Application Programming Interface (API)

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Scopus Application Programming Interface (API)

SCOPUSInnovation


The Scopus Alerts (Lite) searches Scopus.com to find and display reference information. Features include:

Search across thousands of scholarly journals from more than 5000 international publishers;

Save the important abstracts in one place for easy look-up;

Set up and review email alerts for your favorite searches;

Set up email alerts for when an author cites a particular article;

Annotate records with your own notes;

Share article links through email or twitter.

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Scopus iPhone app, launched in iTunes on May 2010

Scopus Alerts (Lite) – Status Quo

Launched on May 12>1650 downloads sinceDownloaded from more than 50 different iTunes storesSome reviews:

GB : At last!On first sight this looks brilliant, life will be a lot easier now.by BryPot on 2010-05-12 (Version 1.0)

US: This app is great for my research.I can really see this being usefulby Leniscus on 2010-04-22 (Version 1.0)

What about an Adroid version? Is there an iPad version? Can I sync my alerts withScopus.com ?

But also some questions/feedback:

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India’s national evaluation

Introduce results of selected analysis on India’s national research activity

Traditional Metrics

New Methodology

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Understanding Overall Research Activity

Number of PapersNumber of Papers Subject AreasSubject Areas

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20,000

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50,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

12.6%CAGR

12.6%

Note: “Paper” includes the following Document Types in Scopus; “Articles”, “Conference Papers” and “Reviews”.Source: Scopus, SCIMAGO, Analysis

MEDICINE

CHEMISTRY

ENGINEERING

BIOCHEMISTRY/GENETICS

PHYSICSAGRICULTUALBIOLOGICALSCIENCE

TOTAL194,766PAPERS

(2004-08)

OTHERS

MATERIALSCIENCE

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Comparing Research Performance across Nations

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Research Activity/Performance (2008)

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: Number of Citations

: Citation per Paper

Source: Scopus, SCIMAGO, Analysis

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A new approachFactors we need to considerFactors we need to consider New ApproachNew Approach

How can we reflect the changes How can we reflect the changes in research environment into in research environment into our performance evaluation?our performance evaluation?

•• MultiMulti--DisciplinaryDisciplinary ResearchResearch

•• Research conducted at a Research conducted at a granular levelgranular level

Can we get strategic implications Can we get strategic implications for future resource allocation?for future resource allocation?

•• “Which are the high growth areas?”“Which are the high growth areas?”

Looked into individual papers and analyzed citation relationship

Used as base data for analysis

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India’s 117 National Level Competencies

MULTI-DISCIPLINARYRESEARCH AREAS

MEDICINEBIOTECHNOLOGY

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

BIOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

ENGINEERING

CHEMISTRY

PHYSICSCOMPUTER SCIENCE

SOCIAL SCIENCE

BRAIN RESEARCH

HEALTH SCIENCE

RESEARCH AREAWITH GLOBAL STRENGTH

Source: SciVal Horizon 2008 Map

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Compare with other nationsOther NationsOther Nations

Source: SciVal Horizon 2008 Map

Many competenciesin IT, chemistry and engineering.

Many competencies in medicine and social science.

BiotechnologyBiology

Chemistry

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Example:“Biotechnology” related competencies A

Tenth Science Plan

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10.107 … recent advances in many areas of biological research, notably genomics, cell biology, structural biology and molecular approached to biological function hold great promise for future developments in biotechnology.

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Distinctive Competency #25Distinctive Competency #25

Disciplines:

• Protein Science (30%), Insect Physiology (18%), Plan Physiology (12%), Molecular Cell Biology (7%)

Size of Research Field:

• 1,759 papers globally past 5 yrs

• 3.81% growth/yr

Key Researchers

• India: Prof. Avadhesha Surolia

• Global: Prof. Tzi Bun Ng (CUHK)

Key Journals:

• Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

• Journal of Invertebrate Pathology etc.Search:Molecular Cell Biology

Tenth Science Plan

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10.107 … recent advances in many areas of biological research, notably genomics, cell biologycell biology, structural biology and molecular approachedmolecular approached to biological function hold great promise for future developments in biotechnology.

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(cont.) Distinctive Competency # 25A

Top academic and government institutions in Indiaare actively conducting research in this field

Source: SciVal Horizon 2008

Global leadersGlobal leadersDomestic leadersDomestic leaders

TopInstitution

TopAuthor

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Which global top institutionsshould we compare ourselves with?

Other Nations (example)Other Nations (example)

Source: SciVal Spotlight 2007/2008 Map

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IIT, Delhi

CSIR (Bio)

MIT

RIKEN (All)

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