Scopus: a changing world of Research

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Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier. [email protected]

Scopus A Changing World of Research

14th July 2016

Maynooth University

mailto:[email protected]


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Your Own strategic Career Planand how Scopus can help you with that

Find out what already exists in the global world of research output

Determine how to differentiate research topics and find new ideas

Decide what, where and with whom to partner or collaborate with

Track impact of research; monitor global research trends

Identify and analyze which journals to read or where to submit an article

Help researchers manage their career through citation counts, Alternative Metrics and the h-index

22,245 serial titlesOver 61 Million Records

(including 6.83M Conference Records)

Content > 5.000 publisheres

North &

South

America

34%

Europe,

Middle East

& Africa

54%

Asia,

Australia,

and Pacific

13%

30%

32%

23%

15%

Physical Sciences

Health Sciences

Social Sciences

Life Sciences

What is Scopus?The largest abstract and citation database of research information

5.5K new records daily =

2 Million a year

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CONFERENCES

80K events

6.8M records >10%

Conf. expansion:

1,000 conferences

6,000 conf. events

400k conf. papers

5M citations

Mainly Engineering

and Physical

Sciences

BOOKS

>400 book series

- 28K Volumes

- 1.0M items

>120,000 books

Mainly on Social

Sciences and A&H

PATENTS

24M patents

from 5 major

patent offices:

• UK

• US

• Japan

• Europe

• World

JOURNALS

22,245 peer-reviewed journals

400 trade journals

• Full metadata, abstracts and

cited references (references for

post-1995 only)

• >3,700 fully Open Access titles

• Going back to 1823

• Funding data from

acknowledgements

Physical

Sciences

7,456

Health

Sciences

6,834

Social

Sciences

8,042

Life

Sciences

4,509

What content does Scopus include?

Source: Scopus title list (November 2014)

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• In Royal Society research, there is

significant growth in research from

emerging markets, including China

(505%), India (98%), Turkey (366%)

and Brazil (159%).

• In contrast, countries in North America

and Western Europe, which

traditionally have a large scientific

output, have lower growth rates.

Source: http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/knowledge-networks-nations/?f=1

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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

China United States Japan Brazil South Korea

United Kingdom Germany France India Italy

Research is increasingly collaborative across geographical boundaries.

Importance of a global perspective

http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/knowledge-networks-nations/?f=1

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Scopus also adds more intelligence from mining additional data.

Mendeley readership

Statistics shows how

many times

Mendeley users have

downloaded a

specific article to their

libraries.

Scopus assists with

forwards and

backwards citation

research by identifying

not only an article’s

cited references but

also its citing

references.

Mendeley is a free reference

manager and academic social

network that can help you

organize your research,

collaborate with others online,

and discover the latest research.

Now indexing citation data back to 1970!

ORCID, unique ID for researchers

ORCID aims to solve the name

ambiguity problem in research and

scholarly communications by

creating a central registry of

unique identifiers for individual

researchers.

Dr. James Smith

46533489

Dr. Smith

Dr. J. Smith

Dr. James Smith

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Authors can use Scopus to populate their ORCID

profile via Scopus Author Profiles, the

Scopus2ORCID Wizard at

orcid.scopusfeedback.com or from ORCID!

Scopus has fully-integrated with ORCID


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Let’s go online


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Registering a Personal Profile and logging into Scopus


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Registering 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|Registering a Personal Profile:

Enter your details

Choose your password

Click on register

Define your primary

field(s) of interest


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Registering a Personal Profile:

Take your new

username and log

in here. An e-mail

has also been sent

to you with your

username and

confirmation of your

password.


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Settings

After you log in, you can

access all your personal

information in “My Scopus


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Different options of search:

• Document search:

• Recommended for most users

• Author search:

• Recommended for information about specific authors,

their articles and citations

• Affiliation search:

• Recommended for the output of specific institutions

• Advanced search:

• Recommended for librarians and users experienced with complex query building


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Search tips

Booleans: And / Or / And Not

Order of precedence rules

Searches with multiple operators are processed in the following order:

• OR

• AND

• AND NOT

All these searches...

KEY (mouse OR rat AND rodent)

KEY (rodent AND rat OR mouse)

KEY (rat OR mouse AND rodent)

KEY(mouse OR rat) AND rodent


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Search tips

Exact phrase:

{oyster toadfish}

Loose phrase:

"heart attack“where heart and attack are adjacent to each other.

Wildcards as

characters:

{health care?}returns results such as: Who pays for health

care?

"criminal* insan*“Asterix :finds criminally insane and criminal

insanity.

Proximity operatorspain W/15 morphinefinds articles in which "pain" and "morphine" are no

more than 15 terms apart

behavioural PRE/3 disturbancesfinds articles in which "behavioural" precedes

"disturbances" by three or fewer words.

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• Analyze results

• Output options: Save, Download, Export, Print, E-mail,

• Create a bibliography, add to my list

• Citation overview

Managing results


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Limit your search by

publication year,

discipline or type of

content

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


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Refine your results

Limit to or exclude results based on lists of Source titles,

Author names, Year, Document Type, Subject area,

Keywords, Language, Source Type or Affiliation

AND/OR

Search within your results


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Citation overview: 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


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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

Citation Overview: what is it?


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How to use it: go online

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:

• You can also save this list of articles for future reference

and print or export the Citation Overview


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Find out what is being cited and from where

View a citation overview of

the selected documents

View documents citing

the selected documents


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Find the best journal to submit your paper

Which journal publishes most articles onyour research topic?

Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all journals publishing articles on your research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic included

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Find potential collaborating institutes

Which institute publishes most articles on your research topic?

Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all names of institutes where authors work who publish on you research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic per institute

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Find potential co-authors

Which author publishes most articles on your research topic?

Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all authors who publish in your research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic per author

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Analyzing search results

Scopus provides an analysis of your

search results. The analysis shows you the

number of documents in your

search results broken down (on separate

tabs)


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Scopus Analytics

Compare your target journals

You can use the Journal Analyzer to compare up to 10 Scopus sources on a variety of parameters: SJR, ÏPP, SNIP, citations, documents, and percentage of documents not cited.

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http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/h_jrnlparams.htm


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Scopus Analytics

Select the journal(s) you want to evaluate

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At the Browse sources home page, click Compare journals. The

Journal Analyzer opens with the source added to the analyzer.


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Scopus Analytics

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

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Developed by Felix de Moya (Spain).SJR is a prestigue metric and weights citations according to the status of the citing journal. It is 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 the citation.

• A source transfers its own 'prestige', or status, to another source through the act of citing it.

• A citation from a source with a relatively high SJR is worth more than a citation from a source with a lower SJR.

• 1=average value for this field, <1 below average for this field, <1 above average for its field

http://www.journalmetrics.com/sjr.php


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Scopus Analytics

IPP (Impact per Paper)

The IPP metric is

using a citation

window of three

years which is

considered to be

the optimal time

period to

accurately

measure citations

in most subject

fields


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Scopus Analytics

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)

Developed by Henk Moed at CWS, Univ of Leiden (NL). SNIP is weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

The impact of a single citation is given a higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.

E.g. high citation behaviour in Life Sciences, now citation behaviour in Social Sciences

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Scopus Analytics

The number of times a source has been cited in a year.

If a total of 50 articles has been published in the source over the last 5 years and 10 of those articles have been cited once in the current year, then the total number of citations for the year would be 10.

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Scopus Analytics

The total number of documents published in

the journal in the year


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Scopus Analytics

The percentage of articles not cited

Compare sources by the percentage of documents published in a year that have never been cited to date.

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Scopus Analytics

The percentage of documents in the year that are review articles

Compare sources by the percentage of documents published in a year that are review articles


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ORCID: Author Profile 2.0since October 2012

• Open

• Researcher &

• Contributor

• ID

ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-

driven effort to create and maintain a registry

of unique researcher identifiers and a

transparent method of linking research

activities and outputs to these identifiers.

ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across

disciplines, research sectors and national

boundaries. It is a hub that connects

researchers and research through the

embedding of ORCID identifiers in key

workflows, such as research profile

maintenance, manuscript submissions, grant

applications, and patent applications.

www.orcid.org

http://www.orcid.org/


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Dr. James Smith

46533489

ORCID Mission:

ORCID aims to solve the name

ambiguity problem in research

and scholarly communications by

creating a central registry of

unique identifiers for individual

researchers

The Solution: The ORCID Registry

Dr. Smith

Dr. J. Smith

Dr. James Smith


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Authors can use Scopus to populate their ORCID profile via Scopus Author Profiles, the Scopus2ORCID Wizard at orcid.scopusfeedback.com or from ORCID!


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ORCID link in the new Author Profile (May release)


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How to use research metrics and why Scopus offers a basket of metrics


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Journal Analyzer: what is it?

• Journal Analyzer gives users a comparative overview of the journal landscape, showing how titles in a given field are performing relative to each other

• The objective data is presented in an easy, comprehensive graphical format comparing citations of max. 10 journals from over 22,000 peer reviewed journals from today all the way back to 1970.

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Where available, article-level metrics are captured for all articles in Scopus


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Multiple types of article-level metrics provide a more complete view of the performance of an article


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Integration of article level metrics into Scopus

Launching on 29 July, Scopus’ Article

Metrics module provides a concise

overview of a selection of key citation

impact and community engagement

metrics (altmetrics). Accessible from

the sidebar on document details pages,

the module allows users to rapidly

evaluate specific research articles


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Putting the article front and center

Engagement Metrics

Scholarly Activity –Downloads and

posts in common research tools such

as Mendeley and CiteULike.

Scholarly Commentary – Reviews,

articles and blogs by experts and

scholars, such as F1000 Prime,

research blogs, and Wikipedia.

Mass Media – Coverage of research

output in the Mass Media

Social Activity – Mentions

characterized by rapid, brief

engagement on platforms used by

the general population, such as

Twitter, Facebook and Google+.


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More accuracy, transparency, more metrics

Professor Henk Moed, CWTS

(Centre for Science and

Technology Studies) in the

Netherlands

Professor Félix de Moya, Research

Professor at Consejo Superior de

Investigaciones Científicas and Vicente

Guerrero Bote at University of Extremadura


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Differences in citation potential between fields

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Number of received citations

Reference

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Molecular Biology Mathematics

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5

Mathematics & Computer Sciences

Social Sciences

Materials Science & Engineering

Biological Sciences

Environmental Sciences

Earth Sciences

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Physics

Pharmacology & Toxicology

Clinical Medicine

Neuroscience

Fundamental Life Sciences

Mean Impact Factor

Influences on Impact Factors: Subject Area


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IPP: Impact per Publication


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SNIP: Source-normalized impact per paper

Molecular Cell: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

IPP


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SJR: SCImago Journal Rank


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Compare journals


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List of titles http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview


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List of titles http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview


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Where to find further information


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• Scopus info site: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus

• Support and training:

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/support

• Scopus title list: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/support

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content


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Thank you

Elsevier.com/Scopus

[email protected]