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Changing World of Research

Lakshmi Santhosh Customer Consultant

Canadian Academia and Government

The mass of scientific output increases 8-9% each year--that equates to a doubling of global scientific output roughly every nine years!

Finding the right information…

•  Ineffective access to data leaves knowledge workers spending only 26% of their time on their core task: analysis of information. (IDC)

•  An engineer’s time spent searching for information has increased 13% since 2002. (Outsell)

•  Workers took up to 8 searches to find the right information. (SearchYourCloud)

•  60% [of company executives] felt that time constraints and lack of understanding of how to find information were preventing their employees from finding the information they needed. (IDC)

Importance of a global perspective

•  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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Research is increasingly collaborative across geographical boundaries.

24,100  'tles  Over  52  Million  Records  

(including  5.3M  Conference  Records)  

North & South America 34%

Europe, Middle East & Africa 54%

Asia, Australia, and Pacific 13%

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15% Physical Sciences

Health Sciences

Social Sciences

Life Sciences

What’s in Scopus?

5.5K  new  records  daily  =  2  Million  a  

year  

CONFERENCES 82K events 6.8M records (12%) Conf. expansion (2005 – 2013): 1,017 conferences 6,022 conf. events 410K conf. papers 5M citations Mainly Engineering and Physical Sciences

BOOKS 512 book series - 28K Volumes - 1.0M items 86,969 books - 709K items Books expansion: 120K books by 2015 - Focus on Social Sciences and A&H

PATENTS 24M patents from 5 major patent offices: • UK • US •  Japan • Europe • World

JOURNALS 22,025 peer-reviewed journals 359 trade journals •  Full metadata, abstracts and

cited references (references for post-1995 only)

•  >2,800 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’s in Scopus?

Comparison to nearest competitor

8,432   934  11,377  Scopus    

(Total:  19,809)  Web  of  Science  

(Total:  12,311)  

Broader  coverage  means  more  cita'ons  

60% more content

92% content overlap

JISC-ADAT: http://adat.crl.edu

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  cita'on  data  back  to  1970!  

View readership for articles in Scopus

Why? - Improve the completeness and coverage of back files in Scopus - Enhance the relevancy and visibility of archival content in Scopus - Measure the impact of pre-1996 – for both individual assessment and (historical) trend analysis. - Increase the accuracy of Scopus Author Profiles for older researchers and decision makers.

Expanding Cited References to 1970 Backfiles

Coverage years • Pre-1996, going back to 1970

Number of articles

• We estimate 8M+ articles will be (re-) processed to include cited references

Which Archives

• Archives from all major publishers that have digital archives available

• All subject areas included

Development of required systems and processes has already

started

The first content with pre-1996 cited

references available as of Q4 2014

Completed by 2016 when >8M articles from

all major publishers have been made discoverable

When?

Finding experts and collaborators: Analyze Author Output

Analyze Author Output

Analyze Author Output

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

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

Author and Affiliation Profiles

Affiliation Profile

•  Algorithm: 99% precision, 95% recall •  Manual reassignment on feedback for

100% precision

•  Algorithm: 99% precision, 93% recall •  Manual reassignment on feedback from

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