scopus innovation at a glance
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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
Elsevier, Science & Technology
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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
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7700
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1460
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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
Elsevier, Science & Technology
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
What’s new: AUTHOR EVALUATOR
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What’s new: AUTHOR EVALUATOR
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)
ANALYTICS – NEW METRICS
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ANALYTICS – NEW METRICS
• 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)
ANALYTICS – NEW METRICS
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ANALYTICS – NEW METRICS
SCOPUSGlobal Projects
Elsevier, Science & Technology
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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%
2.00%
3.00%
4.00%
5.00%
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)
0.00%
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
Elsevier, Science & Technology
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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0.53
0.67
# of PapersCitations
Research Activity/Performance (2008)
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: Number of Papers
: 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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