SCOPUS - INTRODUCTION

Alvaro Ybarra MuguruzaAccount Manager Spaina.ybarra@elsevier.com

The broad source for research answers

20,000Peer reviewed journals

393Trade journals

371Book series

A rich and extended coverage including

21.2M pre-1996 records 29.5M post-1995 records>50M records

64k pre-1996 conf events 10.5k post-1995 conf events5.7M total conference records (10%)

844k book items

Content from > 5,000 publishers “Articles in Press” from > 3,750 titles Abstracts going back to 1823 40 languages covered 380 M integrated scientific websites 24M Patents

21,000 active titles

240Conf. series

Total average processing time: 5 days

Breadth of coverage across subject areas

More than 20,000 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

Health Sciences 6,300• (100% Medline)• Nursing• Dentistry • etc.,

Social Sciences 6,350• Psychology• Economics• Business• A&H • etc.,

Life Sciences 4,050• Neuroscience• Pharmacology• Biology • etc.,

Physical Sciences 6,600• Chemistry• Physics • Engineering• etc.,

Geographical distribution of titles

5,0000

Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape

How is content selected?

More expansive coverage does not meanlower standards

Titles are selected by the independent

Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)

Focus on quality through selection by independent CSAB, because:

•Provide accurate and relevant search results for users

•No dilution of search results by irrelevant or low quality content

•Support that Scopus is recognized as authoritative

•Support confidence that Scopus is “reflecting the truth”

•Assurance that titles selected by Scopus meet the highest ethical standards

Scopus selection criteria

Journalpolicy

• Convincing editorial concept/policy• Level of peer-review• Diversity in geographic distribution of editors• Diversity in geographic distribution of authors

Quality ofcontent

• Academic contribution to the field• Clarity of abstracts• Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope• Readability of articles

Journal standing

• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus• Editor standing

Regularity • No delay in publication schedule

Online availability

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

Minimum criteria

• Peer-review

• English abstracts

• Regular publication

• References in Roman script

• Publication ethics statement

Titles reviewed

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2012: Total 1,271 titles reviewed of which 47% accepted

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Claiming who you are

Many researchers that too closely resemble one another.

Dr. Lee Dr. Lee Dr. Lee

Researchers publish under name variations.

Dr. LeeDr. J. LeeDr. James Lee

The Challenge: Scholarly Name Ambiguity

Dr. James Lee46533489

Open Research and Contributor ID (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. LeeDr. J. LeeDr. James Lee

By issuing unique identifiers to all researchers, ORCID aims to facilitate discovery and evaluation for researchers, institutions, scholarly societies and publishers.

46533489

Joins faculty or student body

Joins scholarly society

Applies for grant

Submits manuscript

The (Future) Benefits of ORCID

Get your own ORCID

Link to add to ORCID, opens the Scopus to

ORCID feedback wizard

Who is looking at you?

Scopus customers world wide

Low PenetrationMid-level PenetrationHigh Penetration

(2012 Analysis, by customer count)

China: 10%US: 37%

Leading research institutes use Scopus

Rank Name of Institute Country1 University of Cambridge UK2 Harvard University US 3 Yale University US4 University College London UK5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US6 University of Oxford UK7 Imperial College London UK8 University of Chicago US9 California Institute of Technology US10 Princeton University US11 Columbia University US12 University of Pennsylvania US13 Stanford University US14 Duke University US15 University of Michigan US16 Cornell University US 17 Johns Hopkins University US 18 McGill University Canada19 ETH Zurich Switzerland20 Australian National University Australia

Scopus

Non-Scopus

Top decision making bodies around the world use Scopus data

More than 95 of the world’s top Laboratories, Institutes and Ranking Bodies use Scopus for evaluation

www.journalmetrics.com

More accuracy, More transparency, More options, More metrics!

API integration using Scopus data

Scopus

Requests dynamic Scopus Cited-by number to display on website

Use API to extract basic bibliographic data

1. Title2. Author3. Basic bibliographic

metadata

http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-services/integration

And finally…

Books

Funding data

Export limit increased to 20,000

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