SCOPUS - INTRODUCTION
Alvaro Ybarra Muguruza
Account Manager Spain
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The broad source for research answers
21,000
active titles
A rich and
extended
coverage
including
20,000
Peer reviewed journals
393
Trade journals
21.2M pre-1996 records
29.5M post-1995 records
>50M records
64k pre-1996 conf events
10.5k post-1995 conf events
5.7M total conference records (10%)
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371
Book series
240
Conf. series
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
844k book items
Total average processing time: 5 days
Breadth of coverage across subject areas
Physical Sciences
6,600
Health Sciences 6,300
• Chemistry
• Nursing
• Physics
• Dentistry
• Engineering
• etc.,
• etc.,
• (100% Medline)
Social Sciences
6,350
Life Sciences
4,050
• Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Economics
• Pharmacology
• Business
• Biology
• A&H
• etc.,
• etc.,
More than 20,000 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area
Geographical distribution of titles
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5,000
Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape
How is content selected?
More expansive coverage does not mean
lower 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
Journal
policy
Minimum criteria
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Peer-review
English abstracts
Quality of
content
Regular publication
References in Roman script
Publication ethics statement
Journal
standing
Regularity
Online
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Convincing editorial concept/policy
Level of peer-review
Diversity in geographic distribution of editors
Diversity in geographic distribution of authors
Academic contribution to the field
Clarity of abstracts
Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope
Readability of articles
Citedness of journal articles in Scopus
Editor standing
No delay in publication schedule
Content available online
English-language journal home page
Quality of home page
(n=2,976, January 2011 – December 2012)
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60%
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2012: Total 1,271 titles reviewed of which 47% accepted
Acceptance rate
Number of titles reviewed
Titles reviewed
Claiming who you are
The Challenge: Scholarly Name Ambiguity
Many researchers that too closely
resemble one another.
Dr. Lee
Dr. Lee
Dr. Lee
Researchers publish
under name variations.
Dr. Lee
Dr. J. Lee
Dr. James Lee
The Solution: The ORCID Registry
Dr. Lee
Dr. J. Lee
Dr. James Lee
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
Dr. James Lee
46533489
The (Future) Benefits of ORCID
By issuing unique identifiers to all researchers,
ORCID aims to facilitate discovery and evaluation for
researchers, institutions, scholarly societies and
publishers.
Joins faculty or student body
Joins scholarly society
Applies for grant
46533489
Submits manuscript
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
(2012 Analysis, by customer count)
US: 37%
Low Penetration
Mid-level Penetration
High Penetration
China: 10%
Leading research institutes use Scopus
Rank Name of Institute
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University of Cambridge
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Canada
Switzerland
Australia
Harvard University
Yale University
University College London
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
Imperial College London
University of Chicago
California Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
Duke University
University of Michigan
Cornell University
Johns Hopkins University
McGill University
ETH Zurich
Australian National University
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
More accuracy, More transparency,
More options, More metrics!
www.journalmetrics.com
API integration using Scopus data
Scopus
Requests dynamic
Scopus Cited-by
number to display on
website
Use API to extract basic
bibliographic data
1. Title
2. Author
3. Basic bibliographic
metadata
http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-services/integration
And finally…
Books
Export limit increased to 20,000
Funding data
Thank you!