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Customer Usage Reports
Updated May 2017
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Contents
PR1. Total Searches, Result Clicks
and Record Views by Month and Platform
PR1. Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and Platform
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Report 1a. General Overview
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Report 1b. Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service for Scopus
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Report 1c. Daily Activity
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Report 2a. Searches by Type
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Report 2b. Search Results by Type
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Report 3a. Inward Linking
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Report 3b. Outward Linking to Documents
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Report 4a. Infometric Use
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Report 5a. Literature Discovery
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This COUNTER COP4 compliant report (see www.projectcounter.org) shows the total number of Regular Searches,
Searches – Federated and Automated, Record Views and Result Clicks per month. The report provides data for the current
year to date and the full previous years. The report contains data per month and a total for all months. Please note that
Searches – Federated and Automated can only be counted and reported at the account level.
• Regular Searches
• Searches – Federated and Automated
• Results Clicks
• Record Views
Except for the Record Views metric, the metric values match the previously reported numbers very closely.
The Record Views metric has been adjusted to also include Source Record Views. The old metric only included
Document Records, Author Records and Affiliation Records. As a result, the reported numbers will be slightly higher
in the new report (ca. 3% on average).
Metrics definition
Regular Searches counts all implicit and explicit on-platform searches.
Searches – Federated and Automated counts the number of searches via the Scopus Search API originating from
the customer’s Federated Search engine.
Record Views counts all requests of the following pages: Document Records, Author Profiles, Affiliation Profiles,
Source Records.
Result clicks counts all requests from search results lists for the following pages and features: Affiliation Profile pages,
Author Profile pages, Analyze Author Output pages, Citation Overview pages, Output actions (email, export, print),
Full-text links, Document Download Manager requests, Document Record pages, Results Analyzer Pages, Source Record
pages and Compare Journals pages.
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Report 1a. General Overview
Report 1b. Total Searches and Sessions
by Month and Service for Scopus
This report provides data for the current year to date and the full previous year.
The new report shows:
This COUNTER COP3 compliant report (see www.projectcounter.org) shows the total number of Regular Searches,
Sessions and Federated Searches per month.
• Sessions
• Active IPs
The new report shows:
• Active Users
• Regular Searches
• Active Registered Users
• Sessions
• Regular Searches
• Sessions – Federated and Automated
• Literature Discovery
• Searches – Federated and Automated
• Infometric Use
The Sessions, Active IPs, Active Users, Active Registered Users and Regular Searches should match the previously reported
numbers very closely. Regular Searches is the same as Searches Run in the previous report, but is now named according
to the COUNTER terminology used in report PR1.
Literature Discovery and Infometric Use are new metrics and they are defined in the next paragraph.
Federated Searches is no longer included in this report as it can also be found in the COUNTER PR1 and 1b report.
These are the same metrics as in the old report (with the exception of Regular Searches being the new name for the
old metric Searches Run). All new metrics will therefore match the previously reported numbers very closely.
Metrics definition
Regular Searches and Searches – Federated and Automated are defined in PR1 report description.
Sessions is defined in report 1a description.
Metrics definition
Sessions are defined as a series of consecutive actions of one and the same user as identified by a unique session cookie
that is accepted by the user. A session starts at the moment of a first request of a user and ends after 120 minutes of no
activity. Note that the concept of session does not apply to federated search activity. Therefore, the Sessions – Federated
and Automated metric will always return a 0 value.
Note that the concept of session does not apply to federated search activity. Therefore, the Sessions – Federated
and Automated metric will always return a 0 value.
Active IPs in a month is defined as a distinct count of IP addresses from which one or more page request originated during
that month.
Active Users in a month are defined as users that made at least one page request during that month and accepted a user
machine cookie. The report metric counts all active distinct machine cookies. Please note that users can also refuse machine
cookies, refresh it after every session or share it (e.g. library computer). Therefore, this count is only an estimate of the real
number of users.
Active Registered Users in a month are defined as users that made at least one page request during that month and logged
on using a username and password. The report metric counts all active distinct registered users. Please note that a registered
user who refuses machine cookies is not included in the count of Active users.
Regular Searches is the same as the metric in the PR1 report above.
Literature Discovery is the sum of Document Record Views and Outward Links to Documents. The breakdown of these
2 metrics can be found in the new report 5a.
Infometric Use is an aggregate number for the use of Scopus analytical tools. A breakdown of this metric can be found
in the new report 4a.
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Report 2b. Search Results by Type
Report 1c. Daily Activity
This report gives a breakdown of search results lists by type as well as a breakdown of Record Views originating from different
types of search result lists. Data are reported for the current year to date and the full previous year.
This report shows the Sessions per day for the previous month.
Metrics definition
The new report shows:
Sessions are defined as a series of consecutive actions of one and the same user as identified by a unique session cookie
that is accepted by the user. A session starts at the moment of a first request of a user and ends after 120 minutes of no
activity. Note that the concept of session does not apply to federated search activity. Therefore, the Sessions – Federated and
Automated metric will always return a 0 value.
• Document Result Lists
• Record Views from Document Result Lists
• Author Result Lists
• Record Views from Author Result Lists
• Affiliation Result Lists
Report 2a. Searches by Type
• Record Views from Affiliation Result Lists
• Source Result Lists
• Record Views from Source Result Lists
This report gives a breakdown of searches by type.
Metrics definition
Searches for documents counts all on-platform searches for documents run via either typing and submitting a
search query or clicking on a link that triggers a search (e.g. the number of citations of a given article.
Searches for documents counts all on-platform searches for authors run via either typing and submitting a search
query or clicking on a link that triggers a search (e.g. the number of authors of a given institution/affiliation.
Searches for affiliations counts all on-platform searches for affiliations run via either typing and submitting a search
query or clicking on a link that triggers a search.
Searches for affiliations counts all on-platform searches for sources run via either typing and submitting a search
query or clicking on a link that triggers a search.
Searches for citing documents counts all on-platform searches for documents that cite a given document.
A metric for Source Results Lists has been added. The new metrics match the previously reported numbers very closely.
In addition to the metrics counting the number of search results lists, we have now included metrics that count the number
of Scopus Record Views originating from these search results lists as to better show conversion of search results into records
being viewed.
Metrics definition
Document Result Lists counts the number of search result lists that show document results.
Record Views from Document Result Lists counts the number of document records that have been viewed via clicking
on a result from a Document Result List.
Author Result Lists counts the number of results lists that show author results.
Searches for referred documents counts all on-platform searches for documents referred by a given document.
Record Views from Author Result Lists counts the number of author records that have been viewed via clicking on a result
from an Author Result List.
Searches for related documents counts all on-platform searches for documents that relate to a given document.
Affiliation Result Lists counts the number of results lists that show affiliation results.
Searches from external origin counts all searches from external search forms that have been submitted to Scopus
and generate a results list.
Record Views from Affiliation Result Lists counts the number of affiliation records that have been viewed via clicking on
a result from an Affiliation Result List.
Source Result Lists counts the number of results lists that show source results.
Record Views from Source Result Lists counts the number of source records that have been viewed via clicking on a result
from a Source Result List.
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Report 3a. Inward Linking
This report shows the monthly usage of deep links to Scopus. Inward links lead the user directly to a Scopus record
or a results list. Data are reported for the current year to date and the full previous year.
The new report has slightly changed as the CSA Illumina metric is no longer relevant and the new data source allows
us to better break down the links from alerts and Open URL links. The following metrics are included in the report:
• Inward Links from Author Citation Alerts
Metrics definition
Inward Links from Author Citation Alerts counts the number of Scopus entries from emailed author citation alerts.
Inward Links from Document Citation Alerts counts the number of Scopus entries from emailed document citation alerts.
Inward Links from Search Alerts counts the number of Scopus entries from emailed search alerts.
OpenURL Links from SFX counts the number of entries into Scopus from SFX via the OpenURL mechanism.
• Inward Links from Document Citation Alerts
OpenURL Links from EBSCOHost counts the number of entries into Scopus from EBSCOHost via the OpenURL mechanism.
• Inward Links from Search Alerts
OpenURL Links from Other Origin counts the number of all other entries into Scopus via the OpenURL mechanism.
• OpenURL Links from SFX
Inward Links from ScienceDirect counts the number of Scopus entries originating from ScienceDirect.
• OpenURL Links from EBSCOHost
Inward Links from Elsevier API Clients counts the number entries into Scopus from Elsevier API clients.
• OpenURL Links from Other Origin
• Inward Links from Elsevier API Clients
Inward Links from Reference Manager and RefWorks counts the number of Scopus entries originating from Reference
Manager and RefWorks. From Reference Manager and RefWorks, the user can link to the Scopus record page or to a results list
with related documents or citing documents.
• Inward Links from Reference Manager
http://www.refworks.com/
• Inward Links from SciVal
Inward Links from Elsevier Citation Alert counts the number of Scopus entries originating from Elsevier citation alerts.
• Inward Links from RSS feeds
Inward Links from ORCID counts the number of Scopus entries originating from ORCID.org website.
• Inward Links from Elsevier Citation Alert
Inward Links from PURE counts the number of Scopus entries originating from PURE.
• Inward Links from ORCID
Inward Links from SciVal / Engineering Village / Reaxys / Mendeley / The Lancet counts the number of Scopus entries
originating from each website:
• Inward Links from ScienceDirect
• Inward Links from Engineering Village
http://www.scival.com/
• Inward Links from PURE
http://www.engineeringvillage.com/
• Inward Links from Reaxys
https://www.reaxys.com/
• Inward Links from Mendeley
https://www.mendeley.com/
• Inward Links from RefWorks
http://www.thelancet.com/
Inward Links from RSS feeds counts the number of Scopus entries from RSS feeds. Scopus offers RSS feeds for document
searches, citation searches and related document searches.
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Report 3b. Outward Linking to Documents
This report shows usage of the Outward Links to Documents at publisher sites per month for the current year to date and the
full previous year.
Documents via Download Manager counts the number of documents that have been downloaded via the
Document Download Manager:
• View at Publisher Links
• Link Resolver Links
• View on Web Links
• Direct Full-Text Links
• Interlibrary/Document Delivery Links
• Documents via Download Manager
Metrics definition
View at Publisher Links counts the use of links to full-text documents published in any title covered by CrossRef and to articles
in ca. 800 additional titles that are not or only partly covered by CrossRef.
Link Resolver Links counts the use of links to documents via the library’s link resolver, e.g.:
,
,
, etc.
View on Web Links counts the use of links to documents on the web.
Direct Full-Text Links counts the use of links to full-text documents to e.g. local repositories or on-site hosting platforms.
The link and text on the button are fully customizable by the customer, so the following screenshot may not be appropriate
for every customer:
Interlibrary/Document Delivery Links counts use of links to a document delivery form:
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Report 4a. Infometric Use
Report 5a. Literature Discovery
This report replaces the previous Analytical Tool Usage report and gives information about the use of the Scopus research
performance measurement tools for the current year to date and the full previous year.
This is a new report containing the following metrics (previously reported in report 1a):
The new report shows:
• Outward Links to Documents
• Affiliation Profile Views
• Document Record Views
This reports provides data for the current year to date and the full previous year.
• Author Profile Views
Metrics definition
• Analyze Author Output Views
• Citation Overview Requests
Document Record Views is the new name for the old Abstracts metric, but no longer includes abstract previews on results lists.
Therefore, it now only counts full Document Record Views.
• Citation Overview Exports
Outward Links to Documents is the sum of all metrics from report 3b. Outward Links to Documents and measure the total use
of outward links from Scopus to full-text documents.
• Compare Journals Analyzer Views
• Publication Metrics Views
• Results Analyzer Views
• Cited-By Clicks
Some metrics have been renamed to match the current name of the specific analyzer. Metrics for use of the Publication Metrics
page, Cited-By Clicks and Citation Overview Exports have been added to give a more complete picture of analytical use.
These already reported metrics will match the previously reported numbers very closely.
Metrics definition
Affiliation Profile Views counts the use of Affiliation profile pages.
Author Profile Views counts the use of Author profile pages.
Analyze Author Output Views counts the Analyze Author Output page views. Each switching to a different tab within that
page is included in the count.
Citation Overview Requests counts the Citation Overview page views. Each update of the overview is included in the count.
Citation Overview Exports counts export actions from the Citation Overview page.
Compare Journals Analyzer Views counts the use of the Scopus Journal Analyzer. Each addition of journal or change of tab
is included in the count.
Publication Metrics Views counts views of the Metrics detail page for an article. Each switching to a different tab within
that page is included in the count.
Results Analyzer Views counts the use of the Scopus Results Analyzer. Each addition of result or change of tab is included
in the count.
Cited-By Clicks counts the number of times Cited-By searches have been run.
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