43. Scopus has been selected by various Ranking Systems worldwide such as
THE, QS, US-News (Arab Rankings) and Financial Times
All content vigorously vetted by an independent, 15-person, international
board of experts called the Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB)
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals including 3,715 full open access journals
Titles from 105 different countries in all geographical regions,
40 “local” languages covered
From more than 5,000 international publishers
Articles-in-Press from over 3,750 journals
Egyptian Knowledge Bank
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JOURNALS CONFERENCES BOOKS PATENTS
Physical
Sciences
7,443
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals
360 trade publications
7.3M conference
papers from 90,000
worldwide events
531 book series 27M patents
from 5 major
patent offices
Health
Sciences
6,795
▪ Full metadata, abstracts and
cited references (references
back to 1970 by 2016)
▪ Over 3,700 full open access
journals
▪ Going back to 1823
▪ Funding data from
acknowledgements
More than 120,000
books with 15k-20k
new books added
per year;
Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H
▪ UK
▪ US
▪ Japan
▪ World
▪ EU
Social
Sciences
8,066
Coverage recently
expanded in mainly
Engineering and
Computer Sciences
Life
Sciences
4,492
▪ Scopus currently has over 61 million core records:
Over 38 million records back to 1996 of which 84% include references
Over 22 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823 (abstracts included
where available; references will be included on records back to 1970 by the end of
2016)
▪ Approximately 3 million new records are added each year (5,500/day)
▪ Connectivity with ORCID and Independent journal metrics:
SNIP: The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
SJR: The SCImago Journal Rank
What content does Scopus include?
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March 2017.
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March 2017.
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Publishers". Information Today, Inc. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
Jump up^ "Egypt government seeking to fix 'damage' to education system". Times Higher
Education: World University Rankings. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
Jump up^"NEWS@AUC | Faculty: Reform Requires Change in the Mindset of Educators,
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