In 2018, the SciELO Program will celebrate 20 years of operation, in full alignment with the advances of open science. The SciELO 20 Years Conference will address and debate – during its three-day program – the main political, methodological and technological issues that define today’s state of the art in scholarly communication and the trends and innovations that is shaping the future of the universal openness of scholarly publishing and its relationship with today’s Open Access journals, in particular those of the SciELO Network. The program of the conference is organized around the alignment of SciELO journals and operations with the best practices on communication of open science, such as publishing research data, expediting editorial processes and communication through the continuous publication of articles and the adoption of preprints, maximizing the transparency of research evaluation and the flow of scholarly communication, and searching for more comprehensive systems for assessing research, articles and journals. A two-day meeting of the coordinators of the national collections of the SciELO Network will take place prior to the Conference with focus on the evaluation of SciELO journals and the SciELO Program and their improvement following the lines of action that will guide their development in the forthcoming five years. The celebration of SciELO’s 20-year anniversary constitutes an important landmark in SciELO’s evolution, and an exceptional moment to promote the advancement of an inclusive, global approach to scholarly communication and to the open access movement while respecting the diversities of thematic and geographic areas, as well as of languages of scientific research.

1. The power of Scopus
Susanne Steiginga, MSc.
Senior Product Manager Scopus Content
SciELO 20 Years, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 26-28 2018
Visibility, Interoperability & Credibility

2. Agenda
• Introduction & Visibility of your research
• Interoperability between products and researchers
• Credibility: there are multiple ways of being excellent
• ‘The rule of three’

3. Introduction & visibility
of your research
Scopus and the high quality content
indexed

4. Scopus is the world’s largest research analytics platform curated by editorially-independent
subject experts, and features smart tools that allow you to track, analyze and visualize
scholarly research.
5000+
Publishers
Scopus delivers a comprehensive view on the world of research.
No packages, no add-ons. One all-inclusive subscription.
23,500+
Serial titles
180,000
Books
72 million
Items
16 million
Author profiles
~70,000
Affiliation Profiles
1.4 billion cited references
dating back to 1970
Identify and analyze which
journals to read/submit to
Help researchers manage career-
citation counts and h-index
Decide what, where and with
whom to collaborate
Track impact of research;
monitor global research trends
Find out what already exists in
the global world of research
Determine how to differentiate
research topics, find ideas

5. Scholarly Global Representation – All Subject Areas
Scopus includes content from more than 5,000 publishers and 105
different countries
• 40 different languages covered
• Updated daily
• Global representation of content from around the world (journals, conferences, books, book series)
Source: Scopus.com, September 2018
23,507
Peer-reviewed journals
301
Trade journals
3,784
Active Gold Open Access
journals
>8,000
Articles in Press
Full metadata, abstracts
and cited references
Physical
Sciences
12,263
Health
Sciences
13,819
Social
Sciences
10,905
Life
Sciences
6,809
106K
Conference events
8.3M
Conference papers
Mainly Engineering and
Computer Sciences
613
Book series
38K
Volumes
1.5M
Items
179,429
Stand-alone books
1.34M
Items
Focus on Social Sci and A&H
Number of
Journals by
subject area Journals Conference Books
Interesting facts:
• SciELO DB overall = 50%+
actively covered in Scopus
• SciELO Brazil Journal
selection = 72% actively
covered in Scopus

6. How does content end up in Scopus?
Strict content selection criteria
A rigorous Scopus content selection (& Re-evaluation) process to ensure
that Scopus content is of the best quality
Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB)

7. Globally used in research assessment by over 4,000 organizations and 150
funding & assessment bodies which equals over 60% market share
Rankings:
Reach NC
MD AndersonNew Jersey
Economic
Development
Authority
National
Science
Foundation
CAPES Brazil
European
Commission
& ERC
FCT Portugal
Italy ANVUR
Kiel
University
Danish BFI
Germany IFQ
Nigerian
Government
Gazi
University
UK REF UK BIS Queen’s
University
Belfast
STINT Russian
Foundation
for Basic
Research
Ural
Federal
University
ISTIC
IISER
Peking
University
Keio
University
TCI-Thailand
NRF-
Korea
Nanyang
Technologica
University
UK BEIS
Japan
NIAD-QE

8. Check yourself how visible your research is via our open (free)
Profile pages & Open (free) Journal Source pages

9. Interoperability
The value of international
collaboration and products
working together

10. International collaboration (Article, Review, Conference Paper)
With a collaboration rate of >49%, South Africa has the highest international collaboration rate
of all BRICS countries. Over 30% of all 2017 research published by Brazilian affiliations was
via an international collaboration.
Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (September 2018), powered by SciVal

11. International collaboration leads to increase of Field Weighted Citation
Impact (FWCI)
Collaboration
FWCI
Country FWCI Co-authored
publications
6.24 Russian
Federation
0.75 2,216
6.61 India 0.80 2,429
5.27 China 0.96 3,405
7.33 South Africa 1.28 1,598
Brazil
FWCI = 0.91
Source: Scopus data (September 2018), powered by SciVal

12. Next to researchers internationally
collaborating, products collaborate too
leading to greatness

13. Advantages of interoperability between PlumX Metrics & Scopus –
Show your SciELO citation counts in Scopus

14. 9-10-2018
Sponosored Ranking Events - attendees analysis

15. Credibility
There are multiple ways of being
excellent next to receiving citations

16. Received citations are the standard way to measure
excellence: CiteScore is a simple & free metric for all
Scopus serials
B
CiteScore Impact Factor
A = citations to 3 years of
documents
A = citations to 2 or 5 years of
documents
B = all documents indexed in
Scopus, same as A
B = only citable items (articles
and reviews), different from A
CiteScore 2017 value
B
=
A

17. CiteScore is one of a family of related metrics

18. Source: Scopus (September 2018)
There are multiple ways of being excellent besides citations – PLUM

19. Source: Scopus (September 2018)
There are multiple ways of being excellent besides citations

20. Conclusion – ‘The rule of three’
• Visibility – Scopus indexes content from around the globe and covers >70% of the
SciELO Brazil Journal selection. Over 60% of the market will have access your research
when indexed in Scopus giving you strong visibility.
• Interoperability – International collaboration increases your FWCI and makes it more
impactful. Scopus showcases your SciELO citations via the direct PLUM integration.
• Credibility – There are more ways to be excellent, next to receiving citations and having a
high CiteScore, non-citation based metrics like Media Mentions, Usage, Social Media and
Captures via PLUM tell an additional value story.

21. Obrigada!
Susanne Steiginga, MSc.
Sr. Product Manager Scopus Content
s.steiginga@elsevier.com