Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, offering access to over 21,500 titles and 46 million records across various fields. The database features include daily updates, citation tracking, and coverage of both serial and non-serial sources, as well as patents. The guide is updated annually to reflect content coverage and policies, with the current numbers being accessible on its info site.

1. SCOPUS

2. INTRODUCTION
• Scopus launched in November 2004. It is the largest
abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature,
featuring smart tools to track, analyze and visualize
research. With over 21,500 titles from more than 5,000
international publishers, Scopus delivers themost
comprehensive overview of theworld’s research
output in thefields of science, technology,
medicine, social science and arts and humanities.

3. Features of the database
• Covers scientific literature citations and web resources
• Content updated daily
• 46 million records
• Over 18,000 titles
• Includes conference papers and proceedings, scientific web
pages, and patents

4. Other Features
• Citations
- Total number of citations received by journal in each year
• Docs
- Total number of documents published in the journal in
each year
• Percent Not Cited
- Percentage of articles not cited in each year
• Percent Reviews
- Percentage of articles that are review

5. Coverage of source types
1 Serial source types
• Journals
• Trade journals
• Book series
• Conference material
2 Non-serial sources
A non-serial source is a publication with an ISBN unless it is a report, part of a book
series, proceeding (non-serial) or patent. It can have differentphysical formats (e.g.,
print, electronic) and is usually a monograph or composed work.

6. 3 Other sources
Secondary documents
In Scopus, approximately 90 million records are non-core,
or secondary documents. These are records that have been
cited in Scopus core records, but are not themselves
indexed in Scopus. The most highly cited of these non-core
items are often books and older journal articles.
Patents
There are over 27 million patent records derived
from five patent offices availablein Scopus

7. Subjects covered under scopus
• Advances in Applied Probability
• Advances in decision Sciences
• Alea
• American Statistician
• Probability and Statistics
• Annals of applied probability
• Annals of Applied Statistics
• Annals of probability
• Annals of statistics
• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
• Bayesian Analysis
• Bernoulli
• Bioinformatics etc.

8. Conclusion
• This guide is updated annually and is designed to provide a complete
overview of the content coverage in Scopus and corresponding
policies. As Scopus is updated daily, the numbers
presented in thisguide may differ from current
numbers. To find up-to-date contentnumbers, please refer
to the contentpage of our info site:
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content. The numbers
presented on the info site are updated regularly throughout the year.