Scopus is Elsevier's comprehensive abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature across various fields, launched in November 2004. It serves researchers, academic institutions, funding agencies, and more by providing a vast repository of information, with tools for analysis and visualization of research outputs. Scopus is updated daily and includes over 64 million content records from 21,568 journal titles, allowing users to track developments and assess performance in the academic landscape.

1. Qaiser Iqbal
Assistant Manager, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Gad and Birgit Rausing Library
LUMS
qaiser.iqbal@lums.edu.pk

2. Contents• SCOPUS
• Who Uses Scopus?
• Documents Types Index in Scopus
• Subject Coverage & Global Coverage
• Publishers Indexed in Scopus
• Features
• Contents Index in Scopus
• CSAB (Content Selection Advisory Board)
• ORCID Integration with SCOPUS
• SCOPUS vs WoS

3. Looking to
find & evaluate
the right research?
Scopus has you covered

4. Scopus?
• Scopus is Elsevier’s (Product) abstract and citation database
launched in November 2004
• Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-
reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference
proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's
research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine,
social sciences, arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools
to track, analyze and visualize research.

5. Scopus? Researchers’ s Opinions
“Scopus is very customer-friendly… You get more information from all different fields. It
saves a lot of time.”
Chris, Head of R&D, Diagnostic Testing, Scopus user
“Scopus informs every phase of the editorial process. I would not want to do this job
without it, and I intend to continue using it throughout my career.”
William, Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee

6. Who Uses Scopus?
• Academic Institutions Scopus is designed to serve the
information needs of researchers, educators, students,
administrators and librarians across the entire academic
community.
• Government & Funding Agencies Scopus data can help
guide your agency or institute's overall strategic direction, assess
its status relative to other institutions, identify funding resources,
enable collaboration and measure researcher performance.
• Research & Development Scopus can help you stay abreast
of scientific developments, track key research, identify key
opinion leaders and stay ahead of your competition.
• Developers Elsevier's API program allows you to integrate
content and data from Scopus into your own website and
applications.

7. Who Uses Scopus?
• Ranking Organizations Scopus provides Ranking Organizations with a reliable and comprehensive source for
research performance data and analytics. Scopus data is used to calculate the influential QS World University
Rankings, Times Higher Education (THE) US World News & World Report's Best Arab Region Universities Rankings,
and the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy etc.
• Reports & Assessments Through the bibliometric expertise of Research Intelligence, and the extensive data
sources available in Scopus, we can help your organization:
 Enhance Research Performance Engage in data-driven strategic planning and benchmark
performance to maximize efficiency and impact of research enterprises
 Support Data Standards Facilitate in data sharing across systems and increase productivity
throughout the research community
 Investigate Grand Challenges Collaborate with institutions to address major societal challenges such
as food and water security, alternative energy and breast cancer

8. Documents Types Index in Scopus
Indexing in Scopus
• Article
• Book
• Chapter
• Conference Paper
• Editorial
• Erratum
• Letter
• Notes
• Review
Not Indexing in Scopus
• Book Reviews
• Conference meeting
• Abstract

9. Turn to Scopus, the world’s most connected research database
64+ million
Content records
21,568
Journal titles
5,000
publishers
7.5 million
Conference papers,
from over 90,000
global events
Scopus is updated daily so you never miss the latest information.
131,000+
Book titles

10. Health
Sciences
31%
Turn to Scopus for broad coverage across all subject areas
Search across 12,900+ Health Science titles; 31% of Scopus publications.

11. Physical
Sciences
29%
Search across 11,800+ Physical Science titles; 29% of Scopus publications.

12. Social
Sciences
25%
Search across 10,000+ Social Science titles, including arts & humanities.

13. Life
Sciences
15%
Search across 6,300+ Life Science titles; 15% of Scopus publications.

14. Scopus is updated daily so you never miss the latest information.
17%are active
Gold Open Access
titles
Out of 21,568
Journal titles…

15. Scopus is updated daily so you never miss the latest information.
17%are active
Gold Open Access
titles

16. Scopus Global Coverage

17. Publishers indexed in Scopus

18. Features
Discover
• Document search
• Author search
• Affiliation search
• Advanced search
• Refine results
Scopus APIs
• Analyze search
results
• Compare journals
• Article metric module
• Citation overview
• Author profile page
Search
• Alert
• Browse sources
• My list
• Reference managers
• View cited by
• View references
• Elsevier's API program allows you
to integrate content and data from
Scopus into your own website and
applications
Analyze

19. Contents Index in Scopus
Across all research fields — science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and
medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities — Scopus delivers the broadest
overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information.
 Journals
 Trade journals
 Book series
 Conference material
 Conference material (A non-serial source is a publication with an ISBN)
 Secondary documents
 Patents

20. Scopus Content at-a-glance

21. Contents (Historical Depth)

22. The Content Selection & Advisory Board comprises 17 subject chairs who are senior researchers, experienced in editorial
roles, and are responsible for reviewing all the serial titles within a specific subject area.
The subject chairs have the clear ownership per title in their respective area, and are ultimately responsible for the final
vote as to whether a new journal title is included on Scopus. Subject chairs can choose to either: Reject/ Accept the
submitted title based on his/her own judgment according to the Content Coverage Policy
Journal Selection Criteria in Scopus
Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP)
The Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP) is a web-based editorial system, streamlining the entire title evaluation process
from submission until the final decision, including the feedback to the suggestor and publisher/ editor of newly suggested
titles
Content Selection Advisory Board (CSAB)

23.  Consist of peer reviewed content
 Be publish on regular basis
 Have ISSN number
 English Language
 The STEP enables the CSAB members to evaluate and add new titles on a continues basis and establish reliable turnaround.
 Journal Policy ;
 Convincing editorial policy
 Diversity in geographical distribution of editors
 English language abstracts
• Content;
 Academic contribution to the field
 Clarity of abstracts
 Conformity with the journal’s stated aims and scope
 Readability of articles
 Regularity;
 No delay in the publication schedule
 Online availability;
 Online content available
 English language journal homepage
Criteria for Title Selection

24. CSAB (Content Selection Advisory Board)

25. • A Scopus Author ID is automatically assigned to you when you have published a work covered in Scopus. You
may have more than one ID in Scopus if you have published under variant names and affiliations. It is always a
good practice to merge your multiple Scopus IDs and keep all your works listed under one unique ID. This
ensures that your total citation counts and h-index in Scopus are accurate.
• An easy way to do this is to integrate your ORCID with your Scopus Author ID
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Integration with Scopus