Scopus for Authors

TITLE OF PRESENTATION
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Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier. m.kurschildgen@elsevier.com
Scopus
A Changing World of Research
31st January 2017
National University of Ireland Galway

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Your Own strategic Career Plan
and how Scopus can help you with that
Find out what already exists in the global world of research output
Determine how to differentiate research topics and find new ideas
Decide what, where and with whom to partner or collaborate with
Track impact of research; monitor global research trends
Identify and analyze which journals to read or where to submit an article
Help researchers manage their career through citation counts, Alternative Metrics
and the h-index

22,245 serial titles
Over 61 Million Records
(including 6.83M Conference Records)
Content > 5.000 publisheres
North &
South
America
34%
Europe,
Middle East
& Africa
54%
Asia,
Australia,
and Pacific
13%
30%
32%
23%
15%
Physical Sciences
Health Sciences
Social Sciences
Life Sciences
What is Scopus?
The largest abstract and
citation database of research
information
5.5K new
records daily =
2 Million a
year

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CONFERENCES
80K events
6.8M records >10%
Conf. expansion:
1,000 conferences
6,000 conf. events
400k conf. papers
5M citations
Mainly Engineering
and Physical
Sciences
BOOKS
>400 book series
- 28K Volumes
- 1.0M items
>120,000 books
Mainly on Social
Sciences and A&H
PATENTS
24M patents
from 5 major
patent offices:
• UK
• US
• Japan
• Europe
• World
JOURNALS
22,245 peer-reviewed journals
400 trade journals
• Full metadata, abstracts and
cited references (references for
post-1995 only)
• >3,700 fully Open Access titles
• Going back to 1823
• Funding data from
acknowledgements
Physical
Sciences
7,456
Health
Sciences
6,834
Social
Sciences
8,042
Life
Sciences
4,509
What content does Scopus include?
Source: Scopus title list (November 2014)

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• In Royal Society research, there is
significant growth in research from
emerging markets, including China
(505%), India (98%), Turkey (366%)
and Brazil (159%).
• In contrast, countries in North America
and Western Europe, which
traditionally have a large scientific
output, have lower growth rates.
Source: http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/knowledge-networks-nations/?f=1
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
China United States Japan Brazil South Korea
United Kingdom Germany France India Italy
Research is increasingly collaborative across geographical boundaries.
Importance of a global perspective

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Scopus also adds more intelligence from mining additional data.
Mendeley readership
Statistics shows how
many times
Mendeley users have
downloaded a
specific article to their
libraries.
Scopus assists with
forwards and
backwards citation
research by identifying
not only an article’s
cited references but
also its citing
references.
Mendeley is a free reference
manager and academic social
network that can help you
organize your research,
collaborate with others online,
and discover the latest research.
Now indexing
citation data
back to 1970!

ORCID, unique ID for researchers
ORCID aims to solve the name
ambiguity problem in research and
scholarly communications by
creating a central registry of
unique identifiers for individual
researchers.
Dr. James Smith
46533489
Dr. Smith
Dr. J. Smith
Dr. James Smith

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Authors can use Scopus to populate their ORCID
profile via Scopus Author Profiles, the
Scopus2ORCID Wizard at
orcid.scopusfeedback.com or from ORCID!
Scopus has fully-integrated with ORCID

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Author and Affiliation Profiles
Affiliation Profile
• Algorithm: 99% precision, 95% recall
• Manual reassignment on feedback for
100% precision
• Algorithm: 99% precision, 93% recall
• Manual reassignment on feedback from
official authority of affiliation for 100%
precision
Author Profile

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Let’s go online

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Registering a Personal Profile
and logging into Scopus

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Registering a Personal Profile:
• Although Scopus uses IP verification, you can
get the best out of it and save a lot of research
time by creating your own Personal Profile.
• Your Personal Profile allows you to:
• Save searches for later references
• Create search alerts
• Create citation alerts to specific articles
• Save lists of selected articles
• Save your own groups of author names
• Request corrections to your Author Profile

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Enter your details
Choose your password
Click on register
Define your primary
field(s) of interest

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Take your new
username and log
in here. An e-mail
has also been sent
to you with your
username and
confirmation of your
password.

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Settings
After you log in, you can
access all your personal
information in “My Scopus

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Different options of search:
• Document search:
• Recommended for most users
• Author search:
• Recommended for information about specific authors,
their articles and citations
• Affiliation search:
• Recommended for the output of specific institutions
• Advanced search:
• Recommended for librarians and users experienced with
complex query building

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Search tips
Booleans: And / Or / And Not
Order of precedence rules
Searches with multiple operators are processed in the following order:
• OR
• AND
• AND NOT
All these searches...
KEY (mouse OR rat AND rodent)
KEY (rodent AND rat OR mouse)
KEY (rat OR mouse AND rodent)
KEY(mouse OR rat) AND rodent

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Search tips
Exact phrase:
{oyster toadfish}
Loose phrase:
"heart attack“
where heart and attack are adjacent to each other.
Wildcards as
characters:
{health care?}
returns results such as: Who pays for health
care?
"criminal* insan*“
Asterix :finds criminally insane and criminal
insanity.
Proximity operators
pain W/15 morphine
finds articles in which "pain" and "morphine" are no
more than 15 terms apart
behavioural PRE/3 disturbances
finds articles in which "behavioural" precedes
"disturbances" by three or fewer words.
http://help.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2370/p/8150/c/7956,8732/related/1

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• Analyze results
• Output options: Save, Download, Export, Print, E-mail,
• Create a bibliography, add to my list
• Citation overview
Managing results

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Limit your search by
publication year,
discipline or type of
content
Enter the search terms
and combine them with
Boolean operators.
Choose the field where
the term must be
searched.
The default fields are:
title, abstract and
keywords

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Refine your results
Limit to or exclude results based on lists of Source titles,
Author names, Year, Document Type, Subject area,
Keywords, Language, Source Type or Affiliation
AND/OR
Search within your results

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Citation overview: possible applications
• Grant application for research groups
• Recruitment
• Evaluation of a university, department or research
group’s scientific output
• Choosing a mentor for a master or PhD program
• It can be added to author’s CV or homepage

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- Real-time calculation of citations overview for:
• A selection of articles
• A selection of articles or all the articles by one specific author
• All articles published by one specific journal for a given year
- All citation counts and links to articles are displayed on the same screen
- Easy to print and export
Citation Overview: what is it?

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How to use it: go online
Select the articles to be analyzed:
• Run a keyword/author/affiliation search and select the articles
from results, or
• Search/browse for the journal you want to analyze
• From the results list or journal page, click on:
• You can also save this list of articles for future reference
and print or export the Citation Overview

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Find out what is being cited and from where
View a citation overview of
the selected documents
View documents citing
the selected documents

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Find the best journal to submit your paper
Which journal publishes most articles on
your research topic?
Following a Scopus search on
your research
topic, the “Refine results”
window displays a listing of
all journals publishing
articles on your research topic
and the numbers of articles on
your topic included
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Find potential collaborating institutes
Which institute publishes most articles on
your research topic, the “Refine
results” window displays a listing
of all names of institutes where
authors work who publish on
you research topic and the
numbers of articles on your topic
per institute
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Find potential co-authors
Which author publishes most articles on
your research topic, the “Refine
results” window displays a listing
of all authors who publish in
your research topic and the
numbers of articles on your topic
per author
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Analyzing search results
Scopus provides an analysis of your
search results. The analysis shows you the
number of documents in your
search results broken down (on separate
tabs)

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Scopus Analytics
Compare your target journals
You can use the Journal Analyzer to compare up to 10 Scopus
sources on a variety of parameters: SJR, ÏPP, SNIP, citations,
documents, and percentage of documents not cited.
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Scopus Analytics
Select the journal(s) you want to
evaluate
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At the Browse sources home page, click Compare journals. The
Journal Analyzer opens with the source added to the analyzer.

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Scopus Analytics
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
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Developed by Felix de Moya (Spain).SJR
is a prestigue metric and weights citations
according to the status of the citing
journal. It is based on the idea that all
citations are not created equal. With SJR
the subject field, quality and reputation
of the journal has a direct effect on the
value of the citation.
• A source transfers its own 'prestige', or
status, to another source through the
act of citing it.
• A citation from a source with a
relatively high SJR is worth
more than a citation from a
source with a lower SJR.
• 1=average value for this field, <1 below
average for this field, <1 above
average for its field
http://www.journalmetrics.com/sjr.php

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Scopus Analytics
IPP (Impact per Paper)
The IPP metric is
using a citation
window of three
years which is
considered to be
the optimal time
period to
accurately
measure citations
in most subject
fields

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Scopus Analytics
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
Developed by Henk Moed at
CWS, Univ of Leiden (NL). SNIP
is weighting citations based on
the total number of citations in a
subject field.
The impact of a single citation is
given a higher value in subject
areas where citations are less
likely, and vice versa.
E.g. high citation behaviour in
Life Sciences, now citation
behaviour in Social Sciences
34http://www.journalmetrics.com/snip.php

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Scopus Analytics
The number of times a source has been cited
in a year.
If a total of 50 articles
has been published in
the source over the last
5 years and 10 of those
articles have been cited
once in the current
year, then the total
number of citations for
the year would be 10.
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Scopus Analytics
The total number of documents published in
the journal in the year

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Scopus Analytics
The percentage of articles not cited
Compare sources by
the percentage of
documents published in
a year that have never
been cited to date.
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Scopus Analytics
The percentage of documents in the year that are review
articles
Compare sources by
the percentage of
documents published in
a year that are review
articles

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ORCID: Author Profile 2.0
since October 2012
• Open
• Researcher &
• Contributor
• ID
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-
driven effort to create and maintain a registry
of unique researcher identifiers and a
transparent method of linking research
activities and outputs to these identifiers.
ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across
disciplines, research sectors and national
boundaries. It is a hub that connects
researchers and research through the
embedding of ORCID identifiers in key
workflows, such as research profile
maintenance, manuscript submissions, grant
applications, and patent applications.
www.orcid.org

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Dr. James Smith
46533489
ORCID Mission:
ORCID aims to solve the name
ambiguity problem in research
and scholarly communications by
creating a central registry of
unique identifiers for individual
researchers
The Solution: The ORCID Registry
Dr. Smith
Dr. J. Smith
Dr. James Smith

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Authors can use Scopus to populate their ORCID
profile via Scopus Author Profiles, the
Scopus2ORCID Wizard at
orcid.scopusfeedback.com or from ORCID!

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ORCID link in the new Author Profile (May release)

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How to use research metrics
and why Scopus offers a basket
of metrics

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Journal Analyzer: what is it?
• Journal Analyzer gives users a comparative overview of the
journal landscape, showing how titles in a given field are
performing relative to each other
• The objective data is presented in an easy, comprehensive
graphical format comparing citations of max. 10 journals from
over 22,000 peer reviewed journals from today all the way
back to 1970.
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Where available, article-level metrics are captured for
all articles in Scopus

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Multiple types of article-level metrics provide a more
complete view of the performance of an article

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Integration of article level metrics into Scopus
Launching on 29 July, Scopus’ Article
Metrics module provides a concise
overview of a selection of key citation
impact and community engagement
metrics (altmetrics). Accessible from
the sidebar on document details pages,
the module allows users to rapidly
evaluate specific research articles

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Putting the article front and center
Engagement Metrics
Scholarly Activity –Downloads and
posts in common research tools such
as Mendeley and CiteULike.
Scholarly Commentary – Reviews,
articles and blogs by experts and
scholars, such as F1000 Prime,
research blogs, and Wikipedia.
Mass Media – Coverage of research
output in the Mass Media
Social Activity – Mentions
characterized by rapid, brief
engagement on platforms used by
the general population, such as
Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

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The basket of journal metrics

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When used correctly, research metrics together with qualitative
input give a balanced, multi-dimensional view for decision-
making
Two Golden Rules for using research metrics
Always use both qualitative
and quantitative input into
your decisions
Always use more than one
research metric as the
quantitative input

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A basket of metrics for research excellence
Available for articles, researchers, journals, institutions, subject fields…
Theme Sub-theme
A. Funding Awards
B. Outputs Productivity of research outputs
Visibility of communication channels
C. Research Impact Research influence
Knowledge transfer
D. Engagement Academic network
Non-academic network
Expertise transfer
E. Societal Impact Societal Impact
F.Qualitativeinput

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Filling the gap in the Scopus basket of journal metrics
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 Compensates for differences in
field, type and age
 Meaningful benchmark is “built in”
– 1 is average for a subject area
× People may not like small numbers
× Complicated; difficult to validate
× No idea of magnitude: how many
citations does it represent?
 Large number
 Simple, easy to validate
 Communicates magnitude of
activity
× Affected by differences in field,
type and age
× Meaningless without additional
benchmarking
withSNIP and SJR
CiteScore
and associated metrics

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More accuracy, transparency, more metrics

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More accuracy, transparency, more metrics
CiteScore
Citation per document
CiteScore Percentile
Relative position
within subject
field based on
CiteScore
SNIP
Relative citations
per document
SJR
Prestige of citing
Sources
Scopus journal metrics

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Differences in citation potential between fields
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10
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20
30
40
50
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Number of received citations
Reference
lists
%ofpapers
Molecular Biology Mathematics

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5
Mathematics & Computer Sciences
Social Sciences
Materials Science & Engineering
Biological Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Earth Sciences
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Physics
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Clinical Medicine
Neuroscience
Fundamental Life Sciences
Mean Impact Factor
Impact Factors in context: Subject Area

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CiteScore is a simple metric for all Scopus journals
B
Note: at launch, all titles in the May 2016 title list, and with some documents indexed in 2016, will have CiteScore metrics
CiteScore 2015 value
B
=
A
Citations in 2015
Documents from 3 years
20122011 2013 2014 2015 2016
A
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

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SNIP: Source-normalized impact per paper
Molecular Cell: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
IPP

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SJR: SCImago Journal Rank

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Advantages of CiteScore metrics
CurrentTransparentComprehensive
Based on Scopus, the
world’s broadest abstract
and citation database
CiteScore metrics will be
available for all serial titles,
not just journals
CiteScore metrics could be
calculated for portfolios
CiteScore metrics will be
available for free
CiteScore metrics are easy
to calculate for yourself
The underlying database
is available for you to
interrogate
CiteScore Tracker is
updated monthly
New titles will have
CiteScore metrics the year
after they are indexed in
Scopus

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Compare journals

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List of titles
http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview

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List of titles
http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview

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Where to find further
information

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• Scopus info site: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus
• Support and training:
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/support
• Scopus title list:
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content

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Thank you
Elsevier.com/Scopus
Questions?
m.kurschildgen@elsevier.com

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