1. Scopus Supporting Excellence in Research and Learning

2. What is SciVerse? Integrated Content & Discovery Tools Productivity-Enhancing Applications

3. What is SciVerse Scopus? The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. More than 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers worldwide Over 43 million records, 23 million patents from 5 patent offices worldwide SciVerse Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific web in its search results with: 435 million scientific web pages Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories, digital archives and special subject collections

4. Broadest source for research answers 17,800 Peer reviewed journals 600 Trade journals 350 Book series A rich and extended coverage including Abstracts and citations from > 5000 publishers 3,6 Million conference papers (10% of Scopus records) “Articles in Press” from more than 3000 titles 23 Million Patents 1,200 Open Access journals 80% of all Scopus records have an abstract Abstracts going back to 1823 40 languages covered 380 m integrated scientific websites via Scirus.com – Chief librarian, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations > 18,500 titles “It is broader in scope but also richer in different kinds of content. It is much easier to use and therefore has more immediate impact.”

5. Breadth of coverage across subject areas More than 18,500 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area Social Sciences 6,250 Psychology Economics Business A&H etc., Health Sciences 5,950 (100% Medline) Nursing Dentistry etc., Physical Sciences 5,300 Chemistry Physics Engineering etc., Life Sciences 3,700 Neuroscience Pharmacology Biology etc.,

6. Quality selection by an independent, international board

7. Journal policy English language abstracts available All cited references in Roman alphabet Convincing editorial concept/policy Level of peer-review Diversity in provenance of editors Diversity in provenance of authors Quality of content Academic contribution to the field Clarity of abstracts Conformity with journal’s aims & scope Readability of articles Citedness Citedness of journal articles in Scopus Citedness of editors in Scopus Regularity No delay in publication schedule Accessibility Content available online English-language journal home page Quality of home page Eligibility Peer-review English abstracts Regular publication Scopus selection criteria a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures

8. Broader coverage than nearest peer Scopus (Total: 19,981) Web of Science (Total: 11,456) 9,458<89610,523 www.jisc-adat.com “The Scopus surplus”

9. Breadth of coverage across geographical areas l Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape In Thousands Nearest competitorScopus

10. Broader coverage means more citations Number of citations to most cited articles in WoS and Scopus Scopus has on average 10% more citations per article >7,000 citations for these examples In Thousands Nearest competitorScopus

11. How do you cope with the explosion of information? Source:Outsell, Inc “STM End-User Survey Part 1 – Scientists and Engineers” - Volume 3, June 11, 2009 College Students’ Perceptions of the Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership. Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2006 Trends in the information age Science is getting more competitive, more international and more inter-disciplinary What about the quality of information? Less time to do more research Researchers spend 10.7 hours per week in 2009 finding information compared to 5.5 hours in 2006 36% of online searches fail to find relevant information 89% college students use Google to search literature only 2% start from a library web site 84% of researchers report an increase in pressure to deliver more quickly than a year ago – Study of the British Library and JISC “Many young people do not find library-sponsored resources intuitive and therefore prefer to use Google or Yahoo instead – These offer a familiar, if simplistic solution, for their study needs.”

12. Refine and Analyse Your Results

13. Scopus as a research evaluation solution...

15. Refine and Analyse Your Results

20. Affiliation Identifier

21. Affiliation profile in Scopus

24. Refine and Analyse Your Results

27. Author Identifier

29. The Hirsch index The Hirsch or h-index is rapidly becoming viewed as an alternative measure to the impact factor for performance evaluation. Published by Jorge E. Hirsch in August 2005 Popular with academic community Can be calculated easily using the Citation Tracker and the search result page searching options.

30. H-Index in the author details page

31. The H-index: a definition ‘The H-index is the highest number of papers a scientist has that have at least that number of citations.’ Nature (2005)

32. H-Index in the author details page

33. Currently in the market? – Impact Factor Impact Factor pros Easy to understand Pervasive - stranglehold Impact Factor cons Little transparency – underlying database not publicly available – Impact Factors cannot be reconstructed Citation windows available are biased 2 years favours rapidly moving fields 5 years favours slowly moving fields Subject field differences* Easy to mislead and manipulate* (*more on next slides)

34. SJR and SNIP are strong metrics SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Prestige metric – similar to Google PageRank Citations are weighted depending on the status of the source they come from Developed by SCImago (Felix de Moya) -University of Granada Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) SNIP measures contextual citation impact Every citation is counted as 1 citation – similar to Impact Factor SNIP is field normalized, dependent on likelihood of citation in subject field of source Developed by Henk Moed, CWTS -Leiden University.

35. Journal metrics fully integrated in Scopus

36. Analytics function in Scopus

38. Online Demo

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