SCOPUSAn eye on global research

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What is SCOPUS

• Scopus launched in November 2004. It is the largest abstract andcitation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, booksand conference proceedings with bibliometrics tools to track, analyzeand visualize research.

• Updated daily, Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of theworld’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine,social sciences, and Arts & Humanities.

Source: www.elsevier.com/scopus

What content is included in Scopus?

64M records. 21,548 titles. 5,000 publishers.

Source: www.elsevier.com/scopus

Scopus Includes

• Over 64 million records

–39.5+ million post-1995 records, including references(84% includeabstracts)

–24+ million pre-1996 records going back as far as 1823

• Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals, of which more than 3,500 are fullGold Open Access http://bit.ly/1SrAf40

• More than 131,000 books http://bit.ly/2aLH1o8

– Including monographs, edited volumes, major reference works andgraduate level text books

–Focuses on social sciences and arts & humanities, but also includesscience, technology & medicine(STM)

Scopus Includes

• More than 540 book series

• Over 7.5 million Conference papers

• Over 320 trade publications

• Articles-in-press(i.e. articles that have been accepted for publication) fromover 3,750 titles from international publishers, including CambridgeUniversity Press, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE),Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and, of course,Elsevier.

Why is SCOPUS important in assessing the quality/caliber of the faculty research?

Academic Institutions

Scopus is designed to serve the research information needs of researchers,faculty, educators, administrators, students and librarians across the entireacademic community.

Scopus helps Faculty & Researchers to:

• Search for relevant topics/articles during the literature review phase

• Decide where to publish – analyze the top journals and authors in yourdiscipline

• Discover who is citing their publication

• Explore how many citations an article or author has received, andidentify potential collaborators

Scopus helps Faculty & Researchers to:

• Find information to support your grant or other applications

• The Scopus h-index and Citation Tracker helps to assess theperformance of the research for tenure applications and promotions

For Students:

Students need access to peer-reviewed literature so that they canproduce quality thesis and advance in their field of study. Scopusdelivers:

• targeted subject search results and guides students to the most relevantpapers with cited by counts.

Academic Institutions

Academic Institutions

Scopus helps Department Heads and Administrators to:

• Assess the research performance of individual researcher, faculty andinstitution and to make decisions about tenure and promotion of faculty.

• Allocate and prioritize financial resources to researchers or departmentsby tracking impact

• Promote their institute for funding and student and

faculty recruitment

• Create reports for key stakeholders

• Benchmark departments against each other

How Scopus recognition will help BRAC University enter global rankings?

University Rankings

“By showcasing the distinctive strengths of research institutions, rankingshelp students select their university of choice, faculty to make careerdecisions, and university leaders to discuss strategic priorities. They mayalso be used by the corporate world to guide industry investment inacademic partnerships”

Dr. Nick Fowler , Managing Director of Elsevier's Research Management division, Rankings provide a

more complete picture of worldwide research

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/rankings-provide-a-more-complete-picture-of-worldwide-research

University Rankings

There are multiple world university rankings available – with the best-known being the QS World University Rankings®, and Times HigherEducation World University Rankings and each one uses a differentmethodology. The results are used by universities as key performanceindicators and serve as a powerful communication tool.

Times Higher Education World University Rankingshttps://www.timeshighereducation.com

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the only globalperformance tables that judge research-intensive universities across alltheir core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer andinternational outlook. They use 13 carefully calibrated performanceindicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons,trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry andgovernments.

The performance indicators are grouped into five areas:

– Teaching (the learning environment): 30%

– Research (volume, income and reputation): 30%

– Citations (research influence): 30%

– International outlook (staff, students and research): 7.5%

– Industry income (knowledge transfer): 2.5%

Scopus and Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Research (volume, income and reputation): 30%

To measure productivity Times Higher Education counts the number ofpapers published in the academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopusdatabase per scholar, scaled for institutional size and normalised forsubject. This gives a sense of the university’s ability to get paperspublished in quality peer-reviewed journals.

Citations (research influence): 30%

The Times Higher Education examines research influence by capturingthe number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholarsglobally. In 2016-2017, THE World University Rankings examined morethan 56 million citations to 11.9 million journal articles, conferenceproceedings and books and book chapters published over five years.

Scopus and Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education examines research influence by capturingthe number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholarsglobally. In 2016-2017, THE World University Rankings examined morethan 56 million citations to 11.9 million journal articles, conferenceproceedings and books and book chapters published over five years.

QS World University Rankings®http://www.qs.com/qs-world-university-rankings.html

The QS World University Rankings assesses universities on sixperformance indicators, relating to research, teaching, employability andinternationalization. To be eligible for inclusion, institutions must teach atboth undergraduate and postgraduate level, and conduct work in at leasttwo of five broad faculty areas (arts and humanities; engineering andtechnology; social sciences and management; natural sciences; lifesciences and medicine).

–Academic reputation (worth 40% of the overall score)

–Employer reputation (10%)

–Student-to-faculty ratio (20%)

–Research citations per faculty member (20%)

–Proportion of international faculty (5%)

–Proportion of international students (5%)

Scopus and QS World University Rankings

Citations per faculty (20%)

• This indicator aims to assess universities’ research impact. A ‘citation’means a piece of research being cited (referred to) within another pieceof research. Generally, the more often a piece of research is cited, themore influential it is. So the more highly cited research papers auniversity publishes, the stronger its research output is considered.

• QS collects this information using Scopus, the world’s largest databaseof research abstracts and citations. The latest five complete years ofdata are used, and the total citation count is assessed in relation to thenumber of academic faculty members at the university, so that largerinstitutions do not have an unfair advantage. For the 2016-17rankings, QS analyzed 10.3 million research papers and 66.3 millioncitations from Scopus.

How to access SCOPUS through HINARI

How to Access Scopus:Step 01: To access Scopus please go to our library website

http://library.bracu.ac.bd/ and click on “Database A-Z’ tab marked with Red Square.

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Step 02: On “Database A-Z” please click on alphabet “S”

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Step 03: In Scopus section click on “Connect”.For Hinari Login User ID and Password please contact with the Librarian.

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Step 04: When Hinari webpage opens click on Login

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Step 05: Please login with User ID and Password provided by the Librarian

Request

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Step 06: After login please click on “Search inside Hinari full-text through database and article searching” marked with Red Square

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Step 07: In the Database list click on “SCOPUS”.

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Please Click to Continue

Step 08: In Scopus home page you can search your desired information using deferent search options

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Document SearchThis tab is the main search window of the homepage. To begin, enter the search terms in the space provided

Author Search- Choose the Author Search tab to search for a specific author by name.- Enter surname and initials or given name of author in the Author fields and a list of authors that

may match will be shown. You can also search in combination with his/her affiliation.

Affiliation Search

Under "Affiliation Search", enter the name of your desired institution

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To view affiliation detailsClick the affiliation name to display the Affiliation details page.

Viewing Affiliation Details- Affiliation details include the affiliation ID, name variations, address information,

research areas, documents published, sources the affiliation has published in, andcollaborating affiliations. This page also shows the institution's publicationsaccording to subject areas.

Viewing affiliation documentsTo view documents for one affiliation,click the number of documents linkfor that affiliation

Viewing affiliation documents:- On the Affiliation search results page, select the affiliations you want from the list.- To view the documents associated with your selected affiliations, click Show documents - If you click on the number of documents, a list of documents by this institution will be displayed.

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Document Search/ Sorting Options & Refining a Search-If needed, further refine your search results by year, subject area, ordocument type, etc.

Document Search/ Sorting Options & Refining a Search- Analyze Search Results, Number of Search Results, Search within Results,

Displays the number of documents results, Batch Processing Results( Export,Download, View Citation Overview, View cited by, Create Bibliography andmore), Display Document Details Page, Link to Full Text and Sort Options.

Analysis/Citation OverviewAnalyze citations by clicking View citation overview. This will display, in tableformat, the number of citations per year for each article. This multipurpose toolallows you tosee at a glance the citation trend for any given article

Scopus Analysis/Citation Overview

Scopus Analysis/Citation Overview

Analysis/Analyze ResultsAnalyze citations by clicking View citation overview. This will display, in tableformat, the number of citations per year for each article. This multipurpose toolallows you tosee at a glance the citation trend for any given article

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Scopus Analysis/Analyze Results

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Scopus Analysis/Analyze Results

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ScopusAuthor Tools/Author DetailsDisplays the author’s articles, affiliation, document that cite the author, h-index and can analyze the citations

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