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Using SciVerse Scopus as a Research and Publishing Tool

Universiti Teknologi PetronasMarch 2012 Ling Yu Lang

www.scopus.com

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Focused web

information

Academic library

sources

19,500 titles

5,000 publishers

STM & Social sciences

World’s Largest

Abstract & Citation

Database

15% Elsevier sources

85% other publishers

375 million

scholarly

Web items,

E-prints,

theses,

Dissertations,

patents

Fastest route to FullText

SciVerse Scopus at a glance

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SciVerse Scopus: the Broadest of STM and Social Sciences Information

5,3005,3004,3004,3007,2007,2006,8006,800

Life & Health(100% Medline)

ChemistryPhysicsEngineering

BiologicalAgriculturalEnvironmental

Social SciencesPsychologyEconomics

> 5,000 publishers

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Content Type• 46 million records

– 25 million records include references going back to 1996 (78% include references)

– 21 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823

• In addition to traditional scientific and academic journals, SciVerse Scopus covers:– 1800 Open Access journals – 250 conference proceedings – 4.8 million conference papers– 425 Trade Publications – 325 Book Series – Medline (100% coverage)– 375 million quality web sites, including 24.8 million patents indexed by

Scirus– “Article-in-Press” from over 3,850 journals

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Geographical Coverage

• SciVerse Scopus covers journals from all geographical regions, including non-English titles (with English abstracts)

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Journal Research and Publishing Workflow

Experiment and Conduct Research

Peer Review

Build Fame

Assess Impact

Report Findings

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How can SciVerse Scopus assist the researcher in searching for literature?

• Facilitates major tasks researchers have• Searching citations & indexes• Browsing & searching sources• Viewing & storing articles• Search History• Documents Download

• Stay up-to-date • Alerts• RSS

• Getting an overview or understanding of a new subject field

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Searching Citations & Indexes

Ability to add more search fields to give

greater flexibility

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Reviewing Search Results

10 Navigator to refine results by:YearAuthor Name Subject AreaDocument TypeSource Title Keyword Affiliation CountrySource Type Language

Sort the results

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Reviewing Search Results

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Reviewing Documents

Document citation alert

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Scopus-CrossFire Beilstein Integration

• Enables researchers find relevant chemical compound or reaction information for a compound mentioned in a full-text article.

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Staying up-to-date with Search Alert

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Staying up-to-date with RSS Feed

Add feed to favourite RSS aggregator

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Documents Download

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Documents Download

Browse to locate the downloaded documents

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Storing Documents

Add selected documents to My List

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Storing Documents

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Citation Overview

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Browsing & Searching Sources

Two metrics broaden journal evaluation

Click on title to go to journal homepage

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Journal Homepage

Find out more about this journal: scope, editors, how to submit an article, etc.

Listing of all available volumes and issues

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Search History

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Managing Personalization Features

• Retrieve saved searches• Retrieve stored lists• Add/remove alerts • Change password • Change personal profile • Manage applications

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How can SciVerse Scopus assist the researcher in Production & Publication?

• Find co-authors, peer reviewers or experts

• Narrow down journals for you to select which one to submit for your research area

• Generate your References List quickly

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Find Prolific Authors

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Find Prolific Authors

Prolific authors

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Select journal to submit to for your research area

Journals which publish most papers in biomass gasification

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Metrics for Journal Evaluation (www.journalmetrics.com)

SCImago Journal Rank – SJR• Developed by SCImago – Felix de Moya, SCImago research group

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada

• Main feature: prestige metric – similar to Google PageRank

• Citations are weighted depending on the status of the source they come from

• Secondary feature : different citation behaviour addressedSource-Normalized Impact per Paper – SNIP

• Developed by Henk Moed, CWTS, University of Leiden

• Main feature: contextual citation impact • Part 1 – evens out differences in likelihood of citation (i.e. different behaviours)• Part 2 – evens out differences in database coverage in subject fields

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Metrics for Journal Evaluation

Normalize for differences in citation behaviour between subject fields

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Metrics for Journal Evaluation

Need Impact Factor SJR SNIP

Widely used & accepted

Simplicity of metrics Manipulation-proof

All journals have a metric

Fair to database coverage

Metrics are current Database transparency

Rank journals without Impact Factors

N/A

Fair to content – reviews!

Metric transparency Fair to all subject fields

Flexible ranking

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Create Reference List

Select format and styleCopy and Paste References

into your research paper

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How can SciVerse Scopus assist the researcher in tracking the citation?

• Scopus provides a unique Author Profile page for every author with more than 1 published paper on Scopus – increases awareness of your work

• See your citations grow with the Citation Tracker Tool

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Author Search

Click to show Author Details

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Author Details

No. of papers published

No. of times cited

No. of times Author appears on scientific websites

Journals he publishes in

Most recent affiliations

Different name formats

See his h-Index

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Author Evaluator

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Assess Impact / Research Performance Measurement

• h-Index – can evaluate authors, groups of researchers, institutions, group of articles etc.

• Charts to show number of papers published by an author, citations of an author over time

• Institution Evaluation

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Types of Research Measures

• Existing metrics focus on short term citation value- Impact factor = 2 years- Immediacy Index = 1 year- Cited Half Life = stops at 10 years

• New developments focus on alternative value measurements- h-Index- g-Index- Matthew Value

Measures Journals only

Measures JournalsAuthors

Research groups Subjects

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h-index in Scopus

• Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace activist.

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Why the h-Index

• Traditional methods of evaluating authors include : 1. No. of publications per year 2. Total citations from publications3. Impact factor

• These methods of evaluating authors were starting to get questioned by the authors themselves

• The h-Index combines quantity and quality, productivity and influence

• The h-Index also encourages consistency in citation numbers, favours continuous stream of papers with lasting and above-average impact

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Properties of the h-Index

• Easy to determine • Age of Author not taken into account

- Both junior and senior authors can have a high or low h-Index

• Ignores the highly & poorly cited papers – ‘one-hit wonders’• Dynamic, not a static number – can change as citations

increase, real-time in Scopus• Can be used to measure : Authors, Journals, Institutions,

Departments, Faculties, Selection of Papers etc..etc..etc• See Prof. Hirsch’s paper at :

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025

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Definition of h-Index

A scientist has index h if h of his papers have at least h citations each and the other papers have no more than h citations each.

“The h-index is the highest number of papers a scientist has that have at least that number of citations.”

Nature (2005)

Eg.: Prof. Lee has index 15 if 15 of his papers have at least 15 citations each and the other papers have no more than 15 citations

each.

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Citations of Papers from 1996 only

Sort papers from highest cited to lowest cited from 1996 onwards

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A scientist has index 14 if 14 of his 35 papers after 1995 have at least 14 citations each and the other 21 (35-14) papers have no

more than 14 citations each.

35 documents written after 1995

Article RankNumber

No. ofCitations

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Institution Evaluation

Click to show Affiliation Details

Click to show Affiliation Documents

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Affiliation Search Results

Top Journals UTP Authors Publish in

Top Authors who publish the most papers

Top Subject Areas/Faculties

Year – No. of papers published per year

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Affiliation Details

Research Information

Institutions the university has collaborated with the most

Alerts when new papers are written by the

institution

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SciVerse Scopus Alerts Mobile AppsSciVerse Scopus has launched mobile apps for iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android devices. This free application allows you to search SciVerse Scopus, share search results, save abstracts to your personal account, set up alerts for new references and citations in your areas of interest and annotate abstracts with your own notes. Initial setup of your personal account needs to be from an Institute IP address on the Scopus site (www.Scopus.com)

Step-by-Step Guide: 1. The App is free for download (Institutional Subscribers):-(Search: SciVerse Scopus Alerts App under App Store, BlackBerry App World & Android Market)2. After download the App, it will request for your User ID and password that the user has registered on www.Scopus.com3. Once the user entered the User ID and password, he/she will be able to use the App to conduct a search and viewing of the subscribed contents.

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Getting Indexed in Scopus

• 3 criteria for journal to be considered by Scopus Content selection Committee (librarians, information specialists, professors from around the world):– Abstracts and References must be in English (full-text can be in any language)– Journal must be peer-reviewed – Journal must be published regularly (at least once a year)

• Submit the journal to www.info.scopus.com/suggesttitle before August each year to be considered for the following year.

• After submission at the website above, send a copy of the journal to:Elsevier BV (Bibliography Databases)Attn: Bd Source Acquisition P.O Box 22271000 CE Amsterdam The Netherlands

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Getting Indexed in Scopus

• Free subscriptions of the journals are usually requested by Elsevier’s Source Acquisition if the journal get selected.

• For more information on getting indexed in Scopus please email, Ms Jo-an Chia, Account Manager Asia-Pacific, Elsevier . Email address: jo.chia@elsevier.com

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Thank You Questions & Answers

www.info.scopus.com