The Latest in Information Technology for Research Universities

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The Latest in Information Technology for Research
Universities

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Scopus Development Partners

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The scientist

• Over last 2 years, Elsevier conducted focus
  groups and onsite observation with scientists
• To document the way in which
• scientists
• Search for
• Find and
• Evaluate scientific literature
• and information
• Built by Scientist for Scientist

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SCOPUS WORLDs Largest scientific
abstract/citation databases

• Over 15,000 titles from over 4,000 publishers
• 12,000 Academic journal
• 535 Open Access journals
• 750 Conference proceedings
• 600 Trade publications
• 125 Book Series
• Updated daily
• 33 million records
• 16 million abstract records include
  references back to 1996
• 17 million records back to 1841, 70 have
  an abstract
• 245 Million cited references added to all
  records from 1996 onwards
• Simultaneous web search of 386 million
  scientific web pages
• (including patent information 22 million
  records)

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Scopus and the web

• Fully integrated Web search via Scirus.com
• A unique science specific algorithm
• Specific coverage of 400 million documents
  scientific sites/pages including
• author websites
• university, government and corporate websites
• institutional repositories
• Patents
• theses dissertations
• Tools to refine search and manage results
• Transparent sources
• User tests show Scirus performs better

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The Broadest Source of STMand Social Sciences
information
gt 4,000 publishers
Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Health Sciences (100 Medline)
Physical Sciences
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Geographical spread of content

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

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Content Selection Criteria

• Content Selection Committee (consisting of 20
  scientists and 10 subject librarians)
• Scopus aims to be the most comprehensive single
  point of access for STM and social science
  information
• Additions to content are defined by user demand
  and prioritized by Content Selection Committee of
  scientists and subject librarians
• Important criteria
• At least abstract in English
• Regular publication
• Peer review/quality

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Contact details

• Suggest a title
• www.info.scopus.com/suggesttitle
• Content Selection (CSAB)
• www.info.scopus.com/detail/involved
• Access
• nlinfo_at_scopus.com

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Functionality Highlights

• Citation Tracker For journals, authors, topics
• Author Identifier and Author Details Page
• Affiliation Identifier and Affiliation Details
  Page NEW!!
• Journal Analyzer For journal performance
• NEW!!

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Scopus Homepage
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Journal Analysis

• Citation Tracker citation analysis at article
  level
• Journal Analyzer total citations, articles
  published for multiple journals

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Browsing Journals
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Journal Homepage
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Journal Citation Analysis at article level
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Journal Analyzer
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Journal Analyzer

• Can select up to 10 journals in a specific field
  1996 - present. The results are uploaded into
  graphs, making it easy to see how journals are
  performing relative to each other.
• The data in the Scopus Journal Analyzer is
  updated every two months. For the first time
  ever, you can see where your journals stand right
  now, not where they were last year.

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Analyzing performance of authors, topics,
institutes

• How to Identify top and active researchers,
  subjects, where publishing
• How to identify peer institutes performance .
• Country performance comparison for competative
  intelligence

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Subject Searching
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More Tab
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Web Tab
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Patents Tab
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Link to Patents
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Functionality Overview
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Download up to 50 documents
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Functionality Overview
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Output Options customize fields
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Quick Bibliography
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Quick Bibliography Created
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Functionality Overview
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Creating Virtual List
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Save List
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My Profile
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Author Identifier
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Editing, Correcting Authors Feedback to Scopus
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Evaluate citation tracker h-index with one click
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Unmatched Authors
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Grouping Unmatched results
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Its not (only) about quantity The H-index
To compare the quality of your authors amongst
each others, within your institute or with any
other author in the world.
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Goals of most institutes and research agencies
are to

• Show development in science and technology
  compared to other countries and institutes
• Develop skills of those involved in scientific
  research
• See the effect of their investment on the ST
  development in the country

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WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

• Times Higher Education Supplement well-known,
• Reputable publication that reports specifically
  on higher
• Education issues
• THeS has published World University Rankings
• annually since 2004.
• The 2006/2007 top 200 global university ranking
  did not
• include any Algerian institutes

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Affiliation Identifier
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Article Output for Shahid Baheshti
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Who is citing the University
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UK Rankings changed..
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Contact details

• Suggest a title
• www.info.scopus.com/suggesttitle
• Content Selection (CSAB)
• www.info.scopus.com/detail/involved
• Access
• nlinfo_at_scopus.com

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As faculty or as an administrator, Scopus
provides competitive intelligence evaluating
institutions

• Create overviews based on affiliation
• Info useful for
• Obtaining / allocating funding
• Benchmarking
• Measuring ROI
• Promotion / Tenure decisions

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