SCOPUS INTRODUCTION Alvaro Ybarra Muguruza Account Manager Spain

SCOPUS - INTRODUCTION Alvaro Ybarra Muguruza Account Manager Spain a. ybarra@elsevier. com

The broad source for research answers 21, 000 active titles A rich and extended coverage including 20, 000 Peer reviewed journals 393 Trade journals 21. 2 M pre-1996 records 29. 5 M post-1995 records >50 M records § 64 k pre-1996 conf events 10. 5 k post-1995 conf events 5. 7 M total conference records (10%) § § § 371 Book series 240 Conf. series Content from > 5, 000 publishers “Articles in Press” from > 3, 750 titles Abstracts going back to 1823 40 languages covered 380 M integrated scientific websites 24 M Patents 844 k book items Total average processing time: 5 days

Breadth of coverage across subject areas Physical Sciences 6, 600 Health Sciences 6, 300 • Chemistry • Nursing • Physics • Dentistry • Engineering • etc. , • (100% Medline) Social Sciences 6, 350 Life Sciences 4, 050 • Psychology • Neuroscience • Economics • Pharmacology • Business • Biology • A&H • etc. , More than 20, 000 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

Geographical distribution of titles 0 5, 000 Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape

How is content selected?

More expansive coverage does not mean lower standards Titles are selected by the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) Focus on quality through selection by independent CSAB, because: • Provide accurate and relevant search results for users • No dilution of search results by irrelevant or low quality content • Support that Scopus is recognized as authoritative • Support confidence that Scopus is “reflecting the truth” • Assurance that titles selected by Scopus meet the highest ethical standards

Scopus selection criteria Journal policy Minimum criteria • • • Peer-review English abstracts Quality of content Regular publication References in Roman script Publication ethics statement Journal standing Regularity Online availability • • • • Convincing editorial concept/policy Level of peer-review Diversity in geographic distribution of editors Diversity in geographic distribution of authors Academic contribution to the field Clarity of abstracts Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope Readability of articles Citedness of journal articles in Scopus Editor standing No delay in publication schedule Content available online English-language journal home page Quality of home page

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Claiming who you are

The Challenge: Scholarly Name Ambiguity Many researchers that too closely resemble one another. Dr. Lee Researchers publish under name variations. Dr. Lee Dr. James Lee

The Solution: The ORCID Registry Dr. Lee Dr. James Lee Open Research and Contributor ID (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 Lee 46533489

The (Future) Benefits of ORCID By issuing unique identifiers to all researchers, ORCID aims to facilitate discovery and evaluation for researchers, institutions, scholarly societies and publishers. Joins faculty or student body Joins scholarly society 46533489 Applies for grant Submits manuscript

Get your own ORCID Link to add to ORCID, opens the Scopus to ORCID feedback wizard

Who is looking at you?

Scopus customers world wide (2012 Analysis, by customer count) US: 37% Low Penetration Mid-level Penetration High Penetration China: 10%

Leading research institutes use Scopus Rank Name of Institute 1 University of Cambridge Country UK 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 US US UK UK US US US Canada Switzerland Australia Harvard University Yale University College London Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Oxford Imperial College London University of Chicago California Institute of Technology Princeton University Columbia University of Pennsylvania Stanford University Duke University of Michigan Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Mc. Gill University ETH Zurich Australian National University Scopus Non-Scopus

Top decision making bodies around the world use Scopus data More than 95 of the world’s top Laboratories, Institutes and Ranking Bodies use Scopus for evaluation

More accuracy, More transparency, More options, More metrics! www. journalmetrics. com

API integration using Scopus data Scopus Requests dynamic Scopus Cited-by number to display on website Use API to extract basic bibliographic data 1. Title 2. Author 3. Basic bibliographic metadata http: //www. info. sciverse. com/scopus-services/integration

And finally… Books Export limit increased to 20, 000 Funding data

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