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USING SCOPUS AS A RESEARCH TOOL

Solution Consultant (e-platform and content)
South East Asia
Elise Shen (e.shen@elsevier.com)

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Agenda

Scopus content coverage

Thailand Research Performances

How can Scopus assist you with your

research?

What content expansion programs are

ongoing?

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What content does Scopus include?

53.3M records from 21,912 serial titles and 30,000 books
21.3M pre 1996 records | 32.0M post 1995 records

Content from > 5,000 publishers

Articles in Press from > 3,750 titles
Titles from 105 different countries in all
geographical regions
40 local languages covered
More than 2,800 Gold Open Access journals
indexed

Scopus is ideal compared to other products because it has the broadest

coverage of global, curated, relevant research, with smart, simple tools to
help track, analyze and visualize research.

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What content does Scopus include?

Physical
Sciences
6,600
Health
Sciences
6,300
Social
Sciences
6,350
Life
Sciences
4,050

JOURNALS

CONFERENCES

BOOKS

PATENTS

20,874 peer-reviewed journals

367 trade journals

17k events
5.5M records
(10%)

421 book series

- 28K Volumes
- 925K items

24M patents
from 5 major
patent offices

Conf. expansion:
1,000 conferences
6,000 conf. events
400k conf. papers
5M citations

29,917 books
- 311K items

- Full metadata, abstracts and

cited references (pre-1996)
- >2,800 fully Open Access titles
- Going back to 1823
- Funding data from
acknowledgements

Mainly Engineering
and Physical
Sciences

Books expansion:
75K books by 2015
- Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H

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Agenda

Scopus content coverage

Thailand Research Performances

How can Scopus assist you with your

research?

What content expansion programs are

ongoing?

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Articles Published in Thailand

Articles published

Cited and Un-cited Documents

International Collaboration

Citations and Self-Citations

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Research Performance Thailand

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Research Performance Mahidol University

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Agenda

Scopus content coverage

Thailand Research Performances

How can Scopus assist you with your research?

What content expansion programs are ongoing?

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Scopus is designed to accelerate the literature research process

1) Whats the
best journal for
my research?

5) Who else is
working on this
in my country
or elsewhere in
the world?

20,500
journal
s

5,000
publishers

360
book
series

2) Related
interdisciplinar
y, global,
research?

Global
covera
ge
All
discipline
s

4) Whats the
trend - is this a
growing or
declining field?

3) Who is citing
my work?

69% agree that Scopus saves them time in the research process

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How can Scopus assist you with your research?

Facilitates major tasks researchers have

Searching citations & indexes

Browsing & searching sources
Viewing & storing articles
Search History
Documents Download

Stay up-to-date
Alerts
RSS

Searching Citations & Indexes

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Document Search

Affiliation Search

Compare Journals

Author Search

Browse Sources

Add More Search Fields

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Reviewing Search Results

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Search Results
Refine Results
(Limit or Exclude)
Make selection to activate
the button

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Sorting Options
Search Alert
(Save & RSS Feed)

Batch Download of PDFs

Make selection to activate
the button

Export Citations Information

Make selection to activate
the button

Display Article Pages

(Abstracts & References)

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Reviewing Documents
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Author Information

Citation Information & Alert

Related Articles

Mendeley Readership Statistics

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Documents Download

Batch Download and Automatic Naming

Java Required

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Citation Overviews

View Documents Citation

Overview & Documents h Index

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1 Documents h Index

2 Overview Options (Sorting & Exclude Author Self Citation)

3 Documents Citation Overview

Browsing & Searching

Browsing & Searching Sources
Sources

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Browse Sources
(by Subject or Alphabetical)

Search Sources

SJR, IPP & SNIP

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Journal Homepage
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Journal Information

Follow this source

Journal Metrics (SJR & SNIP)

Documents List by Publication

Years

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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 epidemic published
by authors from Thailand.

Compare Journals
Performance

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Compare Journals and View SJR, IPP and SNIP Data

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Author Search

Display Authors Details

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Author Details

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Visualize Authors Research &

Performance

Export all authors publication

(Mendeley & other Reference
Manager)

Authors Citation Alert

Authors h Index

Authors Document Alert

Add to ORCID

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The Challenge: Scholarly Name Ambiguity

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Summary

Using Scopus as a Researcher you can:

Author profiling Total number of publications and
citations
Understand a research trends
Which journal to publish my paper
Who can I collaborate with
Fast Route to full-text articles

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Agenda

Scopus content coverage

Thailand Research Performances

How can Scopus assist you with your research?

What content expansion programs are ongoing?

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Scopus article growth over years

3,500,000
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0

2004

2005

2006

Physical Sciences
Source: Scopus data 13 May 2014

2007

2008

Health Sciences

2009

2010

Life Sciences

2011

2012

Social Sciences

2013

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Ratio of journals per Publisher in Scopus

Elsevier; 10%
Springer; 7%
SAGE; 2%
Wiley-Blackwell;
5%1%
Wolters
Kluwer Health;
IEEE;
1%
Taylor
& Francis;
6%
OUP; 1%
Inderscience; 1%
Bentham; 1%

Other; 60%

Cambridge University Press; 1%

Emerald; 1%
Hindawi; 1%
Macmillan; 1%

Source: Scopus title list (May 2014)

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Conference Expansion Program

Coverage
years

Backfill from 2005 2012 (8 years)

Number of
conferences

Around 1,000 new conference titles,

6,000 conference events, 400K
conference papers and 5M references

Which
conferences

Serial and one-off conferences from

authoritative, respected lists. Focus
on engineering and engineeringrelated subject fields

A special project, designed to

ensure Scopus customers
have access to highly
regarded conferences from
specific respected /
authoritative lists of
conferences held worldwide.

No permission; 194

Waiting for permission;

Titles384
processed; 832
In process; 143

Project
started in
2011

Expected
project end
date: June
2014

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Books expansion program

(plus ~28K book Volumes from
series)

70,000
60,000

Coverage
years

Back to 2005 (2003 for A&H)

50,000
40,000

Number
of books

75,000 over three years; 10,000

each year thereafter

30,000
20,000
10,000

Book
types

Monographs, edited volumes,

major reference works,
graduate level text books

Book title

Chapter title
All chapter
titles and links
Author data

Abstract

Citation count

Metadata
Cited references

Books target
in Scopus

Actual
books in
Scopus

Already in Scopus:
Elsevier, Springer, Wiley,
Brill, De Gruyter, Woodhead,
Karger, Oxford University
Press, Edward Elgar, Maney,
Intellect, IOS Press, Pan
Stanford, University of
California Press, Princeton
University Press, Edinburgh
University Press, Delft
University Press, Duke
University Press, McGill
Queens University Press,
Project Muse (60+ UPs),

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Pre-1996 cited references expansion program

What?

Why?

Coverag
e years

Pre-1996, going back to

1970

Number
of
articles

We estimate 8M+ articles

will be (re-) processed to
include cited references

Which
Archives

Archives from all major

publishers that have digital
archives available
All subject areas included

When?
Development of
required systems
and processes
has already
started

The first
content with
pre-1996 cited
references will
be visible in Q4
2014

- Improve the completeness

and coverage of back files in
Scopus
- Enhance the relevancy and
visibility of archival content in
Scopus
- Measure the impact of pre1996 for both individual
assessment and (historical) trend
analysis.
- Increase the accuracy of
Scopus Author Profiles for older
researchers and decision makers.

Completed by
2016 when >8M
articles from all
major publishers
have been loaded

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Summary
Scopus has broad coverage providing the most accurate
view of the global research landscape.
Scopus has a transparent content selection process
executed by the independent Content Selection & Advisory
Board.
Scopus is flexible and we work with you and the research
community to ensure that most relevant sources are
covered.
Scopus is working on content expansion programs to
ensure that coverage, discoverability, profiles and impact
measurement for research in all subject fields is accounted
for in Scopus.

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Thank you & Questions

Look out for more developments from Scopus @

Thank you

http://blog.scopus.com/
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