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 Improving Research Performance
using Elsevier’s

✓ Understanding Researcher Needs

✓ Research metrics: Journal-Article-Author
✓ Aligning with Editor’s requirements
✓ Using Scopus to plan research effectively
✓ Scouting and analyzing Journals using Scopus

SPEAKER-
Aishwarya Nayal
Customer Consultant
Elsevier-South Asia
Elsevier at a Glance- Academic & Government

Source: www.elsevier.com
Understanding the research workflow

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Elsevier products are integral to the research workflow

Researcher-centricity as the key concept behind our activities and

products – looking at the whole picture of the researcher’s workflow!

Apply Read & Share, Manage

Current Search & Review &
awareness
for evaluate collect & Write Submit my career
discover publish
grants FTA’s store & network

Researcher-centricity is the key concept behind our activities and products – looking at the
whole picture of the researcher’s workflow!
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Understanding Researcher Needs
Researchers today are more demanding than ever before
More rewarding
peer review
Secure funding

Organise my
writing Take editorial
decisions
Collaboration
Showcase my
work Manage
research data

Evaluate my
impact Evaluate and
read articles

Publish most
Stay up to
effectively
date
 Information Discovery

PEER REVIEW

APPLICATION

EXPERIENCE
LOGIC

With an ocean of data surrounding you.. It takes logic, peer review, application and experience to achieve wisdom

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Scientific Publishing nowadays

Research output growth 1996-2020

~7,000 scientific journal publishers

~60,000 peer-reviewed scholarly

journals

~3 Million published articles per

year
(increases @ ~3% per year)

~4 Million unique authors in a year

(increases @ ~3% per year)

Source: https://scival.com
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 What is Scopus?
The largest abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature.
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and
citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.

Identify and analyze which

85 million+ journals to read/submit to
Items
Track and assess a researcher’s
impact

27,100+ Decide what, where and with

1.7 billion cited references
Serial titles whom to collaborate
dating back to 1970

Track impact of research and

252,000+ monitor global research trends
Books
7,000+ Find the current research; what has been
Publishers published in a research area
94,000+ 17 million+
Affiliation profiles Author profiles
Determine how to differentiate
research topics, find ideas

Quickly find relevant and trusted research, identify experts, and access reliable data,
metrics and analytical tools to support confident decisions around research strategy –
all from one database and one subscription.
Scopus Coverage Summary (Jan 2022)
Global representation means global discovery across all subjects and content types
85.2M records from 27.1K serials, 101K+ conferences and 249K books
from more than 7,000 publishers in 105 countries
• Updated daily—approximately 11,000 articles per day indexed
• 18.26M open access documents
• “Articles in Press” from >8,740 titles
• 1.10M preprints from multiple preprint servers
• 5,408 active Gold Open Access journals indexed
Number of journals by
subject area** Journals Conferences Books Patents
Physical sciences 25,837** active peer-reviewed 140K conference 63.3K individual book 47.4M patents
9,056 journals events series volumes
5 major patent offices:
247 trade journals 10.97M conference 252K stand-alone
Health sciences papers books • WIPO
7,596
5,408 Gold OA Journals
• EPO
(DOAJ/ROAD) 2.35M total book
• USPTO
items
17.0M fully-indexed funding • JPO
Social sciences acknowledgements • UK IPO
11,526
1.10M preprints Focus on Social
Mainly Engineering and Sciences and A&H
• Full metadata, abstracts and cited Computer Sciences
Life sciences
references (refs post-1970 only)
5,164
• Citations back to 1970

*Journals may be classified in multiple subject areas: this count includes current actively indexed titles only
**Total number of Scopus journals in database including inactive titles is 42,474
Global Representation means global discovery
Across all subjects and content types
Expert Curated content selection by the independent Content
Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)

• The CSAB is an independent board of subject experts from all over the world.
• Comprised of 17 Subject Chairs.
• Board members are chosen for their expertise in specific subject areas; many
have (journal) Editor experience.
 Scopus:
Supporting Researchers
Combining content with Technology to turn information into
“Actionable Knowledge”
Scopus can help researchers
Find out what already exists in the global world of research output S
Get topic specific funding insights: Target funding agencies C
Decide what, where and with whom to partner or collaborate with O
Track impact of research; monitor global research trends P
Help researchers track their research performance through citation counts and the h-index U
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Identify and analyze which journals to read or where to submit an article

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Research Metrics Used in Scopus
Journal – Author - Article

“Not everything that counts, can be counted,

AND
Not everything that can be counted, counts”
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Journal Metrics: Impact Factor

▪ Impact Factor (IF): average number of times articles from a journal
published in the past two years/or 5 years have been cited in the
current year
All citations in 2020
to articles published in 2018 and 2019
Impact Factor of a

Journal in 2020
= Further normalized

All articles published in 2018 and 2019*

1. All Journals DO NOT have Impact Factor including some very good upcoming journals.
2. *Conference Proceedings are not considered for Impact Factor
3. Impact factor is sometimes biased towards fast moving subjects and is strongly driven by number of citations. Eg.
Medicine subject area receives higher citations, so many journals have higher impact factor.. whereas
Mathematics subject area has lower citations, so lower number of journal with high impact factor.
 Alternate Metrics: CiteScore- 3 C’s and Free
CiteScore is based on the principles of 3 C’s and
the fact that it is freely available, empowering
users to make well-informed decisions regarding
portfolio management and where to publish.

Comprehensive Clear Current

Based on Scopus, the
world’s broadest abstract CiteScore metrics are CiteScore Tracker is
and citation database transparent and easy to updated monthly
calculate for yourself
CiteScore metrics are New titles will have
available for all serial The underlying database CiteScore metrics the year
titles, not just journals is available for you to after they are published
interrogate
CiteScore metrics could
be calculated for
portfolios

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 Alternate metrics- SNIP & SJR
Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
• Developed by CWTS, University of Leiden Netherlands.
• Measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total
number of citations in a subject field.
• The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations
are less likely, and vice versa.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

• Developed by SCImago, Spain.
• SCImago measures the scientific influence of scholarly journals.
A prestige metric that can be applied to journals, book series and conference
proceedings.
• It takes into account: both the number of citations received by a journal and the
importance/prestige of where the journal citations come from. With SJR, the
subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of
a citation.

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Two Golden Rules for using research metrics-
to give a balanced, multi-dimensional view

Always use both qualitative and

Always use more than one research
quantitative input into your
metric as the quantitative input
decisions
This is about benefitting from the strengths of
A research metric’s strengths can complement
both approaches, not about replacing one with
the weaknesses of others
the other

Combining both approaches will get you closer There are many different ways of being
to the whole story excellent

Valuable intelligence is available from the

Using multiple metrics drives desirable
points where these approaches differ in their
changes in behaviour
message
Using metrics on a case by case basis
Your selection should partly be based on your preferences, and partly on the characteristics the metric needs to help
you answer your question. The table will help you to make your selection.
End in Mind CiteScore CiteScore Percentile SNIP SJR
Relative position within
Relative citations per
Measures Citations per document subject field based on Prestige of citing sources
document
CiteScore

Open to validation in
Yes Yes No No
Scopus?
Size-normalized? Yes Yes Yes Yes

Subject field-normalized? No Yes Yes Yes

Communicate magnitude Yes No No No

Annually, and CiteScore Annually, and CiteScore

Update frequency Tracker metrics monthly Tracker metrics monthly Annually Annually

“Always begin with the end in mind”- Stephen Covey, The 7 habits of highly effective people 23
Author level metrics in Scopus

GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
❑ Covers not only journals but academic websites, grey
literature, pre-prints, theses etc
❑ Also includes books from the Google Books project
❑ Results often contain duplicates of the same article
(usually as pre-prints and post-prints) due to the wide
range of sources

✓ The H-Index is a numerical indicator of how productive and influential a researcher is 24

✓ It was invented by Jorge Hirsch in 2005, a physicist at the University of California.
Author level metrics in Scopus

✓ Open Researcher and Contributor ID

✓ Nonproprietary alphanumeric code
✓ Uniquely identifies scientific and
academic authors /contributors.
✓ Integrated with Scopus
 Article-level metrics in Scopus: Compare Like with Like
❑ The Field-Weighted Citation Impact
❑ (FWCI) score comes from the Scopus
database and shows how the article's
citation count compares to similar articles
in the same field and timeframe.
PlumX Metrics are comprehensive, item-level metrics
that provide insights into the ways people interact
with individual pieces of research output
PlumX in Scopus:

❑ A score of 1.00 means the article is cited

as it would be expected, greater than
1.00 the article is doing better than USAGE CAPTURES
expected, and less than 1.00 the article is (clicks, views, (bookmarks,
downloads, library favorites,
underperforming. holdings, video reference
plays) manager saves)

❑ Eg. FWCI of 6 indicates that the article

received almost 6 times the number of
citations as compared to the average MENTIONS SOCIAL CITATIONS
(blog posts, news
article in this field received. mentions,
MEDIA (citation indexes,
(tweets, likes, patent citations,
comments, reviews, clinical citations,
Wikipedia mentions) shares)
policy citations)
 How to use Scopus?

✓ Your institute must have access to Scopus

✓ If yes, then while working from home you institute must have arranged for remote access

✓ Log on to : www.scopus.com or use the link provided on your institute’s library/ E-resources portal

✓ Let’s go live on the Scopus platform

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