Hatim El Faiz Account Development Manager Middle East & Africa January 16, 2019 Hatim El Faiz Account Development Manager Middle East & Africa Tel: +31 204853232 Email: h.faiz@elsevier.com
A quick step-by-step guide January 16, 2019 Scopus for Authors A quick step-by-step guide
How can Scopus help you? How to use Scopus in your research How to get a personal citation overview How to find Authors How to evaluate your journal’s performance Compare journal performance to competitive journal How to find the top 5 highest-cited articles of a journal How to find the top 10 most-published authors in a journal How to search for the top 3 journals that cite your journal the most
1. How to use Scopus in your research
Homepage www.scopus.com Type in a search term and select from the dropdown menu
Results page Search in peer-reviewed, Web, Patents & Special Sources Edit/save search, set up search alert Refine Results Things to mention: Explain tabular view o Users usually sort on date but wanted more options Tabular view allows easy scanning and sorting of results Explain that clicking on Cited by allows you to sort results according to # of times article has been cited One click to Full Text Entitled Full Text Checked at Library
Sort by most highly cited View the citing articles Citation counts per article Sort by most highly cited View the citing articles
Links to 3 most recent cited articles Abstracts + references page Explore Journal’s other issues Full text- and library defined links Author Details plus link to all papers written by same author Clicking from the results page on the abstracts + references link takes you to this page. This is the CONTENT in Scopus. From here you can also use the LSI link to the full text. You can also see how many times the article has been cited in Scopus. Links to 3 most recent cited articles
Author Search & Author Identifier Type in an author name and initial or first name
Author Search & Author Identifier Author’s details
Author Search & Author Identifier Documents matched to this author Citation Overview for Tefko Saracevic Cited By count Authors that Tefko Saracevic published with
2. How to get a personal citation overview
Author Search homepage
Results page Select authors
Personal citation overview Exclude/include self citations Adjust year range and sorting order Citation counts per article and per year
3.How to find authors in a field
Enter search terms that are relevant for the article to be reviewed Find authors Enter search terms that are relevant for the article to be reviewed
Most published authors in field Find authors Most published authors in field
Find authors
4. How to evaluate your journal’s performance
Source Browse Enter journal name
Evaluate journal performance
Check how issues have performed Evaluate journal performance Check how issues have performed
Evaluate journal performance Citation counts
4.a. Compare journal performance to competitive journal
Compare journal performance - EU Enter journal name
Compare journal performance - EU
Compare journal performance - EU
Compare journal performance - EU 154 citations for 2006 issues
Compare journal performance - Urology Enter journal name
Compare journal performance - Urology
Compare journal performance - Urology
Compare journal performance - Urology Only 39 citations for 2006 issues in comparison to 154 citations that European Urology has already received
5. How to find the top 5 highest-cited articles of a journal
Top 5 highest-cited articles Select Source Title from the dropdown list
Top 5 highest-cited articles Select the journal title
Top 5 highest-cited articles
Top 5 highest-cited articles Click on Cited By to see the highest cited articles
6. How to find the top 10 most-published authors in a journal
Top 10 most-published authors Select Source Title from the dropdown list
Top 10 most-published authors Select the journal title
Top 10 most-published authors
Top 10 most-published authors
7. How to search for the top 3 journals that cite your journal the most
Top 3 journals that cite Eur. Urology Select the REFSRCTITLE from the scroll menu and use brackets for the journal name
Top 3 journals that cite Eur. Urology Top 3 journals that cite European Urology the most
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