How to apply the principles of peer-review for journal evaluation Ove Kähler Senior Product Manager Scopus October 2009

“I want to provide my users with an all-science database, which indexes all relevant content.” Question: Who determines which journals are relevant? User-centered

Mr. Ger Spikman Agricultural & Biological Sciences; Immunology & Microbiology Professor Jörg-Rüdiger Sack Computer Science Professor Karen Holland Nursing; Health Professions Dr. Richard Whatmore Arts & Humanities Professor James D. Wright Social Sciences Dr. Peter Miller Psychology, Dentistry & Veterinary Sciences Professor & Chairman Peter Stambrook Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience Professor Peter Brimblecombe Earth & Planetary Science, Environmental Science Dr. David Rew Medicine Dr. Evan Bieske Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Energy, Material Sciences Professor Gerard Pfann Economics/Business Professor Manolis Papadrakakis Engineering July 2009: 1 st Board Meeting of Subject Chairs, Noordwijk (Netherlands) “I want to provide my users with an all-science database, which indexes all relevant content.”

Suggestor Admin Elsevier CSAB members: make selection based on region and/or subj. area(s) Subject Chairs (SC’s): get titles assigned based on their subject area(s) Involvement of additional reviewers (e.g. TCI) Now As of Q Suggest s a title index.cfm Incl. involvement of editors/ publishers Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP)

Transparent & consistent Librarian: “I want to provide my users with an all-science database, which indexes all relevant content.” Question: Which criteria should drive the selection of journals? Peer-review English abstracts Regular publication

Librarian: “I want to provide my users with an all-science database, which indexes all relevant content.”