1 Scopus as a Research Tool March 2012

2 Why Scopus?  A comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.  Over 19,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide (90% peer- reviewed journals).  46 million records  Broadest coverage  Life Sciences (>4,300 titles)  Physical Sciences (>7,200 titles)  Health Sciences (>6,800 titles)  Social Sciences and Humanities (>5,300 titles)  Sources:  Europe (52%)  North America (32%)  Asia, Australia & Pacific (11%)  South America (3%)  Middle East & Africa (2%)  As a Citation Analysis Tool to evaluate:  Authors, Institutions and Journals.

3 Access via Library website:

4 Search Interface Scopus Search Interface

5 environmental education finds over 28,000 records

6 Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases “environmental education” reduces results to under 3,400 records

7 Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision

8 “environmental education” as KEYWORDS reduces results to 2,000 records

9 Refine the Search To Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas) Add search field

10 Refine the Search To Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas) (KEY("environmental education") AND TITLE-ABS- KEY("primary school*" OR "primary education")) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1999  58 Records Only

11 At the Results Screens: you can also add Additional Search Terms, add Limit Fields To do search within the result list To limit the result by category, e.g. author, year … etc. Refine the Search

12 Sort the Results At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting Order (the default order is by “Date”)

13 Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article

14 Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article

15 Can I get the Full Text?

16 Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability View at Publisher redirects you to publisher web site but gives you free Full Text ONLY IF HKIEd has subscribed to this Journal

17 Record Details To export, print, or create a bibliography, click these links Setup RSS Feed to receive citation alert Find related documents Alert you via when this document is cited. You can schedule it to run daily, weekly or monthly.

18 Output Records

19 Output Records

20 Personalization Features

21 Personalization Features Must register own ID and log in to take advantage of personalization features

22 Personalization Features  With your personal SCOPUS Login, you can:  Save your search history.  Create your saved lists.  Set up keyword search alerts or citation alerts.

23 Personalization Features 1. Save your search 2. To view saved search in “My settings”

24 Edit Search Query

25 Set Search Alert ( ) A Search Alert is a saved search that you can schedule to run daily, weekly or monthly. You will receive an message with a link into Scopus to access the new results.

26 Set Search Alert (RSS) When you subscribe to a Scopus RSS feed, you will get the top 20 search results for your search delivered every day to your RSS reader. To use a Scopus RSS feed you must have an RSS reader.

27 Add to My List Add the selected documents to My List

28 Add to My List Click “My list” to browse the saved records To further manage your saved list

29 Author Identifier & Citation Analysis

30 Citation Analysis of an Author Citation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond

31 Citation Analysis of an Author

32 Citation Analysis of an Author To view the citation analysis of this author 97 publications; cited over 3,500 times by over 2,800 documents h-index (21) only counting articles published from 1995 onwards

33 Citation Analysis of an Author Authors are evaluated on the basis of their body of work, which has been cited by articles published from 1996 onwards in one of the 18,000 peer-reviewed journals in Scopus

34 The h-index can be calculated manually by viewing all the author’s documents in the Citation Tracker. Click on Sort documents and select Citations in descending. Then scroll down to where the rank of articles and the number of cited-by’s meet: that’s the h-index for that author including documents published from 1996 onwards.

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36 Definition of h-index An author has index h if h of his papers have at least h citations each and the other papers have no more than h citations each. e.g. An author with an h-index of 20 means that each of 20 of his or her publications have been cited for 20 or more times. For example The h-index for Bond, Michael Harris (Considers Scopus articles published after 1996) = 21 (21 out of 82 documents have each been cited at least 21 times)

37 Properties of the h-index  Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace activist.  Easy to determine.  Age of Author not taken into account.  Both junior and senior authors can have a high or low h-index.  Ignores the highly & poorly cited papers – ‘one-hit wonders’.  Dynamic, not a static number – can change as citations increase, real-time in Scopus.  Can be used to measure : Authors, Journals, Institutions, Departments, Faculties, Selection of Papers … etc.  Details of h-index at:  

38 Analyze Journal Using Journal Analyzer

39 Journal Analyzer

40 Journal Analyzer Double click to select a journal title. A graph will appear on the other side showing citations, documents, etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could be selected for comparison at a time. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. SJR chart weighted citations per document SNIP = Source normalized impact per paper: corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fields Citations chart shows the total number of citations received by a journal in the year, considering all documents. Documents chart shows the total number of documents published in the journal in the year.

41 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

42 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Institution to be analyzed

43 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Institution to be analyzed

44 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Click to browse all documents

45 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Select all records

46 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

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