1 Scopus as an Editor’s Workflow Tool Andy Teo Account Manager, Elsevier Science & Technology 17 Feb

2 2 Focused web information Academic library sources 18,000 titles 5,000 publishers STM & Social sciences World’s Largest Abstract & Citation Database 15% Elsevier sources 85% other publishers 359 million scholarly Web items, E-prints, theses, Dissertations, patents Fastest route to FullText Scopus at a glance

3 3 Scopus: the Broadest of STM and Social Sciences Information 5,3005,3004,3004,3007,2007,2006,8006,800 Health (100% Medline) Chemistry Physics Engineering Biological Agricultural Environmental Social Sciences Psychology Economics > 5,000 publishers

4 4 Geographical Coverage Scopus covers journals from all geographical regions, including non-English titles (with English abstracts)

5 5 WoS covers 57% of Scopus

6 6 How can Scopus assist the editor? Find authors and potential board members Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest Review performance of journals

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20 How can Scopus assist the editor? Find authors and potential board members Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest Review performance of journals

21 Metrics for Journal Evaluation ( SCImago Journal Rank – SJR Developed by SCImago – Felix de Moya, SCImago research groupSCImago Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada Main feature: prestige metric – similar to Google PageRank Citations are weighted depending on the status of the source they come from Secondary feature : different citation behaviour addressed Source-Normalized Impact per Paper – SNIP Developed by Henk Moed, CWTS, University of Leiden Main feature: contextual citation impact Part 1 – evens out differences in likelihood of citation (i.e. different behaviours) Part 2 – evens out differences in database coverage in subject fields

22 Compare up to 10 journals going back to 1996

23 Compare up to 10 journals going back to 1996

24 Compare up to 10 journals going back to 1996

25 Compare up to 10 journals going back to 1996

26 Compare up to 10 journals going back to 1996

27 How can Scopus assist the editor? In summary, we covered: Find authors and potential board members Find reviewers and potential conflict of interest Review performance of journals But… WHY use SciVerse Scopus?

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32 Philippines journals indexed in Scopus as at Oct 2010

33 Thank You Questions & Answers