0. Scopus today and what is to come in 2016
Dr. Wim Meester
Head of Product Management, Scopus
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1. How is the Russian Federation doing in the international research community

2. With Project 5-100 Russia has ambitious goals to improve its competitive position
Five of the best Russian universities to enter the top 100 of the leading global university rankings by 2020

3. Scholarly output (Article, Review, Conference Paper)
Scholarly output in Russia is increasing over the years to more than 57 thousand documents per year. However, Russia is lagging behind the comparator countries.
Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2016)

4. International collaboration
Although the level of international collaboration for Russia is one of the highest of the comparator countries, the ratio is slightly decreasing over the years.
Source: SciVal data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2016)

5. Russian Federation FWCI = 1.10
International collaboration leads to increase of Field Weighted Citation Impact (2013 – 2015)
Collaboration FWCI
Country
FWCI
Co-authored publications
2.58
China
0.85
3,505
3.38
Brazil
0.80
1,703
3.30
India
0.76
1,596
2.16
USA
1.44
10,906
36.27
Ghana
1.14 16
Russian Federation
FWCI = 1.10
Citation impact compared to the world average.
Source: SciVal (May 2016)

6. Scopus is the gold standard, used by more than 3,500 organizations and 150 funding and assessment bodies
UK REF
Kiel University
Russian Foundation of Basic Research
UK BIS
Queen’s University Belfast
Ural Federal University
Michigan Corporate Relations Network
STINT
MD Anderson
Danish BFI
Estonia Research Council
NCN Poland
Germany IFQ
European Commission & ERC
Keio University
FCT Portugal
NSF
ISTIC
Peking
University
Italy ANVUR
Gazi University
ReachNC
TCI -
Thailand
IISER
NRF -Korea
Nanyang Technological University
Nigerian Government
CAPES Brazil
ERA 2014
Rankings:

7. Why Scopus content coverage gives you a comprehensive view on global research
Regarded as the Gold standard.
Research organizations, funding bodies and ranking organizations that rely on Scopus data.

8. 61M records from 22K serials, 93K conferences and 123K books
Scopus includes content from more than 5,000 publishers and 105 different countries
61M records from 22K serials, 93K conferences and 123K books
Updated daily
“Articles in Press” from > 3,750 titles
40 different languages covered
3,715 active Gold Open Access journals indexed
JOURNALS
CONFERENCES
BOOKS
Physical
Sciences
7,443
21,568 peer-reviewed journals
361 trade journals
Full metadata, abstracts and cited references (ref’s post-1995 only)
93K conference events
7.5M conference papers
Mainly Engineering and Computer Sciences
531 book series
30K Volumes / 1.2M items
123,792 stand-alone books
974K items
Focus on Social Sciences and A&H
Health
Sciences
6,795
Transparent coverage
Consistent search results
All content in one database
Social
Sciences
8,086
Life
Sciences
4,492
Source: November 2015 title list at

9. Unbiased, comprehensive journal coverage with titles from many reputable scholarly publishers
Publisher neutral
Source: November 2015 title list at

10. Comparison with nearest peer
Scopus
22,460
~22K titles
>5,000 publishers
Updated daily
~12K titles (Core Collection)
3,300 publishers
Updated weekly
Web of Science
12,708
Scopus
7,443 (+73%)
Scopus
6,795 (+96%)
Scopus
4,492 (+50%)
Scopus
8,086 (+99%)
WoS
4,291
WoS
3,472
WoS
3,002
WoS
4,060
Physical Sciences
Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Source: Web of Science Real Facts, Web of Science title list and Scopus’ own data (May 2016)

11. How comprehensive is Scopus coverage?
Example Russian Science Citation Index
All RSCI titles
RSCI titles indexed in Scopus (active + inactive)
active Scopus titles
inactive Scopus titles
Nr. of titles
633
278
243 35
% of RSCI titles
100%
44%
38% 6%

12. Scopus continues to invest in expansion and enrichment of content

13. Adding cited references to pre-1996 items in Scopus
Coverage years
Pre-1996, going back to 1970
Number of articles
Around 6M+ articles will be re-processed to include cited references. In addition around 4M pre-1996 articles will be backfilled
Scope
Archives from major publishers with available digital archives
Already 6M pre-1996 documents loaded in Scopus leading to additional 107M cited references
In process of adding cited references to pre-1996 articles going back to 1970.
Started in Just over half-way already 6 million pre-1996 documents and 105 million cited references.
The project is expected to be complete by the end of this year.

14. h-index of researchers who started publishing before 1996 is increasing
Gerard ‘t Hooft (Nobel prize in Physics, 1999)
Increase of citation information will also have a positive effect on the h-index of researchers who published <1996 in
h-index increased with 30 points to 43.
This is a more accurate representation of the h-index this researcher has
Documents published between:
Number of publications: 40
Number of citations: 782
h-index: 13
Documents published between:
Number of publications: 110
Number of citations: 23,134
h-index: 43

15. How to use research metrics appropriately and why Scopus offers a basket of metrics
Broad content coverage + measure performance in different dimensions

16. Evolution of research metrics and analytical tools
2016 – CiteScore and Journal metrics module 2015 – Article-level metrics module 2014 – SciVal launches, IPP Journal Metric 2013 – Increased Export limits 2012 – Modified SNIP & SJR, Altmetric, Analyze results 2011 – Export refine 2010 – SNIP & SJR Journal Metrics 2009 – Author Evaluator 2008 – Journal Analyzer 2007 – h-index graph 2006 – Citation Overview (Citation Tracker) 2004 – Scopus launches

17. Two Golden Rules for appropriate use of research metrics
Always use both qualitative and quantitative input into your decisions
Always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input

18. Field-Weighted Citation Impact Citations per Publication
Use more than one metric: our basket of metrics must ensure weaknesses can be compensated for
Field-Weighted Citation Impact
= 2.53
Citations per Publication
= 27.8 +
Compensates for differences field, type and age
Meaningful – 253% of expected
People often don’t like small numbers
Complicated; difficult to validate
How many citations does it represent?

19. Use more than one metric: our basket of metrics must ensure weaknesses can be compensated for
Field-Weighted Citation Impact
= 2.53
Citations per Publication
= 27.8 +
Compensates for differences field, type and age
Meaningful – 253% of expected
How does this apply to our journal metrics?
People often don’t like small numbers
Complicated; difficult to validate
How many citations does it represent?

20. Use more than one metric: Journal Metrics
Field-Weighted Citation Impact
= 2.53
Citations per Publication
= 27.8 +
CiteScore
SNIP, SJR +

21. CiteScore is easy for users to validate in Scopus Example shows CiteScore calculated for 2015
2011
2012
2013
2014
2016
2015 B A
CiteScore 2015 value B A =
CiteScore
A = Citations in one year to all documents published in previous 3 years
B = All documents (all document types, same as A) published in 3 years
CiteScore takes citations received in 2015 from documents published in the 3 preceding years
Key differences with IF are the citation window (3 vs. 2 or 5) and that the denominator uses all document types as in the numerator (vs. all citations and only citable items)
Note: if a serial receives a citation in 2015 to something published in 2010, that citation will not count towards this Metric. Other metrics in the basket will count this citation though – not every metric needs to do everything!
Note for reference: differences from the Impact Factor:
3-year citation window as opposed to 2 or 5 years. 2 or 5 years probably seemed OK when the Impact factor was created, 60 years ago, but much research has been done since then. Now we know that 2 years is unfair to the slower-moving fields, and 5 years is unfair to the faster-moving fields. In fact, 3 years has been identified by the bibliometrics research groups who calculate SNIP and SJR for us as the best compromise for a broad scope database, to incorporate a reasonable proportion of citations in all disciplines, while reflecting relatively recent data
In Impact Factor, B = “citable items”, generally taken to be articles and reviews
It’s not always entirely clear what a “citable item” is, and it can be open to interpretation, so the method is not completely transparent
This inconsistency between numerator and denominator also makes the Impact Factor open to manipulation e.g.
If a journal publishes a letter, this is often highly cited – the citations can be counted in the numerator, but the letter will not be counted in the denominator.
An editor can publish an editorial citing publications in previous years, and these citations will be counted in the Impact Factor numerator even though it is not counted in the denominator.
20XX
= Citations from 20XX |
= Documents published in year 20XX

22. The main advantages of CiteScore
Comprehensive
Current
Transparent
Based on broad content coverage in Scopus
All serials, not only journals
Can be calculated for portfolios
Available early in the year (May/June)
Running values calculated quarterly
New serials will have values after 1 year
CiteScore and associated metrics available for free
Underlying database available to interrogate
Easy to calculate yourself

23. Metrics are only useful if they are integrated in the right products, when you need it: Scopus.com (free layer)

24. CiteScore, SJR, SNIP values
In addition to CiteScore, we also have complementary metrics available via Scopus.com
CiteScore, SJR, SNIP values

25. Document and citation counts
More complementary metrics and full transparency on how CiteScore is calculated and the underlying data
Document and citation counts
% Cited
Percentile rank

26. What to look out for in 2016
Conclude with Scopus content roadmap for 2016

27. 2016 Scopus content roadmap
2015
OA Journal Indicator
Q1 2016
Completion books project (120k)
Q2 2016
Launch CiteScore
Q3 2016
Retraction & errata workflow
Funding data expansion
Q4 2016
Cited reference expansion complete (11M)
Article OA indicator Phase I
Most of the items already discussed
Operational and data quality improvements
Re-evaluation of journal coverage
Scopus Radar

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