1. It’s not about searching…. It’s about finding.
SCOPUS
It’s not about searching….
It’s about finding.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Presented by:
Barbara A. Wood, MLIS
Calder Library

2. What is in Scopus? Contains 47 million records, 70% with abstracts
Over 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide
Includes over 4.9 million conference papers
Offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities.

3. Scopus for Researchers
Easy navigation through the research literature.
Three dimensional evaluation of scientific information.
Researchers want to find the information they need, not become expert searchers
A tool that’s as easy to use as web search but delivers precise results
Takes researchers to the full-text article in just one click

4. Content Selection Criteria
Content Selection Committee (consisting of 20 scientist and 10 subject librarians) installed
Suggest new titles/sources
Yearly approval of title list
Contribute to overall strategy
Important criteria
At least abstract in English
Regular publication
Peer review/quality

5. Content of Scopus includes:
Peer Review Literature
Articles in Press
Patents
Websites
Conference Proceedings
Institutional Repositories

6. Author Identifier

7. Author Disambiguation
How to distinguish results between those belonging to one author and those belonging to other authors who share the same name?
How to be confident that your search has captured all results for an author when their name is recorded in different ways?
How to be sure that names with unusual characters such as accents have been included – including all variants?

8. Scopus identifies authors by:
Names
Affiliation
Co-authors
Self citations
Source title
Subject area

9. Citation Tracker

10. Why do we evaluate authors?
Promotion
Funding
Grants
Policy changes
Research tracking

11. H-index A metric to measure scientific productivity and impact
Not an average
Article number and citation number are equal or higher.
Citation count of article cannot be lower than total article count
Author’s total article count = 33
18 of the articles are cited at least 18 times : h-index = 18
(articles 19 through 33 are cited less than 18 times)

12. What Can You Do With Scopus? Let’s get busy. Go LIVE.
Subjects search
Author Search
Citation tracking
Source search-journals types of sources
Journal Evaluation
Save search history
Set up Alerts

13. Scopus Practice Exercises
Find articles written by Varro E. Tyler a specialist in herbal medicine and pharmacology.
How many documents did you find?
How many times has his most recent article, PC- SPES: Herbal formulation for prostate cancer, been cited?

14. How many documents are in the latest issue of Food and Nutrition Bulletin?
How many documents does Dean Pascal Goldschmidt of the University of Miami have in Scopus?
What is Dr. Goldschmidt’s h-index?
Which journal is cited more frequently? Gut or Chest?

15. Please use this powerful tool
In 2012, did Gut or Chest publish more review articles?
Do a documents search on “green tea” AND “cancer,” published from 2000 to the present. Limit the search to a conference paper in the health sciences. How many documents did you retrieve?
Please use this powerful tool
Questions or Comments?