1. Scopus A tool for authors
Maynooth University
Scopus A tool for authors
Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier,
29th October 2014

2. What will you learn?
At the end of this presentation, you should be able to answer:
What content does Scopus index
How can researchers see who is citing their work, compare journals, how can they identify research collaborators, stay up to date, decide where to publish?
Overview of the bibliometrics, what is available in SCOPUS?
Where to find further information

3. Scopus in Context
A new article is published every 2 minutes
Every day 10 titles are recommended to be added to Scopus

4. Refine your search strategies
Too many researchers have abandoned all the value of libraries when they stopped going there physically! There is more than Learn what online resources are available at your institute, and learn to search in a clever way.

5. Internet vs databases

6. What content does Scopus index?

7. The largest abstract and citation database of research information
21,000+ active titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including coverage of:
- Life Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
New improved Independent journal metrics
- SNIP: The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fields
- SJR: The SCImago Journal Rank reflects prestige of source - value of weighted citations per document
SciVal is one part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio, with which we aim to provide you with the most holistic, integrated approach to using data as an input into their decision making. The portfolio serves 2 fundamentally different needs of research institutions:
The first is for a broad and consistent view of all institutions to identify strengths and weakness by benchmarking
The second is for a very deep view of an institution using a using a single, common and validated version of its own data that have been linked together from wherever they are held within the institution
We offer 3 ways of providing the broad and consistent view to cater to the different ways that people like to interact with and digest information:
SciVal, to gain comprehensive overview of the world’s research and to interact with the information themselves to benchmark against others,
Pure, which offers from a turnkey expertise profiling and research networking tool, to a fully integrated research information system to gain deep view of your own institution by unifying both internal and external data into a single platform,
Analytical Services, for projects that require customized reports, and for those who want to use Scopus Custom Data in their own databases.
In addition, we offer optional services such as Profile Refinement Services which improves the accuracy of publications assigned to each author, and Fingerprint Engine which processes unstructured text and compiles a collection of key concepts representing each article.
And we have custom solution aimed to support funding bodies as well.

8. What content does Scopus include?
Scopus contains over 53.3 million records
32 million records include references going back to 1996
21 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823
> 21,912 peer-reviewed journals & 30,000 books from publishers
(including articles-in-press from Elsevier, Springer / Kluwer, 3,850 journals)
In addition to traditional scientific and academic journals, Scopus also covers:
2,800 Open Access journals
5.5 million conference papers from proceedings & journals (10% of Scopus records)
367 Trade Publications
421 Book Series
Medline (100% coverage)
24 million patents records, from 5 Patent Offices (WIPO, UPO, EPO, JPO, UKPO)
Interoperability with ScienceDirect, SciVal, PURE, Reaxys, Engineering Village, Embase and other Elsevier products

9. What content does Scopus include?
JOURNALS
20,874 peer-reviewed journals
367 trade journals
- Full metadata, abstracts and
cited references (pre-1996)
- >2,800 fully Open Access titles
- Going back to 1823
- Funding data from
acknowledgements
CONFERENCES
17k events
5.5M records (10%)
Conf. expansion:
1,000 conferences
6,000 conf. events
400k conf. papers
5M citations
Mainly Engineering and Physical Sciences
BOOKS
421 book series
- 28K Volumes
- 925K items
29,917 books
- 311K items
Books expansion:
75K books by 2015
- Focus on Social Sciences and A&H
PATENTS
24M patents
from 5 major
patent offices
Physical
Sciences
6,600
Health
Sciences
6,300
Titles in Scopus are classified under four broad subject clusters (life sciences, physical sciences, health sciences
and social sciences & humanities) which are further divided into 27 major subject areas
Journals:
Conferences
A Conference paper is a Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium
- Over 10% of the Scopus database is comprised of conference papers (5.5 million) of which 1.6 million are published
in journals, book series and other sources. The remaining 3.9 million are published in conference proceedings.
- Conference coverage in Scopus is focused primarily on those subject areas where conference papers represent
a substantial portion of published research, e.g. engineering, computer science, and some areas of physics.
Books: 75 books by 2015, 10k annually from then on. Monographs, edited volumes, major reference works, graduate level text books
Social
Sciences
6,350
Life
Sciences
4,050

10. Scopus & Mendeley

11. NEW: Mendeley readership statistics went live on March 7, 2014
Mendeley readership statistics of a specific article:
The beta version of Mendeley readership statistics went live on March 7, This new feature shows how many times Mendeley users have downloaded a specific article to their libraries. Additionally, it also shows a demographic breakdown by discipline, academic status and country of origin.

12. NEW: Mendeley readership statistics went live on March 7, 2014

13. Scopus export to Mendeley library

14. Online Demo

15. Registering a Personal Profile and logging into Scopus

16. Registering a Personal Profile:
Although Scopus uses IP verification, you can get the best out of it and save a lot of research time by creating your own Personal Profile.
Your Personal Profile allows you to:
Save searches for later references
Create search alerts
Create citation alerts to specific articles
Save lists of selected articles
Save your own groups of author names
Request corrections to your Author Profile

17. Registering a Personal Profile:
Enter your details
Choose your password
Define your primary field(s) of interest
Click on register

18. Registering a Personal Profile:
Take your new username and log in here. An has also been sent to you with your username and confirmation of your password.

19. Settings
After you log in, you can access all your personal information by clicking on ‘Settings’

20. Alerts
Use alerts to receive notices when new documents are loaded on Scopus. From the Alerts page, you can create alerts, view the latest results for an alert, edit alerts, and delete alerts

21. Different options of search:
Document search:
Recommended for most users
Author search:
Recommended for information about specific authors,
their articles and citations
Affiliation search:
Recommended for the output of specific institutions
Advanced search:
Recommended for librarians and users experienced with complex query building
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After this go life

22. Managing results Analyze results
Output options: Save, Download, Export, Print, ,
Create a bibliography, add to my list
Citation overview

23. Enter the search terms and combine them with Boolean operators.
TITLE-ABS-KEY("Wireless sensor network" AND protocol)
Limit to Engineering
Save
Analyze
Limit to
Choose the field where the term must be searched.
The default fields are: title, abstract and keywords
Limit your search by publication year, discipline or type of content

24. Refine your results
Limit to or exclude results based on lists of Source titles,
Author names, Year, Document Type, Subject area,
Keywords, Language, Source Type or Affiliation
AND/OR
Search within your results
Most obvious one to refine your search is on the right hand side:
Sort by (by default newest)
cited by (to see most cited documents)
Show abstract: to gain more information
Left hand side you see more functions to define search:
You can refine results either limit to or Exclude
You can open and close them according to you preferences and also change the order
Years
Limit to Medicine
Author: view more: top 40
View all
Clicking on the author: short overview who is it (going to look into it deeper later)

25. Citation overview: possible applications
Grant application for research groups
Recruitment
Evaluation of a university, department or research group’s scientific output
Choosing a mentor for a master or PhD program
It can be added to author’s CV or homepage

26. Citation Overview: what is it?
- Real-time calculation of citations overview for:
A selection of articles
A selection of articles or all the articles by one specific author
All articles published by one specific journal for a given year
- All citation counts and links to articles are displayed on the same screen
- Easy to print and export
Citation Overview
If you would like to compare citations for articles, authors or journals you can use the functionality “Citation Overview”
The Citation Overview includes the number of times the documents were cited, by publication year.
You can view, print or export a list of the citing documents.
Publication dates for citations are available from 1996 to > current year.

27. How to use it: go online Select the articles to be analyzed:
Run a keyword/author/affiliation search and select the articles from results, or
Search/browse for the journal you want to analyze
From the results list or journal page, click on:
Adjust the parameters if necessary (date range, exclude self citations,
sort articles by date/citations) and click on
You can also save this list of articles for future reference
and print or export the Citation Overview

28. Find out what is being cited and from where
View a citation overview of the selected documents
View documents citing the selected documents

29. Find the best journal to submit your paper Which journal publishes most articles on your research topic?
Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all journals publishing articles on your research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic included
For example which journal is most relevant for your research topic : filter on resource

30. Find potential collaborating institutes Which institute publishes most articles on your research topic?
Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all names of institutes where authors work who publish on you research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic per institute
Same goes for collaborating with institutes by filtering on “Affiliation”

31. Find potential co-authors Which author publishes most articles on your research topic?
Following a Scopus search on your research topic, the “Refine results” window displays a listing of all authors who publish in your research topic and the numbers of articles on your topic per author
You could also search for potential co-authors by filtering on “author name”

32. Scopus Analytics Compare your target journals
You can use the Journal Analyzer to compare up to 10 Scopus sources on a variety of parameters: SJR, SNIP, citations, documents, and percentage of documents not cited.
But that is not all, you can also a tool called “Journal Analyzer” to compare several journals that are relevant for your research topic
Compare Lancet
Science
Nature
British medical journal

33. Scopus Analytics Select the journal(s) you want to evaluate
At the Browse sources home page, click Compare journals. The Journal Analyzer opens with the source added to the analyzer.
Before we look further at the categories on which you can compare journals I would like to show you a bit more about the differences in publishing and citiations between the different disciplines.
To compare journals from different disciplines you would have to somehow “ normalize” them.
Example: You can’t compare xx with xy as xx ususally has much higher citations than…..

34. Analyzing search results
Scopus provides an analysis of your search results. The analysis shows you the number of documents in your search results broken down (on separate tabs)
Scopus has an Analyze results page where you can perform an analysis of search results. On the Search results page click Analyze results to display the analysis. This tool analyzes the quantity of results by a date range, while the Citation Overview analyzes the citations of results.

35. Scopus Analytics SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
Developed by Felix de Moya (Spain).SJR is a prestigue metric and weights citations according to the status of the citing journal. It is based on the idea that all citations are not created equal. With SJR the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct effect on the value of the citation.
A source transfers its own 'prestige', or status, to another source through the act of citing it.
A citation from a source with a relatively high SJR is worth more than a citation from a source with a lower SJR.
SJR measure prestigue
Developed by Felix de Moya
One of the limitations of traditional journal citation analysis is that all citations are considered “equal”
A citation from a widely-read multidisciplinary journal counts as strongly as one from a more focused or local-interest source.
SJR is a prestigue metric and weights citations according to the status the citing journal and aimes to measure journal prestigue rather than popularity
3. Basic idea
If a journal A is cited, say 100 times by the most highly ranked journal in the field, it receives more prestigue than a journal B that is also cited 100x but from a less presstigue periodical.

36. Scopus Analytics SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
Developed by Henk Moed at CWS, Univ of Leiden (NL). SNIP is weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given a higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.
It represents the likelihood of being cited for documents in a particular field. A source in a field with a high citation potential will tend to have a high impact per paper.
SNIP :
normalized impact per paper between subject fields1.
Created by Professor Henk Moed
SNIP corrects the differences in topicality between subject fields. It takes into account differences not only between, but also within journal subjects categories.
It is a ratio of a journal’s citation impact and the degree of topicality of its subject field
3. SNIP takes a research fields citation frequency into account and considers immediacy – how quickly a paper is likely to have an impact in a given field.
4. The impact of a single citation is given a higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.

37. Scopus Analytics The number of times a source has been cited in a year.
If a total of 50 articles has been published in the source over the last 5 years and 10 of those articles have been cited once in the current year, then the total number of citations for the year would be 10.
Real citations can be a way of comparing in this tool as well, especially good if you calculate it you compare the average citations with the average documents per year.

38. Scopus Analytics
The total number of documents published in the journal in the year

39. Scopus Analytics The percentage of articles not cited
Compare sources by the percentage of documents published in a year that have never been cited to date.
Finally a category I think is really interesting and important as an author, which percentage of items in a specific journal is never cited.

40. Scopus Analytics The percentage of documents in the year that are review articles
Compare sources by the percentage of documents published in a year that are review articles
What’s a “Review Article?”
Not to be confused with a “peer reviewed journal,” Review articles are an attempt by one or more writers to sum up the current state of the research on a particular topic. Ideally, the writer searches for everything relevant to the topic, and then sorts it all out into a coherent view of the “state of the art” as it now stands. Review Articles will teach you about::
the main people working in a field
recent major advances and discoveries
significant gaps in the research
current debates
ideas of where research might go next
Review Articles are virtual gold mines if you want to find out what the key articles are for a given topic. If you read and thoroughly digest a good review article, you should be able to “talk the talk” about a given topic. Unlike research articles, review articles are good places to get a basic idea about a topic.

41. ORCID: Author Profile 2.0 since October 2012
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. 
ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors and national boundaries. It is a hub that connects researchers and research through the embedding of ORCID identifiers in key workflows, such as research profile maintenance, manuscript submissions, grant applications, and patent applications.
Open
Researcher &
Contributor ID
What is ORCID?
ORCID seeks to remedy the systemic name ambiguity problem by assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individual's research output and to facilitate an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants and patents.
ORCID has brought together the leaders of the most influential universities, funding organizations, societies, publishers and corporations to enhance the scientific discovery process and improve collaboration and the efficiency of research funding.
Its uses:
It is hoped to aid "the transition from science to e-Science, wherein scholarly publications can be mined to spot links and ideas hidden in the ever-growing volume of scholarly literature
is to provide each researcher with "a constantly updated ‘digital curriculum vitae’ providing a picture of his or her contributions to science going far beyond the simple publication list

42. The Solution: The ORCID Registry
Dr. Smith
Dr. J. Smith
Dr. James Smith
Dr. James Smith
ORCID Mission:
ORCID aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers

43. Save Time
Importing your authors’ information from Scopus is faster and more accurate than manually entering information in ORCID.
Improve Your Researchers’ Scopus Author Profiles
Changes made while using the wizard will be processed in Scopus Author Profiles (approximate time: 8 weeks)
Authors can use Scopus to populate their ORCID profile via Scopus Author Profiles, the Scopus2ORCID Wizard at orcid.scopusfeedback.com or from ORCID!

44. ORCID link in the new Author Profile (May release)

45. ALTMETRIC For more information: www.altmetric.com
Altmetric is aa London-based start-up focused on making article level metrics easy. Their mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature.
Altmetric tracks what people are saying about papers online on behalf of institutions, publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.
For more information:

46. Altmetric offer four potential advantages:
- A more nuanced understanding of impact, showing us which scholarly products are read, discussed, saved and recommended as well as cited. (Mendeley etc)
- Often more timely data, showing evidence of impact in days instead of years.
- A window on the impact of web-native scholarly products like
datasets, software, blog posts, videos and more.
- Indications of impacts on diverse audiences including scholars but
also practitioners, clinicians, educators and the general public

47. Tomorrow’s filters: ALTMETRIC
“In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 400 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); as many as a third of scholars are on Twitter, and a growing number tend scholarly blogs”
Source: o/
No one can read everything.  We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. Altmetrics include metrics of use such as views or mentionings in social media
What does Altmetric do? Altmetric watches social media sites (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+), science blogs, many mainstream media outlets (including the NY Times, The Guardian, non-English language publications like Die Zeit & Le Monde and special interest publications like Scientific American, New Scientist) and reference managers for mentions of academic papers
The Altmetric application is currently installed for all Scopus users by default (you can choose to disable it if you wish) but will only appear in the sidebar when there is data available for the article that you're currently viewing

48. Almetric

49. Almetric

50. Altmetric

51. Altmetric

52. Altmetric

53. ALTMETRIC on Scopus: Demographics

54. Tips and Tricks Using ScienceDirect
Elsevier’s full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books.

55. ScienceDirect: images
Image search allows users to search across e.g. approximately 15 million images and three thousand videos (and growing) from both journal and book content published post Students, teachers and researchers can benefit from more efficient access to valuable visual content in the form of figures, videos and other imagery from the world’s largest collection of scientific, technical and medical full-text literature.

56. ScienceDirect: images

57. ScienceDirect: Top 25 hottest article
ScienceDirect Top 25 is a freely available service which provides users with lists of the 25 most frequently downloaded articles for a three-month period based on a particular journal title (2,500+) and/or subject (24 core subject areas).

58. ScienceDirect: Top 25 hottest article

59. Where to find further information

60. Scopus info site: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus
Support and training:
Elsevier Training Desk:
Mendeley:

61. Questions?