1. 1 ScopusScopus Empowering Your Research

2. 2 As a Comprehensive Abstracts Database ~18,000 sources (90% peer-reviewed journals) from 5,000 publishers Comprehensive coverage on Scientific, Technical, Medical and Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities area Substantial Asia-Pacific and non-US/UK sources As a Citation Analysis Tool Citations Analysis of researchers, institution, journal, research area, etc. What is Scopus? What can it do?

3. 3 Search Foundamentals

4. 4 Access via E-Databases

5. 5 Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases environmental education finds over 22,000 records

6. 6 Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases “environmental education” reduces results to under 2,400 records

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

8. 8 “environmental education” as KEYWORDS reduces results to 1,300 records Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision

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

10. 10 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  29 Records Only

11. 11 At the Results Screens: you can also add Additional Search Terms, add Limit Fields

12. 12 You can Refine Results by “Limit to” or “Exclude” by Subject Area, Year, Document Type, etc.

13. 13 At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting Order (the default order is by “Date”)

14. 14 Cited By : Find out who is citing a particular article

15. 15 Cited By : Find out who is citing a particular article

16. 16 Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index) Web of Science Academic Search Premier Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)http://scholar.google.com/ Other Citation Databases Accessible to HKIEd Users

17. 17 Can I get the Full Text?

18. 18 Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability

19. 19 View at Publisher redirects you to publisher web site but gives you free Full Text ONLY IF HKIEd has subscribed to this Journal

20. 20 The Result Screen in Details

21. 21 A Typical SCOPUS Record Citation information for documents in Scopus which have cited this article since 1996. To set up a E-mail Alert or subscribe to an RSS feeds Find related documents To print, export, email or create a bibliography, click Output Link to Full-text only if institution has a subscription

22. 22 You can Output Selected Records to Email, Printer, Create a Reference List or Direct Export to RefWorks

23. 23 SCOPUS Records Easily Exported to RefWorks

24. 24 Create your Bibliography Choose output format and Style SCOPUS also provides its own Quick Bibliography Builder

25. 25 SCOPUS also provides its own Quick Bibliography Builder

26. 26 Personalization Features

27. 27 Must register own ID and log in to take advantage of personalization features

28. 28 With your personal SCOPUS Login, you can: Save your search history Create your saved lists Set up email keyword search alerts or email citation alerts

29. 29 Search History Save your Searches

30. 30 Set Search Alert (RSS / Email)

31. 31 Set Citation Alert

32. 32 Save Your List of Result

33. 33 Save List for future reference, creating your bibliographies etc.

34. 34 Author Identifier & Citation Analysis Track a Researcher’s work using Author Identifier and Citation Tracker

35. 35 Citation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond

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38. 38 h-index in Scopus Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace activist.

39. 39 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. For example The h index for Mark Bray Considers Scopus articles published after 1996 = 4 (4 out of 18 documents have each been cited at least 4 times)

40. 40 Properties of the h-Index 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..etc..etc See Prof. Hirsch’s paper at : http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025

41. 41 Analyze Journal : Journal analyzer

42. 42 Type in a journal title here

43. 43 Double click to select a journal title. A graph will appear on the other side showing total citations, article published, etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could be selected for comparison at a time Total Citation chart shows the number of times documents from the journals were cited in other documents during a specific year. Articles Published chart shows the number of documents published in a journals during a specific year. Trend Lines chart shows the number of citations a journal has received in a year divided by the number of articles published in the same year.

44. 44 Exercise Let’s compare journals on “teacher education”

45. 45 Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

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47. 47 Affiliation Search: e.g. HKIEd

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50. 50 In 2007, Scopus Citation Data is used in the Top 200 University Rankings in the Times Higher Education Supplement HKU moved up from 33 to 18, CUHK 50 to 38, HKUST 58 to 53, City U 154 to 149 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=144 More information about Scopus…

51. 51 Reasons given were : Scopus has less bias towards the U.S. Many Asia-Pacific Journals are covered in Scopus. Scopus covers sources in languages other than English  better citation data for institutions who have high quality research in their own language …We have used five years of citations between 2002 and 2006 as indexed by Scopus, a leading supplier of such data. Scopus has replaced Thomson Scientific as supplier of citations data. We are confident that Scopus’s coverage is at least as thorough as Thomson’s, especially in non-English language journals… http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400068

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