0 Access to Excellent Research: Scopus in Lithuania Dr. Wim Meester Head of Content Strategy Scopus http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9350-3448 March 18, 2015
1 Scientific output versus FWCI for the Baltic States Estonia (2012) Latvia (2012) Lithuania (2012) Link to interactive chart
2 Today we will focus on Scopus but remember that the Scopus database also underpins other solutions RESEARCH OUTCOMES APIs Custom Data Mendeley METRICS SCOPUS DATABASE
3 How Scopus and Scopus data support the researcher workflow Find out what already exists in the global world of research output Determine how to differentiate your research topic and find new ideas Decide what, where and with whom to partner or collaborate with Identify and analyze which journals to submit your article; get published Track impact of your research; monitor global research trends Manage your career through citation counts and h-index (and other metrics)
4 What content does Scopus include? 56.4M records from 22,025 serial titles and 75.539 books 21.3M pre 1996 records 35.1M post 1995 records Content from > 5,000 publishers Articles in Press from > 3,750 titles Titles from 105 different countries in all geographical regions 40 local languages covered More than 2,800 Gold Open Access journals indexed Scopus is ideal compared to other products because it has the broadest coverage of global, curated, relevant research, with smart, simple tools to help track, analyze and visualize research.
Source: Scopus title list (February 2015) 5 What content does Scopus include? Physical Sciences 7,456 Health Sciences 6,834 Social Sciences 8,042 Life Sciences 4,509 JOURNALS 21,150 peer-reviewed journals 359 trade journals Full metadata, abstracts and cited references (references for post-1995 only) >2,800 fully Open Access titles Going back to 1823 Funding data from acknowledgements CONFERENCES 82K events 6.8M records (12%) Conf. expansion (2005 2013): 1,017 conferences 6,022 conf. events 410K conf. papers 5M citations Mainly Engineering and Physical Sciences BOOKS 512 book series - 28K Volumes - 1.0M items 75,539 books - 621K items Books expansion: 120K books by 2015 - Focus on Social Sciences and A&H PATENTS 24M patents from 5 major patent offices: UK US Japan Europe World
6 Pre-1996 cited reference expansion Coverage years Number of articles Pre-1996, going back to 1970 Around 8M+ articles will be reprocessed to include cited references. In addition around 4M pre-1996 articles will be backfilled Already 2.3M pre-1996 documents loaded in Scopus leading to additional 55M cited references: Scope Archives from major publishers with available digital archives H-index for senior researchers increases: 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 Author 4 10-Jul 22-Aug 14-Nov 20-Nov 4-Dec 30-Dec 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 2015 processing planning: Tier 4 Tier 3 Tier 2 23-Jan 10% Tier 1 0%
Source: Web of Science Real Facts, Web of Science title list and Scopus own data (April 2014) 7 Comparison with nearest peer ~21K titles >5,000 publishers Updated daily Scopus 21,671 Web of Science 12,491 Core Collection ~12K titles 3,300 publishers Updated weekly Scopus 7,410 (+78%) Scopus 6,740 (+97%) Scopus 4,436 (+50%) Scopus 7,684 (+90%) WoS 4,188 WoS 3,415 WoS 2,954 WoS 4,016 Physical Sciences Health Sciences Life Sciences Social Sciences
8 Breadth of coverage in the Baltic States (documents) Documents with Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia country affiliation 2010 2014: 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Source: Scopus data February 2015 Estonia Lithuania Latvia
9 Breadth of coverage in Baltic States (journals) Journals from Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia: 40 35 30 25 67 active journals from Baltic States in Scopus Of which 30 Scopus-unique Where do Lithuanian researchers publish (2010 2014): Lithua nian journal s 21% Interna tional journal s 79% 20 15 10 And in what language: Lithuanian (14%) Other (1.5%) 5 0 Estonia (Scopus) Estonia (WoS) Lithuania (Scopus) Lithuania (WoS) Latvia (Scopus) Latvia (WoS) English 92% Source: Scopus and WoS title list February 2015
10 High quality journals due to selection by the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) The CSAB is chosen for their expertise in specific subject areas; many have (journal) Editor experience Focus on quality through content selection by the independent CSAB, because: Provide accurate and relevant search results for users No dilution of search results by irrelevant or low quality content Support that Scopus is recognized as authoritative Support confidence that Scopus reflects the truth ERA (Australia) UNAM
Continuous review process using the online Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP) Info: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview Questions: titlesuggestion@scopus.com 11 Transparent Scopus selection criteria for serial content 1. All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review: Peer-review English abstracts Regular publication Roman script references Pub. ethics statement 2. Eligible titles are reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a combination of 14 quantitative & qualitative selection criteria grouped in 5 categories: Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability 3. As a primary publisher and information aggregator, Elsevier understands the needs of Authors, Editors and Publishers and provides resources to support the community: Review comments and FAQs from CSAB Publication ethics resources Publishing services Editor sections on Elsevier.com Research Trends and Editor Update Newsletters
12 All Scopus journals have journal metrics measuring citation performance Elsevier Journal Metrics strategy: Provide the most complete picture possible of how a journal is performing, and of how it is perceived. It is impossible for a single metric to do everything, so we offer a basket of metrics www.journalmetrics.com/
Scopus API to provide Scopus data as key citation information on the publisher platform 13
14 Integration of article level metrics into Scopus Mendeley readership Statistics shows how many times Mendeley users have downloaded a specific article to their libraries. Altmetric is a way to see all of the social or mainstream media mentions gathered for a particular paper as well as reader counts on popular reference managers
15 Scopus is the Gold standard: more than 150 leading research organizations rely on Scopus data Michigan Corporate Relations Network ReachNC MD Anderson Queen s University Belfast UK REF UK BIS STINT Danish BFI European Commission & ERC FCT Portugal NSF Italy ANVUR Gazi University Kiel University Germany IFQ Russian Foundation of Basic Research Estonia Research Council NCN Poland ISTIC IISER Peking University TCI - Thailand Ural Federal University Keio University NRF -Korea CAPES Brazil Nigerian Government Nanyang Technological University ERA 2014 Rankings:
International collaboration is rising 16
Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2013) 17 International collaboration leads to increase of Field Weighted Citation Index (Lithuania)
Finding potential collaborators 18
New: usage trends. Example for Higgs Boson 19
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