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HOW TO GET THE BEST BENEFIT
OUT OF SCOPUS?
Ozge Sertdemir- Customer Consultant for Iran, Gulf and Central Asia
2019
Agenda
• Why use Scopus?
• Scopus Content
• Benefits of Using Scopus
• Content Selection
• Research Metrics
• Document / Author / Affiliation Search and analysis tools
• Source Profiles
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Challenges of Researchers
Keeping up with
scientific literature –
2.5 million new articles
are published each
year
Lack of citations
received
Finding the right
collaborator
Finding the right
journal to publish
Graduation /
Recognition and
increase reputation
Poor time
managementGetting research
funding
Finding the relevant
one among vast
amount of
misleading
information
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Research and Publication ProcessWriting a paper is a long process; defining a subject area, building the manuscript and publishing
may take a period of 1-2 years. For high quality journals this time can be 2-3 years!
o Determining the subject area
o It must be original, attractive and not too general
o It must bring significant advances in the field
o It must have clear context and relations with previous work,
o Literature Review
o Building Hypothesis
o Determining the type of article
o Writing in English will increase your visibility and metrics!
Reading and searching is the key step in publishing process, use
Scopus and ScienceDirect to increase the quality of your publications!
Why use Scopus not just Google it?
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1. Scopus is designed specifically to support search and result handling for scholarly literature
2. Scopus has only peer-reviewed literature from bona-fide sources
3. It has the broadest coverage of any database, and we know exactly what is in it
4. Consistency and transparency : No mystery: every results can be explained by the search you did and what is in the content
5. It uses technology in a broader level : you can get more information by using related documents and recommendations
HOW CAN SCOPUS
HELP YOU ACHIEVE
THESE GOALS?
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Brief Refreshment on Scopus
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+70 Million Multiple regional content types from more than 5.000 publishers and 105countries
*Records back to 1788*Over 8.000 ‘article in press’ *Over 4.000 active Gold Open Access journals are indexed*Additional enhanced metadata, i.e. 100% Medline coverage
*Database is updated daily*40 different languages are covered*Automatically generated researcher and affiliation profiles
23,576 peer-reviewed journals
308 trade journals
• Full metadata, abstracts and cited references (refs post-1970 only)
• Funding data from acknowledgements
• Citations back to 1970
Physical Sciences
Health Sciences
SocialSciences
LifeSciences
106K conference events
9M conference papers
Mainly Engineering and Computer Sciences
742 book series
38K volumes
195K stand-alone books
1.64M items
BOOKSCONFERENCESJOURNALS
27M patents
From 5 major patent offices- WIPO- EPO- USPTO- JPO- UK IPO
PATENTS*
Source: Scopus.com, April 2019
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and features smart tools that allow you track, analyse and visualize scholarly research
Publisher Coverage
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Subject Coverage
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Health Sciences13,819 titles
31%
Physical Sciences12,263 titles
28%16%
Life Sciences6,809 titles
Social Sciences10,905 titles
25%
Titles on Scopus are classified under 4 subject clusters and indexed into 27 main subject areas:
* Includes active titles. Titles may fall into more than one subject area
Who uses Scopus?Scopus is recognized as the Gold standard in 4.500 universities and 150 leading research
organizations worldwide. A lot of global key reports and national assessments also use Scopus data
WHAT ARE THE ABILITIES OF SCOPUS?
01
• Find the latest search
• Discover subject areas through
different filters such as language,
country, access type etc
• Benefit from document analysis tool
03AFFILIATION SEARCH
• Find +70,000 affiliation
• Measure the impact of any affiliation :
Evaluate their performance through its
documents, authors, and collaborators
• Find new opportunities as a
researcher
AUTHOR SEARCH02
• Find +12 million author profile
• Measure the impact of any
researcher : Evaluate their
documents, subject areas, h-index
• Find possible collaborations
• Find experts in a specific subject
• Benefit from author analysis tool
FIND THE RIGHT JOURNAL04
• Compare different journals
according to subject area or
publisher by different metrics
DOCUMENT SEARCH
Content Selection in
Scopus
Selection Process & Criteria
Scopus content is selected via independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)
The CSAB is an independent board of
subject experts from all over the world.
Board members are chosen for their
expertise in specific subject areas; many
have (journal) Editor experience.
The CSAB is selective and strict on quality:
in total 5,411 titles reviewed (2011 –2015)
of which 2,587 (48%) accepted for Scopus
For more info:
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content/content-policy-and-selection or [email protected]
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/95118/SC_FAQ-content-selection-process-22092014.pdf
Maintaining high-quality: Scopus rigorous re-evaluation process and criteria
Selection Process & Criteria
All titles should meet all
minimum criteria in
order to be considered
for
Scopus review:
Peer-
reviewedEnglish
abstractsRegular
publicationRoman script
referencesPub. Ethics
statement
Eligible titles are
reviewed by the CSAB
according to a
combination of 14
quantitative and
qualitative selection
criteria:
• Convincing editorial
concept/policy
• Type of peer-review
• Diversity geographic
distribution of editors
• Diversity geographic
distribution of authors
• Academic contribution
to the field
• Clarity of abstracts
• Quality and conformity
with stated aims & scope
• Readability of articles
• Citedness of journal
articles in Scopus
• Editor standing
• No delay in publication
schedule
• Content available online
• English-language journal
home page
• Quality of home page
Journal policy Quality of
ContentJournal
standingRegularity
Online
Availability
Structural approach: Ongoing content curation to ensure continuous
high quality contentCuration of the full journal base is essential and expected by our customers and users.
There is transparent, annual re-evaluation process to ensure titles continue to meet high quality standards
Identification of poor
performing journals
using metrics and
benchmarks
“Radar” to predict
journals with outlier
performance
Direct feedback from
users and
stakeholders on poor
performing journals
Re-evaluation by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)
Content Curation
Review:
Curate:
Sudden output
growth & shift in
geographical
diversity
Research Metrics in
Scopus
WHY USE RESEARCH METRICS?
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Entities to which
metrics apply:It is critical to use right metrics
for right entities, and not missing
them with each other!
GOLDEN RULE
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When used correctly, research metrics together with qualitative input give a balanced, multi-dimensional view for decision-making
Always use both qualitative and
quantitative input into your
decisions
Always use more than one
research metric as the
quantitative input
Golden rule #1 Golden rule #2
“There is no single ‘best’ indicator that could accommodate all facets of
the new reality of bibliometrics.”
- Wolfgang Glänzel, Head of bibliometrics group
Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium
METRICS IN SCOPUS
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Journal Level
Metrics
• CiteScore
• SNIP
• SJR
Article Level
Metrics
• Citation Count
• Field weighted citation
impact (FWCI)
• Plum metrics
Author Level
Metrics
• Document Count
• Citation Count
• H-Index
• Co-authors Count
Variety of metrics are available in Scopus to better analyze and evaluate the research
Journal Level Metrics in Scopus
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CiteScore : CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items
published in that journal in the preceding 3 years. Calculation is below:
1
B
A
CiteScore 2015 value
B
A
=
Differences from Impact Factor:
• IF - citation to 2 or 5 years of documents are
covered.
• Citations in all type of documents in these years
covered, while citable items are only articles and
reviews
Advantages of CiteScore:
• Comprehensive: based on Scopus, available for all serial
titles
• Transparent: Available for free, easy to calculate for
yourself. Underlying database is available for you to
interrogate
• Current: Updated monthly. New titles will have CiteScore a
year after indexed
Journal Level Metrics in Scopus
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SNIP – Source Normalized Impact per paper :
2 • It is developed by Henk Moed - CWTS (Centre for Science and Technology Studies)- Leiden University
• It Measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal, correcting for the differences in citation practices
between scientific fields and therefore allowing for more accurate between-field comparisons of citation impact.
• Its calculation is based on last 3 years.
It is field-normalized and allows us the direct comparison of sources in different subject fields!
3SJR – SCImago Journal Rank:
• It is developed by by Felix de Moya, CSIC (Spanish Research Council)
• It is a Prestige metric -advocates not all citations are the same
• Citations are weighted depending on the status of the source they come from.
• The subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct impact on the value of a citation. This means that a
citation from a source with a relatively high SJR is worth more than a citation from a source with a lower SJR
• Its calculation is based on last 3 years.
Article Level Metrics in Scopus
Citation Count: indicates how many times a paper was cited (according to the data in Scopus)1
FWCI – Field Weighted Citation Impact: indicates how well the paper is doing in comparison to
others in the same field. The numerator contains the number of citations and the denominator contains the
expected citation count, typical for an average paper in the field. Data is sourced from SciVal.
Average FWCI is 1, anything above 1 is considered as above average.
2
3 Mendeley: shows how many Mendeley users have this article in their libraries. It is an indicator of
readability of the article.
What is Plum Metrics? Plum Metrics helps measure the impact of the documents by tracking online platforms
It includes 5 categories of metrics:
USAGE(clicks, downloads, views,
library holdings, video
plays)
CAPTURES(bookmarks, code forks,
favorites, readers, watchers)
MENTIONS(blog posts, comments,
reviews, Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL
MEDIA(+1s, likes, shares,
tweets)
CITATIONS(citation indexes,
patent citations, clinical
citations)
Plum tracks activity from >50 platforms, and we continue to invest more:
How to utilize Plum Metrics?
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• See the alternative metrics of the selected article such as usage, captures, mentions, social media and citations –these are shown only if available!
• Once you click ‘see details’ link, it will show you all underlying data• This will help you showcase your research and measure its impact globally!
What is H-Index?
H- index :
• It is Originated by Jorge Hirsch in 2005
• A group of papers has index h if h of the papers have at least h citations
each, and the other papers have no more than h citations each.
• Attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work
of a scholar
• Incorporates quantity and quality
• Productivity and age constraints
If an author’s h-index is 10, it means he has 10 articles that each
of them have at least 10 citations !
Tips on Using Scopus most effectively
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1. Before making any search, first click ‘REGISTER’ and create an account to get the best benefit from Scopus.2. Please make sure of being in the institution’s IP range once register3. Click ‘LOGIN’ and begin using own account.
DOCUMENT SEARCH
How to do Document Search on Scopus?
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1. Document Search: type a keyword, you can always get benefit from “search tips”2. You can restrict your search using a specific field like author name, article title, abstract, keywords etc3. You can type OR or AND in the same box to make your search more specific (visit search tips link)4. Limit button allows you to find more precise results.
What Scopus search does automatically?
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1. Accented characters :
2. Lemmatization: attack, attacks ; wide, wider
3. Equivalents: behaviour and behaviour, ω and omega
4. Punctuation: is ignored – commas, hyphens, ? ! Etc
5. Stop words: words like ‘the’, ‘it’ and ‘of’ are excluded from search- A list can be found in Scopus help
6. Override with exact phrase : { } will find only an exact match for a word, phrase or character (including stop words)
Phrases and separate words
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1. For example: typing conversion disorder could find a document with disorders of vision in thetitle and image conversion in the keywords at the same time.
IF you do not specify anything between two words, Scopus joins them with AND so the wordsmay not necessarily be together
2. IF you want to search for exact phrases, you should use “double quotes’’For example : typing “ conversion disorder” will find you the documents that include thisphrasein exact order.
More Tips
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Quotation Marks (“ ”)
Let’s say we are searching for heart attack:
• Heart attack → the results will include all documents which have both words occurring them, even if they are far away from each other: the results will be same as for a search phrase of heart AND attack
• “heart attack” → the results will include all docs which have words heart and attack next to each other in exactly the given order
• “heart att*” → the results will include all docs which have a phrase starting with ‘heart’ followed by any word beginning with ‘att’ i. e. attack, attribute, attractive, attentive etc
• Punctuation is ignored (heart-attack = heart attack)
• Both singular and plural forms, as well as typical variations in spelling (color-colour) are included.
More Tips
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Brackets { }
• {Heart attack} → the results will include all documents in which the exact phase heart attack is present
• {heart?} → replaces a single character, results will include heart, hearts, hearty etc.
• {h*r*t} → replaces zero or more characters; heart, harvest, homograft, hypervalent etc
• Punctuation is NOT ignored (heart-attack =/= heart attack)
• Both singular and plural forms, as well as typical variations in spelling (color-colour) are included.
More Tips
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Proximity
You can determine the proximity of the search terms:
• W/n→ determines how many words can separate the two entered search terms, it does NOT determine which word is the first one.
• Pain W/3 morphine → the results will include all entries where the words ‘pain’ and ‘morphine’ are no more than 3 words apart.
• PRE / n → acts in the same manner as W/n BUT it determines the order of the worlds.
• Pain PRE/3 morphine → the results will include all entries where the word ‘pain’ is followed by ‘morphine’ and is no more than 3 words away.
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How to utilize results page? – Personalize Scopus
1. You can create alerts in Scopus, this will notify you by email or RSS feed when a new article that matches your search conditions is listed
2. You can save this search condition and reuse it later
How to utilize results page? – Taking Advantage of Filters
1. You can add additional terms to your search by directly entering them in ‘search within results’ tab2. Use the Refine Results panel to limit your results list to certain categories of documents
How to utilize results page? – Taking Advantage of Filters
All of these filters are available to you in order to utilize your search results, find some tips below:
• Access type: Limits only open access content in Scopus that will allow you to reach full text as well (in another window)
• Year: Limits the display to documents published in a certain year, it is possible to reach article-in press content as well.
• Document type: Limits your results only to articles or conference papers or reviews etc
• Language: Limits your results to certain languages, Scopus includes more than 40 different languages. It is always possible to find Arabic content in Scopus.
How to utilize results page?
Several features available to you in results page:
• Export bibliographic information using reference managers Mendeley or RefWorks, or in file formats RIS, CSV, BibTex or Text
• Download it• View citation overview to analyze documents that cite
the selected articles. • View cited by displays all documents that cite the
selected articles.• You can save all of them to the list, and check it from
‘Lists’ tab later. • View references displays all documents referenced by the
article• Create bibliography change the output to the typical
reference list format.
Take a detailed look to documentsBy default, search results are listed by highest citation rate. Sort on Cited by, date, relevance, author name and source title etc. are the options
Take a detailed look to documentsHovering over a search result will show the following links:• View abstract : you can directly see the abstract of the document• Full text : to see if you have access the full-text article (depending on its access model)• View at publisher: directs you to the publisher’s page• Related documents: lists you all related documents in Scopus
How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly
• You can export the abstract and references to Reference Management Systems : Mendeley, RefWorks, Endnote etc.
• You can download, print or email• Check the abstract and authors
How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly
• Check the keywords• Check its Topic Prominence and see the momentum of the topics globally. The more it approaches to 100, the
more momentum topics have. • Click the topics, and analyze keywords more in a detail: see related documents, top authors and other related
key words. You can always use this analysis for your own papers
A topic is a collection of documents with a common intellectual interest. This Topic Prominence combines 3 metrics to indicate the momentum of a topic, Citation count, Views count and CiteScore
How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly
• When you scroll down, you will find funding details if available
How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly
• Find the details of the document, content type, its DOI, ISSN and source detail• Check references used in this document, you can always export them to reference management systems such
as Mendeley
How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly
Once clicked in one of the documents, you will get more details about it:
• Citations in Scopus• Its Field-weighted citation impact• See all documents that cite the selected article
FWCI indicates how well the paper is doing in comparison to others in the same field. The
numerator contains the number of citations and the denominator contains the expected citation
count, typical for an average paper in the field. World average is 1.00.
How to Analyse results?
Scopus helps you visualize your search results. Click to see an analysis of your results, showing the number of documents broken down by various criteria, including year, source, author, affiliation, and so on. Let’s see how to benefit from ‘Analyze search results’ tool
Why Analysis Tool is important?
1. Evaluate any subject area : See top author, top country, top affiliation in the world
2. Easily determine possible collaborators and partnerships
3. See the publication trend year by year, is this topic getting popular in the world?
4. See top funding institutions in that subject
How to utilize results page? – Analysis Tool
• Once clicked, you will be able to evaluate all of the results in a detailed way. Search metrics are organized by the following: Year, Source, Author, Affiliation, Country, Document type and Subject area and Funding Institution. Scroll down and check each of them
• See the graphical displays and the list of the results, click the list to see the underlying data• Once you decide what to use, export, print or email the results
How to utilize results page? – Analysis Tool
AUTHOR SEARCH
Why author profiles are necessary?
Collaboration
Visibility
Networking
Author profiles allow you to increase;Having a
researcher
profile online
is critical to
showcase
your
research
Scopus allows you have your own profile!
THE PREMIER SOURCE OF PROFILES :
Article
70+ millionrecords from journals,
books and book
series, conference
proceedings and
trade publications
Author
13 + million author profiles
Affiliation
70.000+ main affiliation
profiles
Scopus Data Model
The data that goes into Scopus follows the
model that articles are written by authors who
are affiliated with institutions.
This relational data model means that Scopus
can tell you who is researching what in global
literature and where they are doing it with
higher accuracy than anyone else.
Scopus creates profiles automatically. If
an author has at least 2 documents
indexed in Scopus, profile is created
automatically!
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
1. Click Author
2. Type the last and first name of the author
3. You can add affiliation information as well
4. If you know author’s ORCID, you directly search by ORCID
What is ORCID?
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Many researchers have names that too closely resemble each other. In order to prevent name ambiguity, we strongly
recommend researchers to have ORCID, since Scopus Author profile and ORCID complement each other.
Dr. James Smith
46533489
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
Dr. Smith
Dr. J. Smith
Dr. James Smith
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
1. Once you make the search, Use filters to narrow your search, such as subject area, country and
affiliation and refine your results if needed
2. Hover over the author’s name and view last title, document count, H-index, affiliation and country.
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
1. Sort your results on document count, name, affiliation etc
2. See all documents of selected author, check his/her citation overview, and request to merge profiles if
there are more than one profile for an author
3. Click on the author’s name to see the author profile.
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
1. Once you click the author name, Find the basic information about the author; name formats, main
subject areas and document and citation trends
2. Get citation alerts from author’s documents or add the ORCID
3. If there is missing or misleading information in the profile, request author detail corrections and update
by following the steps OR directly contact to your librarian!
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS5 tabs further evaluate documents, cited by documents, co-authors, author history and Topics:
Documents and cited by documents:
• Export all document list to CSV file or Reference Management Systems as Mendeley,
• Save all of them to your list to work on them later
• Set document alerts; this will notify you by email in case of any citation
• Sort documents on Cited by, date, relevance, author name and source title etc. are the options
• Check abstract, related documents and click full text to see if you have access to full text article
• Once you click a document, you will get all of the details about it as we did in Document Search
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
5 tabs further evaluate documents, cited by documents, co-authors and author history and Topics
Co-authors and author history:
• See all co-authors together with their document information by clicking Co-authors link
• Author history provides you all of the publications detail of the author in Scopus; sourced published in
and institutions the author has been affiliated so far
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
5 tabs further evaluate documents, cited by documents, co-authors and author history and Topics
Topics:
• SciVal topics will cluster author’s documents by keywords, you can evaluate each topic by their
momentum, FWCI etc
• Once you click one of the topics, you will see top cited documents, top authors and key phrases
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AUTHOR PROFILE LOOKS
1. Check the basic metrics of the author; h-index, document and citation count in Scopus2. Analyze author output directs you to the analysis tool; which allows you to measure the impact of any
researcher based on different metrics such as documents, subject areas, and h-index etc
DISCOVER ANALYSIS TOOL
1. Once clicked ‘analyze author output’, you will be able to evaluate all of the results in a detailed way. Search metrics are organized by the following: Documents (by source, type, year and subject area), h-index, citations, and co-authors.
2. See the graphical displays and the list of the results, click the list to see the underlying data3. Once you decide what to use, export, print or email the results
DISCOVER ANALYSIS TOOL
1. Once you scroll down, you will get extra details, such as H-index, citation and co-authors, you can click all to see additional detailed data
2. You can click other co-authors as well to evaluate their profile similarly
DISCOVER ANALYSIS TOOL
1. Evaluate the H-index of the author, Scopus is the trustworthy source to check the H-index, as it is sourced from quality peer-review content.
2. You can always exclude self-citations or citations from books from the links – ONE OF THE MAIN DIFFERENCES FROM GOOGLE SCHOLAR!
AFFILIATION SEARCH
Why Affiliation profiles are necessary?
Collaboration
Visibility
Increase University Rankings
Affiliation profiles allow you to increase;Having a
correct
affiliation profile
in Scopus is
critical to
showcase your
research as an
institution
Scopus allows you have your own profile as an institution!
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
1. Click Affiliation
2. Type affiliation name – Scopus automatically offers you best matches
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
1. Narrow your search, by using filters on the left and refine your results if needed
2. Hover over the affiliation’s name and Documents for this affiliation, and city and country information will
appear.
3. Sort your results on document count, name, city, country etc
4. Click on the affiliation’s name to see the profile
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
1. Find the basic information about the affiliation; address, the affiliation number, name variations,
document and author count and related patent results – you can click on them as well to see the
underlying data
2. Click the document account and analyze documents if you have any specific need OR click analyze
results and evaluate institution’s performance more in a detail!
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
4 tabs is available: subject area, affiliation hierarchy (if available), collaborating affiliations and
documents by source.
Subject area: Check the top subject areas of the institution, see the graphical display or click directly.
You can export, print and email the view.
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
4 tabs is available: subject area, affiliation hierarchy (if available), collaborating affiliations and
documents by source.
Affiliation hierarchy: Available only if the institution has different colleagues / faculties differentiated in
Scopus. You can check the documents that belong to each sub-affiliation.
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
4 tabs is available: subject area, affiliation hierarchy (if available), collaborating affiliations and
documents by source.
Collaborating Affiliations: Check the collaborating affiliations of the institution. Click their profile or
documents to see the details
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS
4 tabs is available: subject area, affiliation hierarchy (if available), collaborating affiliations and
documents by source.
Documents by Source: Check the sources that the affiliation has been published so far. Click the
source or the documents to see the details.
SOURCE PROFILES
AND FINDING SOURCES
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW SOURCE PROFILES LOOKS
1. Once click ‘Source’ tab, all content will be available to you, you can find any source in Scopus by typing
subject area, name or Publisher name
2. You can use filters to utilize your results. Percentile filter help you filter journals based on quartiles calculated by
CiteScore
3. You can download the Scopus source list to excel file
4. Hover over journals and check their document, citation count, percentiles, CiteScore, SNIP, SJR, publisher
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW SOURCE PROFILES LOOKS1. Once click the journal, check its basic information; Scopus coverage years, ISSN / E-ISSN and subject area
2. Check all documents of the journal in Scopus or set alerts to get notifications when new content is published
3. See its metrics, CiteScore, SJR and SNIP in the right
4. Find detailed evaluation of CiteScore, see how it is calculated; click documents and citations to see the underlying data.
5. CiteScore is an annual metric, for more current figures, check CiteScoreTracker
6. Check Compare Sources link in next slide:
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW SOURCE PROFILES LOOKS1. Compare sources tool allows you to compare journals based on different metrics and find the best match
2. Once clicked, you can select different journals in terms of subject area, ISSN and publisher name
3. You can select up to 10 journals in one time and check their performance based on CiteScore, SJR, SNIP,
Citations, Document, % of not cited and %reviews.
4. Remember to check all metrics before making any decision
5. You can always print, email and export these views
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW SOURCE PROFILES LOOKS1. Compare sources tool allows you to compare journals based on different metrics and find the best match
2. Once clicked, you can select different journals in terms of subject area, ISSN and publisher name
3. You can select up to 10 journals in one time and check their performance based on CiteScore, SJR, SNIP,
Citations, Document, % of not cited and %reviews.
4. Remember to check all metrics before making any decision
5. You can always print, email and export these views
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