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HOW TO GET THE BEST BENEFIT

OUT OF SCOPUS?

Ozge Sertdemir- Customer Consultant for Iran, Gulf and Central Asia

2019

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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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05.11.2019

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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05.11.2019

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!

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Why use Scopus not just Google it?

05.11.2019

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

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HOW CAN SCOPUS

HELP YOU ACHIEVE

THESE GOALS?

05.11.2019

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Brief Refreshment on Scopus

05.11.2019

+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

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Publisher Coverage

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Subject Coverage

05.11.2019

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

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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

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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

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Content Selection in

Scopus

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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

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Maintaining high-quality: Scopus rigorous re-evaluation process and criteria

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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

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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

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Research Metrics in

Scopus

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WHY USE RESEARCH METRICS?

05.11.2019

Entities to which

metrics apply:It is critical to use right metrics

for right entities, and not missing

them with each other!

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GOLDEN RULE

05.11.2019

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

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METRICS IN SCOPUS

05.11.2019

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

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Journal Level Metrics in Scopus

05.11.2019www.journalmetrics.com

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

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Journal Level Metrics in Scopus

05.11.2019www.journalmetrics.com

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.

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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.

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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:

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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!

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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 !

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Tips on Using Scopus most effectively

05.11.2019

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.

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DOCUMENT SEARCH

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How to do Document Search on Scopus?

05.11.2019

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.

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What Scopus search does automatically?

05.11.2019

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)

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Phrases and separate words

05.11.2019

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.

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More Tips

05.11.2019

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.

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More Tips

05.11.2019

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.

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More Tips

05.11.2019

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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How to utilize results page? – Reading Metrics Correctly

• When you scroll down, you will find funding details if available

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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How to utilize results page? – Analysis Tool

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AUTHOR SEARCH

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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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AFFILIATION SEARCH

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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!

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TAKE A LOOK AT HOW AFFILIATION PROFILE LOOKS

1. Click Affiliation

2. Type affiliation name – Scopus automatically offers you best matches

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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SOURCE PROFILES

AND FINDING SOURCES

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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

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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:

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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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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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