Scopus training

• time: 09:00-12:00
• location: burapha library
• Note: http://www.lib.buu.ac.th/webnew2/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SCOPUS2014_Feb.pdf

Intro product

• Elsevier
• Scopus
• etc.

research process I

• research theory
• Situation,
• Research topic
• Research method
• Data
• Conclusion

research process II

• Ident. Problem
• Statement
• Ouline
• Form hypothesis
• etc.

journal research and publishing workflow

• Experiment and conduct research
• Pear review
• Finding
• Build fame
• Assess impact

Or

• Prepublication
• Production and publication
• Dissemination and use

Session outline

• What?
• New release and update
• Personalize scopus
• Search, support
• Production, publication and access the impact
• What else scopus can do?
• Going mobile
• Scopus supporting site and live chat!!

Scopus, Dayton, Ohio, home of scopus

a researcher read more than 300 articles per year

• 3.7 search
• 5.6 reading perweek
• 6 articles read per week

What are they looking for?

• Students search info, relevant info, quick overview of the subject area
• researcher compare to other, visibility, being cited, collaborate for more successful info
• librarian give patron access, …

Scopus accelerate the literature research process

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What is scopus

contains peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources more than 21000 title 50 millions records features and functionality designed to support and improve researchers’ workflow

broads source for research answers

21000 active titles 20000 pee reviewd journals 390 trade journals 370 book series 248 conference series

articles in press from more than 38 50 titles 40 languages covered

Subject areas

Physical science Health Social Life sciences

You can

• Author profiling
• Understand research trends
• Journal to publish
• Collaborate with potential researchers
• Fast route to full-text article

researchers need subscription fee to access full text

Assistance in search

• search by tag
• refine
• link to full-text and other library resources
• export to mendeley, refworks, endnote, zotero
• feed to email alert, rss, html feeds (sent feeds are only in link format, not full text)

Discover

• related doc by shared ref, authors and/or keywords
• identify and match an organization with its research output using affiliation identifier
• identify collaborators or subject experts with author identifier
• clarify your identity through integration with ORCID
• take advantage of interoperability with sciencedirect, reaxys and engineering village

(some people have name conflict, each author need to carry an author identifier)

Analyse

• track citation over time
• view h-index for specific authors
• assess trends in search results with Analyze Results
• analyze an author’s publishing output with Author Evaluator
• Gain insight into journal performance with Journal Analyzer and alternative journal impact merics SNIP and SJR

NEWS RELEASE & UPDATE

2012

• internet browser support ie, firefox, ie 7-8, no ie6, chrome, safari

august 2013

1. book r book chapter document type
2. Sources alert

august 2013

sciverse hub is retiring Scirus is retired new UI

PERSONALIZE SCOPUS

advantage of registration

• search
  • save search
  • search history
• advanced function
• alert
• application

SEARCH CONTENT AND SUPPORT TOOLS

Searching citations and indexes

• document
• author
• affiliate
• advanced search (using boolean connectors)
• add more search field

Result list

• search results,
• search withing and refine results
• sorting options
• search alert (save and rss feed)
• export citation information (-> endnote, medeley)
• batch download and view citation
• display article pages

Alert in Scopus

• frequency,
• Search TITLE-ABS-KEY
• Name of alert
• E-mail address(es)
• Frequency on
• E-mail format HTML Email Format HTML TEXT Email Format Text
• Status active, inactive

document download

Need java (QUOSA Inc.)

Export reference list, bibliography

easier export ot medeley (feb, 2014)

View citation overview

Reviewing documents

• document titles and author information
• citation information and alert
• related articles
• abstract and references

Reseach Trend and Experts by Analyze Results

• Compare reputation of authors, fields, topics, area, journal, year,
• Export result csv file

Metric for Journal and author evaluation

( Not in Scopus )

• Impact factor

( In Scopus )

• Source-Normaized Impact per Paper (SNIP
• Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)
• H-Index

Why metrics?

Impact factor : total citations in 2011 from all items published in journal in 2009 and 2010 no. of only articles published in 2009 and 2010 = impact factor

Subject field differences

Which journal is best?

• Nature material
• Cell
• Circulation
• Enterprise information systems
• etc

SJR (available in 2009)

SCImago Journal Rank - SJR (Power of Prestige)

• developed by SCImago - Research Group, university of Granada
• Main feature is prestige metric - similar to Google PageRank
• Secondary feature: difference citation behaviour addressed

• life science: high impact, lot of citations .. one citation = low value
• art and humanities: Low impact, few of citations .. one citation = high value

• citations are weighted depending on the status of the source they come from
• share a journal’s prestige equally

SNIP (2009)

Source-normalized impact per paper - SNIP (balancing the scales)

• developed by Henk Moed, CWTS, University of Leiden
• Main feature: contextual citation impact
  • part 1
  • part 2

Advantage of SNIP and SJR

PROs

• transparency
• metrics based on scopus.com
• subject field normalization
• 3-years citation window
• manipulation-resistant
• breadth of coverage

CONS:

• more complex methodology for calculation
• the range that SJR and SNIP

Using SNIP and SJR, Not impact factor … When?

• Journals without impact factors
• subject field differences may affect ranking and not only quality
• compare basic and applied journal

Find quality journal

• Browse source
• Search title
• View ranking based on SJR and SNIP

Active thailand journal titles in scopus

• ChiengMai
• etc.

Journal Analyzer

• Choose journal
• View Ranking by year
• Compare
• Tabs: SJR, SNIP, Citations, Docs, Percent not cited
• View in graph or in table form
• Print

Find perfect journal for your article

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

• to check suitable journal for your paper
• Input title
• Input abstract
• Search
• sort by: title, impact factor, open acces, editorial times, acceptance, production times
• follow description of the journal : check guidline, format, process, timeframe, contact, ethics, etc.

h-index in Scopus

• 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, UC, San Diego
• The h-index is the highest number of papers a scientist has that have at least that number of citations. (Nature 2005)

Why the h-index

Traditional

• Number of publications per year - salami publication
• average / total citation per paper - may penalize productivity

Hirsch index (h-index)

source: wikipedia: H-Index

Ex. 1242 documents written after 1995 by Langer Roberts S.

• Verify document vs. citation

Author search

• search author
• author detail
• distribution of subject area

Affiliate search

• rank
• etc.

What else scopus can do?

• advanced search
  • Query syntax
• broader coverage
• promote journal and articles
  • show affilate count
• world leading standard
  • decision making
  • ranking
• linking to ORCID (Open Researcher and Conributor ID): verify researchers’ id to avoid future conflict

Going mobile

• iphone app, and android
• free access to registered users
  • search
  • share
  • save
  • setup alert

Support

• Support
• Training
• Live Chat!