AuthorWorkshop Scopus Sept2014

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USING SCOPUS AS A RESEARCH TOOL

Solution Consultant (e-platform and content)

South East Asia
Elise Shen (e.shen@elsevier.com)

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What content does Scopus include?

53.3M records from 21,912 serial titles and 30,000 books
21.3M pre 1996 records | 32.0M 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.


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What content does Scopus include?

Physical
Sciences
6,600

Health
Sciences
6,300
Social
Sciences
6,350

Life
Sciences
4,050

JOURNALS

CONFERENCES

BOOKS

PATENTS

20,874 peer-reviewed journals
367 trade journals

17k events
5.5M records (10%)

421 book series
- 28K Volumes

- 925K items

24M patents
from 5 major
patent offices

- Full metadata, abstracts and
cited references (pre-1996)
- >2,800 fully Open Access titles
- Going back to 1823
- Funding data from
acknowledgements

Conf. expansion:
1,000 conferences
6,000 conf. events
400k conf. papers
5M citations
Mainly Engineering
and Physical

Sciences

29,917 books
- 311K items
Books expansion:
75K books by 2015
- Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H

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Scopus covers different source types for a reason

JOURNALS
• Timely
• Peer-reviewed
(formal research)

All subject fields, but
typical fields with high
ratio of journal
publication: chemical,
biological, health sciences
etc.

CONFERENCES

BOOKS

• Preliminary research
(can be a bit less
formal)
• Newer ideas

• Thorough analysis of
a specific topic

Mainly of importance in

Computer Science and
Engineering-related
subject fields

Mainly of importance in
Social Sciences and the
Arts & Humanities

Different source types are added to ensure
that coverage, discoverability, profiles and
impact measurement for research in all
subject fields is accounted for in Scopus.

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Scopus is designed to accelerate the literature research process

1) What’s the best
journal for my
research?

5) Who else is
working on this in
my country or
elsewhere in the
world?

20,500
journals

5,000
publishers

360

book
series

2) Related
interdisciplinary,
global, research?

Global
coverage
All
disciplines

4) What’s the trend
- is this a growing
or declining field?

3) Who is citing my
work?

69% agree that Scopus saves them time in the research process


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Articles Published in Indonesia
Articles published

Cited and Un-cited Documents

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International Collaboration

Citations and Self-Citations


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Research Performance Indonesia

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How can Scopus assist you with your research?

• Facilitates major tasks researchers have






Searching citations & indexes
Browsing & searching sources
Viewing & storing articles
Search History
Documents Download

• Stay up-to-date
• Alerts
• RSS

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Searching Citations & Indexes
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Document Search

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Affiliation Search

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Analyze Journals

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Author Search

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Browse Sources

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Add More Search Fields

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Reviewing Search Results

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Search Results
Refine Results
(Limit or Exclude)
Make selection to activate
the button

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Sorting Options
Search Alert
(Save & RSS Feed)

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Batch Download of PDFs
Make selection to activate
the button

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Export Citations Information
Make selection to activate
the button

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Display Article Pages
(Abstracts & References)

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Author Information

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Citation Information & Alert

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Related Articles

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Documents Download

Batch Download and Automatic Naming
Java Required

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Citation Overview

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View Documents Citation
Overview & Documents h Index

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Overview Options (Sorting &
Exclude Author Self Citation)

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Documents h Index

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Documents Citation Overview

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Export & Print

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Browsing & Sources
Searching
Browsing & Searching

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Sources

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Browse Sources
(by Subject or Alphabetical)

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SJR & SNIP
(updated annually in October )

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Search Sources

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Display Journal Page

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Journal Homepage
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Journal Information

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Follow this source

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Journal Metrics (SJR & SNIP)

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Documents List by Publication
Years

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Find Prolific Authors

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Find Prolific Authors

Prolific
authors

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Select journal to submit to for your research area
Journals which publish
most papers in “renewable
energy” published by
authors from Indonesia
Compare Journals’
Performance

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Compare Journals and View SJR and SNIP Data

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Author Search

Display Author’s Details

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Author Details

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Visualize Author’s Research &
Performance

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Export all author’s publication
(Mendeley & other Reference
Manager)

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Author’s Citation Alert

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Author’s h Index

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Author’s Document Alert

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Add to ORCID

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Author profile corrections
• Author profile corrections (split and or merges of profiles
only) occur via the Author feedback wizard:
• http://www.scopusfeedback.com/

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Summary

Using Scopus as a Researcher you can:
• Author profiling – Total number of publications and
citations
• Understand a research trends
• Which journal to publish my paper
• Who can I collaborate with
• Fast Route to full-text articles
Questions?

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After this workshop..

Follow up email

Presentation slides
(Soft copies)

Survey
(let us know what was
done well!)

Certificate of
Attendance
(soft copy)

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