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Dr. Wim Meester

Head of Content Strategy– Scopus

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9350-3448

Access to Excellent Research:

Scopus in Lithuania

March 18, 2015

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Scientific output versus FWCI for the Baltic States

Estonia (2012)

Latvia (2012)

Link to interactive chart

Lithuania (2012)

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Today we will focus on Scopus but remember that the

Scopus database also underpins other solutions

SCOPUS DATABASE

APIs

Custom Data

Mendeley

METRICS

RESEARCH OUTCOMES

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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)

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What content does Scopus include?

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.

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

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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

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

Physical

Sciences

7,456

Health

Sciences

6,834

Social

Sciences

8,042

Life

Sciences

4,509

What content does Scopus include?

Source: Scopus title list (February 2015)

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Pre-1996 cited reference expansion

Coverage years

• Pre-1996, going back to 1970

Number of articles

• Around 8M+ articles will be re-processed to include cited references. In addition around 4M pre-1996 articles will be backfilled

Scope • Archives from major publishers

with available digital archives

H-index for senior researchers increases:

Already 2.3M pre-1996 documents loaded in Scopus

leading to additional 55M cited references:

2015 processing planning:

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10-Jul

22-Aug

14-Nov

20-Nov

4-Dec

30-Dec

23-Jan Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 4

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Comparison with nearest peer

Scopus 21,671

Web of Science 12,491

Scopus

7,410 (+78%)

WoS

4,188

Scopus

6,740 (+97%)

WoS

3,415

Scopus

4,436 (+50%)

WoS

2,954

Scopus

7,684 (+90%)

WoS

4,016

Physical Sciences Health Sciences Life Sciences Social Sciences

Core Collection

~12K titles

3,300 publishers

Updated weekly

~21K titles

>5,000 publishers

Updated daily

Source: Web of Science Real Facts, Web of Science title list and Scopus’ own data (April 2014)

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Estonia

Documents with Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia country affiliation 2010–2014:

Breadth of coverage in the Baltic States (documents)

Source: Scopus data February 2015

Lithuania Latvia

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67 active journals

from Baltic States

in Scopus Of which

30 Scopus-unique

English

92%

Lithuanian (14%)

Other

(1.5%)

Breadth of coverage in Baltic States (journals)

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Source: Scopus and WoS title list February 2015

Journals from Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia:

Estonia (Scopus)

Estonia (WoS)

Lithuania (Scopus)

Lithuania (WoS)

Latvia (Scopus)

Latvia (WoS)

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International

journals

79%

Lithuanian

journals

21%

Where do Lithuanian researchers

publish (2010 – 2014):

And in what language:

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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

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Peer-review English

abstracts

Regular

publication Roman script

references Pub. ethics

statement

Transparent Scopus selection criteria for serial content

Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability

1. All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review:

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:

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

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

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All Scopus journals have journal metrics measuring

citation performance

www.journalmetrics.com/

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”

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Scopus API to provide Scopus data as key citation

information on the publisher platform

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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

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Scopus is the Gold standard: more than 150 leading

research organizations rely on Scopus data

MD Anderson

Keio

University

Kiel

University

Gazi

University

Queen’s

University

Belfast

Ural Federal

University

CAPES Brazil

Nanyang

Technological

University

UK BIS

ERA 2014

UK REF

Nigerian

Government

ISTIC Peking

University

NRF -Korea

FCT Portugal

Danish BFI

Germany IFQ

Italy ANVUR

IISER

STINT Michigan Corporate

Relations Network

ReachNC

Russian Foundation

of Basic Research

TCI -

Thailand

Rankings:

NSF

European Commission & ERC

NCN Poland

Estonia Research Council

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International collaboration is rising

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International collaboration leads to increase of Field

Weighted Citation Index (Lithuania)

Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2013)

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Finding potential collaborators

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New: usage trends. Example for “Higgs Boson”

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