“It’s not about searchingit’s all about finding”

Gabriel YeoTraining Consultant

Chulalongkorn University8th June 2006

Training ObjectivesContent and coverage of ScopusLearn about managing searches

Saved searches, E-mail alerts

Learn about Scopus’ personalisation featuresMy List, Alert services

Introduction and details to Citation Tracker ToolAn overview of the Author IdentifierGain online experience from hands-on Scopus practice

Phylloscopus Collybita

What is Scopus?One single starting point for research

Search and navigation tool across scientific literatureAccesses a wide range of resources, but no duplication

Peer-reviewed literaturejournals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and increasingly other types of content

The scientific Webincluding scientists’ homepages, patent information, pre-print servers, Open Access resources

Covers all disciplines within science and social scienceEnables citation linking between different fields of studyReveals new connections in the literature

Focused Focused web web

informationinformation

AcademicAcademiclibrarylibrary

sourcessources

14,000 titles14,000 titles

4,000 4,000 publisherspublishers

STM &STM &Social Social

sciencessciencesWorldWorld’’ssLargestLargest

AbstractsAbstractsDatabase Database

(27m)(27m)

What is Scopus?

Daily updates

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CoverageChemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering

4,500 titlesLife and Health Sciences

5,900 titles (100% MEDLINE coverage)

Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics2,700 titles

Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences2,500 titles

General Sciences50 titles

Journals may be indexed in one or more subject areasExplains why total journal number is higher than 14,200

Scopus Coverage on Thailand Affiliations

No of articles found in affiliation with Thailand in Top 160 Journals is 24,158, of which 7, 223 of them cannot be found in WoS.Inclusion of 6 Thailand Journals with 12,527 articles, which are all not found in WoS .

Scopus Coverage on Thailand Affiliations

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

International Energy Journal

International Agricultural Engineering Journal

Geotechnical Engineering

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Getting StartedHome Page Features:

3 x Search FormsBrowse SourcesMy AlertsMy ListMy ProfileLink to content on Scopus info site and Scopus Labs

http://www.scopus.com

Register / Login

Benefits of Register / Login

Alert ServicesSaved SearchesMy List

Search FunctionalitySearch SyntaxBasic SearchAdvanced SearchRefine ResultsSearch HistorySearch ResultsNavigation, including Links

Search Syntax (1)

Phrase Searching:“oyster toadfish” = exact phraseoyster toadfish = oyster AND toadfish

Proximity Searching:word order not specified W/nn

pain W/5 morphineword order specified PRE/nn

neonatal PRE/3 screening

Search Syntax (2)

Wildcards (truncation):variable number of characters *

sul*ur = sulfur, sulphurcat* = cat, cats, catatonic, catastrophe, etc.

fixed number of characters ?wom?n = woman, womencatheter? = catheter, catheters

(but not catheterization)

Basic Search

Enter one or more search terms over two search boxes

Restrict search by field, date, subject area and/or document type

“corporate governance”

Advanced Search

Enter a command line search using Boolean operators, field labels, wildcards, etc.

Search Syntax (3)

Boolean Operators: AND • OR • AND NOTSearch Field Qualification:

FieldName (SearchTerm)title (“prion disease”)= single field searchtitle-abs-key (koala) = compound field searchWhen no field name is specified, all searchable fields are assumed

Refine Results

Refine Results Sort

Sort refine results lists alphabetically

Click Less… to contract refine results list

Results Page

Sort records by date, relevance, authors, source title or cited by

Link to find records of specific author

Search Within Results

Use query box at bottom of results pageCondensed version of advanced search query

Enter terms to refine original search querySearches all fields of the databaseUse command search syntax to specify search fields

FieldName (SearchTerm)Perform an unlimited number of search refinementsAll refinements performed appear in Search History

Search History

#1 and #2

Records – Key FeaturesAbstract + Refs

abstract, article title, author namesPlus:

References and Cited By’sRelated Documents linksAn extended format display

language of publication, author keywords, indexed keywords

Options to print, export, e-mail or add records to a personal listLinks to external full text collections

Abstract Page

Links may include:- View at Publisher- Full Text- Customised links

Abstract Page (cont’d)

Link to:- Record for eachreference

- Records citingeach reference

- Relateddocuments

Set-up Document Citation alert

Add to ListUse button on results page, abstract page or Cited By pageStores selected records for later use

Session-based temporary list unless savedClicking My List button displays temporary list

Image-based Full-text LinkingFull text available in only one click from:

Results pageAbstract pageReferences

Two types:Standard links (Web)

Entitled links (Library)

Standard Links (Web)

CrossRef titles plus 813 non-CrossRef titlesAppears on Results page, Abstract page and in cited references on Abstract page

Dissertations, Patents, Standards and documents with more than 10 citationsAppears in cited references on Abstract page

Entitled Links (Library)

Via library’s local linking resolverSFXLinkFinderPlus

Appears on Results page, Abstract page and in cited references on Abstract page

Other Searching and BrowsingQuick SearchCited ByMy ListWeb ResultsPatents ResultsCombined ResultsSources

Quick Search

Appears on every page except home pageFixed field search

titles, abstracts, author keywords, index keywords, authorsSearch terms are ANDed

Use quotation marks to search a phraseAll searches performed appear in Search History

Cited By …

View all citings an article has received from other articles

My List

View list of stored selected records for further action

BibliographyUse button on My List pageChoose from 4 output formats (MS Word, RTF, HTML, text) and 9 bibliographic styles

American Psychological Association (APA)Council of Biology Editors (CBE)ChicagoHarvard, including British standardMLANational Library of Medicine (NLM)TurabianUniform (Vancouver)

ResultsWeb Results

Scirus, the Web search engine for scientific information is integrated into Scopus

Patent ResultsUS Patent Office (USPTO)European Patent Office (EPO)World intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)Japanese Patent Office (JPO)

Combined Results

Sources

Browse list of sources by subject or by title

Managing Searches and AlertsSaved SearchesAlertsSaved Lists

My Profile

Manage all aspects of personal set-up

Saved SearchesSaving a search:

Perform a searchFrom the Results Page, click Save link

Recalling saved search:From My Profile page, click Saved Searches linkChoose to view All results or New only

Search AlertsPerform a searchFrom the Results Page, click Save as Alert linkName the alert, verify the email address and choose frequency and e-mail format before clicking Submit button

Search Alerts: RSS

Be alerted with Really Simple Syndication (RSS)Perform search, click on RSSName RSS feedSubscribe to RSS feed

Document Citation AlertsPerform a searchClick Abstract + Refs button of article to trackFrom the Abstract Page, click Alert Me linkName the alert, verify the email address and choose frequency and e-mail format before clicking Submit button

My Alerts

Manage all aspects of e-mail alerts

Saved ListsClick My List button to view records stored in session-based temporary listClick Save This List link to permanently store individual or all records in either a new list or add to an existing list

My Saved Lists

Manage all aspects of saved lists

What is the Citation Tracker?Citation Tracker is a feature within Scopus

Released on 15 December 2005Officially launched in January 2006

Enables users to track and evaluate research performance

For evaluation purposesFor navigation purposes

How is it used?User feedback shows that the main tasks are:

Evaluating a specific authorEvaluating a group of authorsEvaluating a specific articleEvaluating a group of articles, or a journal volume/issueIdentifying hot topics in a new subject areaIdentifying cross-disciplinary impact, ie: what subjects are being cited by other subjectsIdentifying who or what is hot or notFinding related articles to expand your research

Identify area of interest

Select results to add to My List

Create overview from My List

At-a-glance record information

Link to forward citations

Refine forward citations

Review specific article in specific year

Link to specific forward citations

Change time period to analyze

Change number of citations viewed

Export information

File download information

Save option

Excel export

Print information

References list to print

Save list for regular checks

Practice ExercisesCreate a list of 20 most highly cited publications from Chulalongkorn UniversityCreate a bibliography list for the above papers using APA styleConduct citation analysis on the selected papers

Author Identifier: Why?Author searching in A&I Databases is hampered by two serious problems:

How to distinguish between an author’s articles and those of another authors sharing the same name?How to group an author’s articles together when his or her name has been recorded in different ways? (e.g. Stambrook, P and Stambrook, P.J.)

These problems can result in retrieving incomplete or inaccurate results.

Solving the ProblemWe have approached solving these problems by using the

data available in the publication records such as…• Author Names

Affiliation Co-authors Self citationsSource titleSubject area

…and used this data to group articles that belong to a specific author.

So how does Author Identifier work?

Use the Author Search to find an author of interest

Author Search

preferred author name and the name variants

Author Search results

Author details

Author details: Results

Author details: Cited by

Author details: Cited by results

Author details: Citation Tracker

Author Identifier offers ‘exclude author self-citations’

Author details: Citation Tracker

Author details: Co-authors

view authors who have written with this author

Author details: Co-authors

browse co-authors of the original author

Author details: Feedback

authors can suggest amendments or updates to their own article information

Author details: Feedback

Practice ExercisesFind the documents published by Poovorawan, Yong View details of the authorCreate a citation overview of his publicationsCompare results with “Exclude Author Self Citations”Identify some co-authors

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