scopus ph d_oct_2010
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Introduction to
Martin Snelling
October 2010
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Aims
• At the end of the session, you should be able to;– Carry out searches on Scopus, using Author
and keywords, and combinations– Refine research results– Export results to Endnote– Carry out a citation search– Display the H-index for an author
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Programme
• Presentation
• Questions
• Practical exercises
• Evaluation
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Facts and Figures
• Scopus has been available since 1996
• Earliest records date back to 1823
• 18,000+ journal titles indexed
• 38,000,000+ records (Oct 2009)
• 1,000 journal titles added p.a.
• Articles-in-press from 3,000 journals
• Social Science collection is growing
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Coverage
• 2500 journals back to vol 1, iss 1• 19 million records pre-1996• Complete archives from;
– Springer/Kluwer– American Physical Society– American Institute of Physics– Institute of Physics– Royal Soc of Chemistry– Nature, Science, Lancet – All Elsevier publications
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Access
• Through the library database pages
• Off-campus (needs central username/password)
• VPN
• Mobile phone app
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Features • Basic and advanced search mode• Author search• Citation searching• Patent information• Simultaneous Web search (SCIRUS)• Full text document download manager• Alerting service• On line tutorials• Continuous improvement
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Basic Search screen
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Extra search fields
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Results screen
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Results screen
Results in tabs
Results in tabs
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Results screen
Most common
titles
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Results screen
Most prolific authors
Most prolific authors
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Advanced Search option
• Allows for much more precise searching
• Boolean logic – And, Or, Not
• Greater number of search terms can be used
• Database will offer suggestions as you type
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Advanced search screen
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Author search
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Author search - results
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Author information
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Individual research performance
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H Index
• Gives a rough evaluation of an author’s research output
• Only papers published since 1996 count
• Can be represented graphically
• Overview of author’s publication history
• Overview of citation activity over time
• New tool is the “author evaluator”
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H Index Graph
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Articles published over time
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Citations over time
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Citation tracking
• Track articles that have been cited elsewhere– Author tracking– Journal tracking
• Can search for all articles cited in a paper• Search for all papers citing a particular
article• Search for all articles cited by an author
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Scopus Journal Analyzer
• Select any ten journals in a subject area
• Identify which are the most influential
• Get the best visibility for your work
• Information updated every two months
• http://info.scopus.com/News/content/latest
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Download Manager
• Helps retrieve full-text articles from results
• Saves PDF of text to your computer
• Can manage up to 50 documents at a time
• Gives each PDF a meaningful file name (based on article title)
• Operates from Results screen
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Downloading Full text
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Saving PDFs of Full text
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Downloading to Bibliographic software
• Scopus records can be instantly downloaded to…
• Endnote/EndnoteWeb
• Reference manager
• Refworks
• MS Excel, MS Access
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Recap
• Best coverage for any database – not just Science & technology
• 2500 journals indexed to vol 1, iss 1• Best coverage for European, Far east• Three sets of results for each search• Citation analysis/research performance• Downloads to bibliographic software• Likely to be chosen for the Research Excellence
Framework
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Questions?