SCOPUS CONTENT COVERAGE, TITLE EVALUATION, AND USE IN ASSESSMENT

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1 SCOP CONTENT COVERAGE, TITLE EVALUATION, AND E IN ASSESSMENT Dr. Wim Meester Senior Product Manager Scopus Elizabeth Dyas Senior Product Marketing Manager Scopus Rome, January 20, 2014

2 Agenda Scopus breadth of content coverage Coverage of Italian content in Scopus Content selection process Citation metrics Facilitation of research assessment at all levels Conclusion and questions

3 The broadest source for research answers 52.7M records from 21,750 serial titles and 18,620 books 21.2M pre 1996 records 31.5M post 1995 records Content from > 5,000 publishers Articles in Press from > 3,750 titles Titles from 105 different countries in all geographical areas 40 local languages covered Physical Sciences 6,600 Health Sciences 6,300 Social Sciences 6,350 Life Sciences 4,050 JOURNALS 20,698 peer-reviewed journals 240 trade journals - Full metadata, abstracts and cited references (pre-1996) - >2,800 fully Open Access titles - Going back to Funding data from acknowledgements CONFERENCES 17k events 5.5M records (10%) Conf. expansion: 1,000 conferences 6,000 conf. events 400k conf. papers 5M citations Mainly Engineering and Physical Sciences BOOKS 389 book series - 925K items 18,620 books - 223K items Books expansion: 75K books by Back to Focus on Social Sciences and A&H PATENTS 24M patents from 5 major patent offices

4 Journal metrics for all journals 11K out of 20K journals have a Journal Impact Factor SNIP and SJR are accurate, transparent journal metrics and publically available via All 20K journals have a Source-normalized impact per paper (SNIP) measuring contextual citation impact by weighting citations per subject field - Peer-reviewed papers only - Field s frequency and immediacy of citation - Database coverage - Journal s scope and focus - Measured relative to database median raw impact per paper (RIP) Citation potential in its subject field All 20K journals have a SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are equal - Citations are weighted depending on where they come from - A journal s prestige is shared equally between its citations Life Sciences journal High impact, lots of citations One citation = low value Arts & Humanities journal Low impact, few on citations One citation = high value

5 Coverage of Italian content Documents with Italian country affiliation ,144 83,588 80,172 83,908 77, active journals from Italy in Scopus. 75 in Physical Sciences 161 in Health Sciences 59 in Life Sciences 144 in Social Sciences Proportion of non-english languages in 1,475 A&H journals in Scopus (199 titles in Italian): Social Sciences Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences 15%

6 Transparent title evaluation process by independent Content Selection & Advisory Board Publisher or Editor Suggest title Review titles and make decision Check Min. criteria Enrich titles CSAB External reviewer Focus on quality through selection by independent CSAB: No dilution of results by irrelevant or low quality content Assurance that titles selected by Scopus meet the highest (ethical) standards Provide accurate and relevant search results for users

7 Transparent selection criteria All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review: Peer-review English abstracts Regular publication References in Roman script Publication ethics statement Eligible titles are reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a combination of 14 quantitative and qualitative selection criteria: Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability Convincing editorial concept/policy Type of peer-review Diversity geographic distribution of editors Diversity geographic distribution of authors Academic contribution to the field Clarity of abstracts Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope Readability of articles Citedness of journal articles in Scopus Editor standing No delay in publication schedule Content available online English-language journal home page Quality of home page Info: Questions: titlesuggestion@scopus.com

8 United Kingdom United States Italy Russia Romania India Brazil South Korea Spain Poland Czech Republic Netherlands Colombia Germany China France Slovakia Egypt Switzerland Australia Scopus title review results and resources In total 3,782 titles reviewed (2011 Nov 2013) of which 1,780 (47%) accepted for Scopus 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Titles reviewed top 20 countries (2013 Jan-Oct): Accepted Rejected As a primary publisher and information aggregator, Elsevier understands the unique needs of Authors, Editors and Publishers and provides resources to support the research community: Advice from CSAB and FAQs available on Scopus info site Publication ethics resources via Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Translation, editing and publishing services Elsevier.com Editors section (for ELS editors but applicable to all) Freely available journal metrics to compare & assess journal performance Trends in research via Research Trends newsletter (see specific issue on A&H)

9 Resources for Authors to assess themselves and ensure up-to-date public view All Authors have a Scopus Author ID which captures output indexed in Scopus. Scopus Author Feedback Wizard allows Authors to submit changes to his/her profile data changes, merges or splits, citation corrections, content additions. Scopus Author Services team focuses solely on the needs of Authors as related to profiles in Scopus. Authors can use Scopus APIs to feature Scopus data (e.g. citation metrics) on their websites. ORCID Mission ORCID aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers. ORCIDs: 495K and growing # of distinct Docs uploaded: 1.4M Also integrated into Author Profiles and via Elsevier Editorial System.

10 Reputable Publishers use Scopus data to provide key assessment metrics More than 5,000 publishers are indexed in Scopus. Many use Scopus data and APIs to present journal, article and citation information to the researcher community.

11 Leading research institutes and research organizations use Scopus and Scopus data 12% 88% Scopus Non-Scopus Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University University of Cambridge UK University College London UK Imperial College London UK University of Oxford UK Stanford University Yale University University of Chicago California Institute of Technology Princeton University ETH Zurich CH University of Pennsylvania Columbia University Cornell University Johns Hopkins University University of Edinburgh UK University of Toronto CA Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne CH King s College London UK Country Australian Research Council

12 Summary Scopus has broad coverage providing the most accurate view of the global research landscape. Scopus has a transparent content selection process executed by the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board. Scopus and Scopus data is being used by researchers, publishers and leading institutions to inform decisions about research output and research assessment. Scopus is flexible and we work with you and the research community to provide customized solutions for your research assessment needs.

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14 Coverage across engineering subject areas: completeness of coverage, coverage of Engineering Village, coverage pre-1996; coverage non-english material;