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Derrick Duncombe
Market Development Manager (Asia Pacific)
Scopus certification programme for Editors
(Level 3) – Pilot
10 November 2017
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2) Recap – Levels 1 & 2 contents
3) Q & A
1) Pilot survey results
Agenda
a) Questions for you
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(1) Pilot Survey Results
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(1a) Questions for you
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Questions
1. Would you be okay with an open-book format examination approach? Yes or No?
If not, what type would you like to see – Multiple Choice Questions? Open Ended
questions?
2. How many test questions should there be for Level 3? 5, 10 or 20 questions?
3. Should all questions be scenario based questions? Yes or No?
4. Would it be okay to show screenshots and asking you to arrange them in the proper
sequence?
5. Is there any particular topic that you would like to see tested (aside from the ones as per
the survey results)?
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(2) Recap – Levels 1 & 2 contents
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What is Scopus?
Scopus is the world’s largest Abstract & Indexing (A&I) database.
(It is also known as an “abstract & citation” database)
Worldwide, Scopus is used by academic, government and corporate institutions and is the main data source that supports the Research Intelligence portfolio.
What does it do?
It is a research discovery solution. It aggregates and points to scholarly literature (articles, conference papers, books, reviews, etc.) across 5,000 publishers.
What’s the difference between an A&I database like Scopus and a Full-Text platform like ScienceDirect?
An A&I database provides the user only with an abstract of the article and a link to the full text of the article on that specific platform. If the affiliation or institution subscribes to that platform then the user can have access to the full-text article.
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Let’s get to know Scopus
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World University Ranking bodies use Scopus data
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World University Ranking bodies use Scopus data
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Coverage of high quality journals via selection by the
independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)
• The CSAB is an independent board of subject experts from all over the world.
• Board members are chosen for their expertise in specific subject areas; many have (journal) Editor
experience
• Titles are selected for Scopus inclusion by the CSAB.
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Scopus Journal Selection Criteria
Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability
Peer-review
All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review:
Eligible titles are reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a
combination of 14 quantitative and qualitative selection criteria:
• 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: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview
Questions: titlesuggestion@scopus.com
Title suggestion form: http://suggestor.step.scopus.com/suggestTitle/step1.cfm
English
abstractsRegular
publication
Roman script
references
Pub. ethics
statement
Stage 1:
Stage 2:
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Successful journal selection is a combination of different aspects
Quality
Diversity Relevancy
Successful
journal
selection
Scientific quality of the science
published, but also publishing
format and (ethical) standards
Is the
(international)
diversity of
authorship and
editorial board in
line with aims &
scope
Is the content
type and subject
relevant to the
(international)
user base of
Scopus
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Scopus: Let’s dive deeper into source coverage
21,951 peer-reviewed
journals
280 trade journals
• Full metadata, abstracts
and cited references (refs
post-1970 only)
• Funding data from
acknowledgements
• Citations back to 1970
Physical
Sciences
7,441
Health
Sciences
7,133
Social
Sciences
8,698
Life
Sciences
4,601
100K conference
events
8M conference
papers
Mainly Engineering
and Computer
Sciences
562 book series
150K stand-alone
books
1.2M items
Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H
68M records from 23K serials, 100K conferences and 150K books
from more than 5K publishers and 105 countries,
indexed into 27 main subject areas
• Updated daily
• Records back to 1823
• “Articles in Press” from > 3,750 titles
• 40 different languages covered
• 3,643 active Gold Open Access journals indexed
BOOKSCONFERENCESJOURNALS
27M patents
From 5 major
patent offices
- WIPO
- EPO
- USPTO
- JPO
- UK IPO
PATENTS*
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Overall Content Comparison with the nearest competitor
Scopus
6,822 (+91%)
Nearest
competito
r
3,577
Health Sciences
Scopus
4,532 (+48%)
Nearest
competitor
3,052
Life Sciences
Scopus
8,233 (+96%)
Nearest
competitor
4,202
Social Sciences
Source: Web of Science Real Facts, Web of Science Core Collection title list and Scopus’ own data (May 2016)
Scopus22,748
(+80%)
Nearest
competitor
12,459
Nearest competitor
~12K titles (Core Collection),(18,000 with ESCI) – WoS Core 3
3,300 publishers
Updated weekly
~22K titles
>5,000 publishers
Updated daily
Scopus
7,450 (+69%)
Physical Sciences
Nearest
competitor
4,408
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What does being indexed in Scopus mean?
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What does being indexed in Scopus mean for a journal?
A journal that is suggested to Scopus and gets accepted for inclusion by the CSAB Subject
Chairs and indexed into its database will get:
• international visibility
• increased citations for individual researchers as well as the journal
• increases the opportunity for collaboration with other researchers from around the world
The journal will also be contributing to the wider scholarly community in the specialist
subject field.
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Scopus journal selection criteria
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Transparent Scopus selection criteria for serial content
Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability
Eligible titles are reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a
combination of 14 quantitative and qualitative selection criteria:
• 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
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content/content-policy-and-selection or titlesuggestion@scopus.com
Previous webinar with more information on Scopus content selection criteria : https://blog.scopus.com/webinars
Peer-reviewEnglish
abstracts
Regular
publicationRoman script
referencesPub. ethics
statement
All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review:Stage 1:
Stage 2:
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Ongoing content curation of Scopus to ensure continuous high-quality content
Identification of
poorly performing
journals using
metrics &
benchmarks
“Radar” to predict
journals with outlier
performance
Direct feedback
from users and
stakeholders on
poorly performing
journals
Re-evaluation by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)
Content Curation
Curation of the full journal base is essential and expected by our
customers and users.
Review:
Curate:
Find more information on Elsevier.com ‘Discontinued Sources List’: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content
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Transparent, annual re-evaluation process to ensure titles continue to
meet high quality standards
Learn more on this topic via the Scopus blog: http://blog.scopus.com/posts/scopus-launches-annual-journal-re-evaluation-process-to-maintain-content-quality
or Elsevier.com: http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content/content-policy-and-selection#title_re-evaluation
Full Scopus Journal base
Year 1
Year 2
Analyze full Scopus journal corpus performance based on
set metrics & benchmarks
Flag underperforming journals & inform journal publishers
If a journal underperforms for 2 consecutive years, CSAB
will re-evaluate the title based on Scopus selection criteria
Continue forward flow Discontinue forward flow or
Analyze full Scopus journal corpus performance based on
set metrics & benchmarks
Flag underperforming journals & inform journal publishers
Flagged journals for which concerns are raised, CSAB will
re-evaluate the title based on Scopus selection criteria
CSAB review
CSAB decision
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Latest Developments in Scopus
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Funding Acknowledgements
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Funding data expansion project
What?
• Capture full text funding information
• Tag funding body name, acronym and number using Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Backfill full text funding information and tagging back to 2008 and further
• Include funding information from 3rd
party curated lists: (NIH/NSF/CrossRef/KAKEN/ResearchFish)
Why?
• Provide funders with high(er) quality funding information in Scopus
• Allows for verification & identifying additional funding sources
Scope
• 2016 going forward
• Backfill to 2008 (same as WoS) and further
2015 2017Q1
2016Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
2017Q2 Q3 Q4
Start capture funding
information forward flow
Visualize funding data in
Scopus.comProject end
Start development NPL tagging tool
Start defining capturing instructions
Start including
3rd party lists
Number Funding Acronym
Conselho Nacional de Desenvo
lvimento Científico e Tecnológico CNPq
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
291472 European Research Council ERC
Funding text
We are grateful for K. Behnia, Y.-L. Chen, L.-K. Lim,
Z.-K. Liu, E. G. Mele, J. Moore, S.-Q. Shen and D.
Varjas for helpful discussions. This work was
financially supported by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemein- schaft DFG (Project No. EB
518/1-1 of DFG-SPP 1666 Topological Insulators,
and SFB 1143) and by the ERC (Advanced Grant No.
291472 Idea Heusler). R.D.d.R. acknowledges
financial support from the Brazilian agency CNPq.
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Funding acknowledgements in Scopus records
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Search by Funding Sponsor
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Journal metrics and CiteScore
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When used correctly, research metrics together with qualitative input give a balanced, multi-
dimensional view for decision-making
Two Golden Rules for using research metrics
Always use both qualitative
and quantitative input into
your decisions
Always use more than one
research metric as the
quantitative input
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Journal Metrics in Scopus: CiteScore, SNIP and SJR
SJR
• SJR = SCImago Journal Rank
• More prestigious nature of citations that come
from within the same, or a closely related field
• Overcome the tendency for prestige scores
the quantity of journals increases
• Readily understandable scoring scale with an
average of 1 for easy comparison
www.journalmetrics.com
SNIP
• SNIP = Sourced Normalized Impact per Paper
• Refined metric calculation, better corrects for field
differences
• Outlier scores are closer to average
• Readily understandable scoring scale with an average
of 1 for easy comparison
CiteScore• A metric that gives a more comprehensive, transparent and current view of a
journal’s impact.
• A 3 year citation window
• CiteScore’s numerator and denominator both include all document types. This
includes articles, reviews, letters, notes, editorials, conference papers and other
documents indexed by Scopus are included. The numerator and the
denominator used in the CiteScore calculation are thus consistent.
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Filling the gap in the Scopus basket of journal metrics
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Compensates for differences in
field, type and age
Meaningful benchmark is “built in” –
1 is average for a subject area
× People may not like small numbers
× Complicated; difficult to validate
× No idea of magnitude: how many
citations does it represent?
Large number
Simple, easy to validate
Communicates magnitude of
activity
× Affected by differences in field,
type and age
× Meaningless without additional
benchmarking
withSNIP and SJRCiteScore
and associated metrics
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What are CiteScore metrics?
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CiteScore is a simple metric for all Scopus journals
B
CiteScore 2016 value
B
=
A
Citations in 2016
Documents from 3 years
20122011 2013 2014 2015 2016
A
CiteScore Impact Factor
A = citations to 3 years of documents A = citations to 2 or 5 years of documents
B = all documents indexed in Scopus, same as A B = only citable items (articles and reviews),
different from A
2017
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Advantages of CiteScore metrics
CurrentTransparentComprehensive
Based on Scopus, the
world’s broadest abstract
and citation database
CiteScore metrics will be
available for all serial
titles, not just journals
CiteScore metrics could be
calculated for portfolios
CiteScore metrics will be
available for free
CiteScore metrics are easy
to calculate for yourself
The underlying database
is available for you to
interrogate
CiteScore Tracker is
updated monthly
New titles will have
CiteScore metrics the year
after they are indexed in
Scopus
And best of all, it’s FREE!
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PlumX Metrics
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Plum Analytics joined Elsevier in February 2017
47Source: https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/corporate/elsevier-acquires-leading-altmetrics-provider-plum-analytics
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USAGE(clicks, downloads, views,
library holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
readers, watchers)
MENTIONS(blog posts, comments,
reviews, Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS(citation indexes, patent
citations, clinical citations)
Metrics
Categories
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So what are the latest developments in Scopus
There are many developments, but if I have to mention just three:
1. Funding ackoweldgements in Scopus are being heavily expanded
2. CiteScore journal metrics and www.journalmetrics.scopus.com
3. PlumX Metrics
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(3) Q & A
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Important Scopus resources to stay up to date:Site URL
Scopus Info Site https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus
Scopus Blog http://blog.scopus.com
Scopus newsletter https://communications.elsevier.com/webApp/els_doubleOptInWA?do=0&srv=
els_scopus&sid=71&uif=0&uvis=3
Twitter www.twitter.com/scopus
Facebook www.facebook.com/elsevierscopus
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/scopus-an-eye-on-global-research
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ScopusDotCom
Thank You!