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Dr Matt Walker

Scopus & SciVal for researchers workshop

24th January 2017

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Part One: Scopus

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Agenda

1. Brief introduction to Scopus and its coverage

2. Author Search and ORCID - cleaning up your Author profile. Why this is important and how to find future collaborators /competitors on your topic

3. How to stay up to date in your field, how to personalize Scopus and set alerts to save you time finding relevant information

4. Advanced search tips to in-depth literature searches, how to analyse and export information, how to create lists

5. How to view the citation trends for a set of documents, find all publications citing a specific document (or set of documents) and discover the overall impact of publications in a research area

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The largest abstract and citation database of researchinformation

>63M records and 21,912 active titles from more than 5k international publishers. More than 3,780 Gold Open Access journals indexed, 120k books and 7.3M conference proceedings

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Informing national research assessments, policies & reports

• Provision of citation data services for national assessments as well as data, analyses and insights for national and international reports

National Assessmentsincluding UK ‘14 & 

Australia ‘15

BIS reports ’11, ’13 & ‘16

Royal Society ‘11

Sir Andrew Witty Review ‘13Science Europe ‘13

THE World University Rankings (from ‘15) and data partner for QS 

Stem Cell Research ‘13

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Further Information on Scopus & current coverage

Scopus blog: http://blog.scopus.com/

Journal & Books title list:https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/content

Brighttalk Scopus webinars:https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/13703/scopus

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Sample author profile in Scopus

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Analysing author output in Scopus

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H-index available for period 1970-

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Alerts: see when others cite your work & more!

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Search, Author Citation and Document Citation alerts

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More complex analyses

From https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/119061/SustainabilityScienceReport-Web.pdf

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Using concatenate function in Excel

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Trends in theme ‘planet’

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Most prolific countries

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Sources within this set

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Part Two: getting started with SciVal

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Agenda

1. Scopus the data source for SciVal – looking inside the box

2. Creating Research Areas to explore topics and identify key authors and institutions

3. Looking for new collaborators and potential competitors in SciVal Collaboration module

4. Benchmarking yourself against others for grant applications and promotion panels

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SciVal modules

SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 220 nations and >6k research institutions worldwide.

Maynooth subscribes to these three modules

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Accessing SciVal at www.scival.com

If you haven’t previously registered for Scopus or ScienceDirect then please go to Register Now

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Broad range of metrics within SciVal

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Two Golden Rules of using research metrics

• Metrics should be used together with peer review and expert opinion• When metrics and peer review or expert opinion give different answers,

probe further• “Metrics” does not only mean bibliometrics• Multiple metrics used together give the richest perspective

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SciVal metrics guidebook

• Understanding metrics

- Scopus as data source• Selection of

appropriate metrics- What affects their

values, besides performance?

• For each metric- Situations in which

they are useful- When to take care and

how to address short-comings

- Worked examples

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Sample analyses

• Using SciVal to help benchmark your own performance

• Using SciVal to help benchmark a group or school

• Using SciVal to find new collaborators

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Sample analyses

• Using SciVal to help benchmark your own performance

• Using SciVal to help benchmark a group or school

• Using SciVal to find new collaborators

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www.elsevier.com/research-intelligencewww.elsevier.com/research-intelligence

Find out moreScopus https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/13703/scopusSciVal https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/13819/elseviers-research-intelligence

Contact:m.walker.1@elsevier.com