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USING SCOPUS AS A RESEARCH TOOL

Solution Consultant (e-platform and content)

South East Asia

Elise Shen (e.shen@elsevier.com)

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What content does Scopus include?

53.3M records from 21,912 serial titles and 30,000 books
21.3M pre 1996 records | 32.0M post 1995 records

Content from > 5,000 publishers

Articles in Press from > 3,750 titles
Titles from 105 different countries in all
geographical regions
40 local languages covered
More than 2,800 Gold Open Access journals
indexed

Scopus is ideal compared to other products because it has the broadest

coverage of global, curated, relevant research, with smart, simple tools to
help track, analyze and visualize research.

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What content does Scopus include?

Physical
Sciences
6,600

Health
Sciences
6,300
Social
Sciences
6,350
Life
Sciences
4,050

JOURNALS

CONFERENCES

BOOKS

PATENTS

20,874 peer-reviewed journals

367 trade journals

17k events
5.5M records (10%)

421 book series

- 28K Volumes
- 925K items

24M patents
from 5 major
patent offices

- Full metadata, abstracts and

cited references (pre-1996)
- >2,800 fully Open Access titles
- Going back to 1823
- Funding data from
acknowledgements

Conf. expansion:
1,000 conferences
6,000 conf. events
400k conf. papers
5M citations
Mainly Engineering
and Physical
Sciences

29,917 books
- 311K items
Books expansion:
75K books by 2015
- Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H

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Scopus covers different source types for a reason

JOURNALS
Timely
Peer-reviewed
(formal research)
All subject fields, but
typical fields with high
ratio of journal
publication: chemical,
biological, health sciences
etc.

CONFERENCES

BOOKS

Preliminary research
(can be a bit less
formal)
Newer ideas

Thorough analysis of
a specific topic

Mainly of importance in
Computer Science and
Engineering-related
subject fields

Mainly of importance in
Social Sciences and the
Arts & Humanities

Different source types are added to ensure

that coverage, discoverability, profiles and
impact measurement for research in all
subject fields is accounted for in Scopus.

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Scopus is designed to accelerate the literature research process

1) Whats the best

journal for my
research?

5) Who else is
working on this in
my country or
elsewhere in the
world?

20,500
journals

5,000
publishers

360
book
series

2) Related
interdisciplinary,
global, research?

Global
coverage
All
disciplines

4) Whats the trend

- is this a growing
or declining field?

3) Who is citing my
work?

69% agree that Scopus saves them time in the research process

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Articles Published in Indonesia

Articles published

Cited and Un-cited Documents

International Collaboration

Citations and Self-Citations

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Research Performance Indonesia

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How can Scopus assist you with your research?

Facilitates major tasks researchers have

Searching citations & indexes

Browsing & searching sources
Viewing & storing articles
Search History
Documents Download

Stay up-to-date
Alerts
RSS

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Document Search

Affiliation Search

Analyze Journals

Author Search

Browse Sources

Add More Search Fields

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Search Results
Refine Results
(Limit or Exclude)
Make selection to activate
the button

Sorting Options
Search Alert
(Save & RSS Feed)

Batch Download of PDFs

Make selection to activate
the button

Export Citations Information

Make selection to activate
the button

Display Article Pages

(Abstracts & References)

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Author Information

Citation Information & Alert

Related Articles

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Documents Download

Batch Download and Automatic Naming

Java Required

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View Documents Citation

Overview & Documents h Index

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Overview Options (Sorting &

Exclude Author Self Citation)

Documents h Index

Documents Citation Overview

Export & Print

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Searching
Browsing & Searching

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Sources

Browse Sources
(by Subject or Alphabetical)

SJR & SNIP

(updated annually in October )

Search Sources

Display Journal Page

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Journal Information

Follow this source

Journal Metrics (SJR & SNIP)

Documents List by Publication

Years

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Find Prolific Authors

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Find Prolific Authors

Prolific
authors

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Select journal to submit to for your research area

Journals which publish
most papers in renewable
energy published by
authors from Indonesia
Compare Journals
Performance

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Compare Journals and View SJR and SNIP Data

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Author Search

Display Authors Details

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Author Details

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Visualize Authors Research &

Performance

Export all authors publication

(Mendeley & other Reference
Manager)

Authors Citation Alert

Authors h Index

Authors Document Alert

Add to ORCID

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Author profile corrections

Author profile corrections (split and or merges of profiles
only) occur via the Author feedback wizard:
http://www.scopusfeedback.com/

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Summary

Using Scopus as a Researcher you can:

Author profiling Total number of publications and
citations
Understand a research trends
Which journal to publish my paper
Who can I collaborate with
Fast Route to full-text articles
Questions?

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After this workshop..

Follow up email

Presentation slides
(Soft copies)

Survey
(let us know what was
done well!)

Certificate of
Attendance
(soft copy)

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