Scopus whats new

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Scopus whats new

• September 2009

Piotr Golkiewicz Account Manager
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Journal Evaluation Tool What does Scopus offer

• Gives users a comparative overview of the journal
  landscape, showing how titles in a given field
  are performing relative to each other
• Quantitative data is presented in an easy,
  comprehensive graphical format comparing
  citations of max. 10 journals from over 15,000
  peer reviewed journals from today all the way
  back to 1996
• Data is updated bi-monthly to ensure currency
• Scopus Evaluation Tool a tool to make better
  informed decisions.

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Journal Evaluation Tool What does it look like?
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Journal Evaluation Tool What does it look like?
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Journal Evaluation Tool What does it look like?
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More for Scopus Journal Analyzer

• You want to check the citation behaviour of a
  Journals?
• Exclude Journal Self-Citations
• i.e. documents within a journal that cite the
  same journal's article
• applies to all citation-based charts (incl.
  Dataview).
• Want a quick performance overview of particular
  journals away from your desk?
• Journal Analyzer Print
• Print all graphs or Dataview displayed via the
  Journal Analyzer.
• available for Preview users based on email
  referrals (no IP access).

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Google indexing of Scopus Author Profiles

• How to give Authors achievements the highest
  visibility?
• Scopus Author Details pages indexed and
  searchable by Google.
• The second fast lane for non/ - subscriber to
  Scopus author information!
• Preview of the author identifier
• Google indexed Author details (preview)
• Benefits

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Arts Humanities (AH) in Scopus

• 2009 Scopus adds 1,450 titles
• Total of 3,500 AH titles available
• Titles are selected to reflect high quality
  journals with the help of
  the European Reference Index for the
  Humanities (ERIH) by the European Science
  Foundation (ESF)

Scopus is now truly an all-science database for
large universities with strong AH faculties
No extra charge
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Arts Humanities in Scopus as a proportion of
all Scopus titles
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Note that titles can be assigned to more than one
subject area
Arts Humanities in Scopus distribution per
subject area
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Arts Humanities in Scopus world distribution
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Arts Humanities in Scopus top 10 publishers
Most frequently occurring publishers
Publisher Number of titles Taylor
Francis (incl.Routledge, Haworth
Press) 8.16 284 SAGE Publications 5.57 194 Wi
ley Blackwell 5.14 179 Springer 4.14 144 El
sevier (incl.Pergamon, Academic Press,
Masson) 4.14 144 Cambridge University
Press 2.21 77 Oxford University
Press 2.21 77 Brill Academic Publishers 1.70 59
Johns Hopkins University Press 1.15 40 Walter
de Gruyter and Co. 1.15 40 Other 64.19 2,219
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Arts Humanities in Scopus top 10 languages
Most frequently occurring languages
Note that titles can be published in more than
one language
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First Author Search

• On the basic advanced search forms, a new will
  be added in the dropdown list which will allow
  author searches to be limited to first authors of
  a document record

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Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP)

• STEP is a web-based program which allows members
  of the CSAB to review title suggestions and vote
  online.
• Benefits of STEP
• Those suggesting new titles are able to learn why
  their title was accepted or rejected and
  communication with them is streamlined
• Shorter decision-making cycle
• Reports are readily available, by country or
  region, for suggested titles / accepted titles.

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More info
www.info.scopus.com
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Thank you

• Piotr Golkiewicz
• Account Manager Elsevier B.V.
• p.golkiewicz_at_elsevier.com