Turkiye

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Turkiyede Akademik Yükselmeler, Akademik
Arastirma Performans Ölçümü ve SCOPUS

• TAYFUN BASAL
• ELSEVIER
• TURKIYE ORTA ASYA SATIS MUDURU
• t.basal_at_elsevier.com

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Turkish Academic Research - Figures
1996-2006
H Index 96
Documents 120.596
Citable Documents 114.412
Cites 375.817
Self Cites 121.398 (32 of total cites)
Cites per Doc. 4,10
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE DOCUMENTS FOR 2006TOP 5 FIELDS

• MEDICINE 30.55
• BIOCHEMISTRY, GENETICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 7.9
• AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 6.88
• ENGINEERING 6.71
• PHYSICS ASTRONOMY 5.46

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COUNTRY INDICATORS
Country Documents Citable Documents Cites Self-Cites Cites per Doc. H index
1 United States 3.437.213 3.239.926 43.436.526 21.509.159 12,85 793
2 Japan 983.020 963.985 7.167.200 2.450.850 7,55 372
3 United Kingdom 962.640 877.701 9.895.817 2.610.912 10,88 465
4 Germany 888.287 845.001 8.377.298 2.444.497 9,98 408
5 China 758.042 754.338 1.629.993 795.709 3,14 161
6 France 640.163 608.661 5.795.531 1.475.203 9,48 376
7 Canada 473.763 451.822 4.728.874 1.018.342 10,90 370
8 Italy 461.292 440.392 3.821.440 976.002 8,98 321
9 Spain 330.399 312.368 2.350.185 657.828 7,96 244
10 Russian Federation 330.020 328.085 1.064.077 359.412 3,25 178
11 Australia 295.977 278.173 2.566.649 598.094 9,72 272
12 India 286.109 274.717 994.561 367.962 3,91 146
13 Netherlands 264.565 251.442 3.012.291 578.431 12,35 311
14 Korea, Republic Of 217.879 215.095 1.018.532 266.351 5,84 161
15 Sweden 194.921 187.455 2.188.026 427.863 11,80 279
16 Switzerland 188.134 178.820 2.384.981 379.539 13,85 321
17 Taiwan, Province of China 164.823 162.036 769.206 210.844 5,53 139
18 Brazil 163.550 159.747 752.658 247.286 5,56 148
19 Poland 159.536 157.146 682.354 222.508 4,84 149
20 Belgium 141.737 135.251 1.347.624 236.307 10,39 238
21 Turkey 120.596 114.412 375.817 121.398 4,10 96
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• WHERE DO WE STAND ON AN INTERNATIONAL BASIS ?

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Turkeys position in the regional and
international scope
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of universities in the Times top 200
2006 THES RANKING
2005 Times list
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of universities in the Times top 200
NO TURKISH UNIVERSITIES IN TOP 200 YET..
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DOCUMENTS PRODUCED PER COUNTRY IN 2007
India India Iran Iran Kuwait Kuwait
Indian Inst of Tech 1493 Tehran Univ 468 Kuwait Univ 320
Indian Inst of Science 519 Tehran Univ of Med Sc 295 Kw Inst for Sc Res 47
Bhabha Atom Res 354 Sharif Univ 289 Kw Cancer Control c 8
UK UK US US
Univ. Cambridge 3,053 Univ. Texas 6,247
Univ. Oxford 2,493 Harvard Univ. 5,473
Univ. London Imperial Coll. 2,164 Univ. Washington 3,395
Turkey is powerful in middleeast gulf but not
at high rank. globally
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Comparison

• Turkey                                           
  Iran                                              
          Greece               
• 2002 5,695                                   
   2002  528                                       
        2002 2,376
• 2003 7,035                                     2
  003  769                                         
      2003 2,709
• 2004 7,930                                    
  2004  951                                        
       2004 3,320
• 2005 9,115                                    
  2005  1690                                       
      2005 3,815
• 2006 9,189                                    
  2006  2420                                       
      2006 4,310
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• 38,964                              
                     6358                       
                             16,530
• Total articles published (2002-2006) 
• H-INDEX (2002-2006)                         
• 57                                            
            29                       
                                   80
• H-INDEX (1996-PRESENT)                
• 84                             
                            38                      
                                  121
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Economic and Population growth in Turkey are
higher than in the UK, however RD Spend and of
researchers are clearly lagging
Macro-economics
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Macro-economics
The per capita RD spend is significantly below
the UK figures
2006 RD-spend/Capita
2006 GDP/Capita
3.5 X
3.7 X
7.6X
1.2 X
9.7 X
11.6 X
62.2 X
1.9 X


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Low and Medium developed countries can
significantly increase their performance in RD
by increasing their investment per Capita to the
UK-GDP/Capita ratio
Source CIA world book of facts 2007, UNESCO, All
values are against GDP(PPP)
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To win the marathon a good position at the start
is crucial
comparing countries research performance
Iran
Turkey
Egypt
Spain
UK
US
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International rankings still show a huge lead for
UK and US universities
comparing countries research performance
2005
2007
Egypt
Iran
Turkey
Spain
UK
US
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Turkey has only 1.2 of articles indexed on
Scopus but is showing promising growth, while UK
and US shares decline
comparing countries research performance
Average share of articles published worldwide
articles published
Growth 02-06 96-01
Egypt 10 3
Iran 39 22
Turkey 18 13
The UK and US contribute 32.3 of world articles
but representing only 5.5 of the world population
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Science Development
USA 288,000 papers Ave Rel. Imp 1.47
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Development of Science A closer look
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TRENDS IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH

• THES TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

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THES World University Rankings powered by Scopus

• Quoting THES on the switch from Thomson to
  Scopus
• Being able to track data for 127 more
  institutions than in 2006
• Better representation from non-English language
  journals
• Greater representation outside US
• Scopus better at Asia
• More transparent

What is the result in this change?
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New Scopus release improved support for
measuring academic research performance 26
April 2008

• Find information effectively
• Make better-informed decisions

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Agenda

• Upcoming release
• Update on Scopus content
• Scopus cited-by integration
• Benchmarking study
• Custom Data

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Spring Release At a glance

• Affiliation Identifier worlds first online
  tool to automatically identify and group an
  organization with all its research output
• Journal Evaluator comparative overview of
  journal performance by discipline
• Author Citations Alerts monitoring an authors
  citations
• Maintain Alerts ongoing notification of results
  and citations for former-users
• Shibboleth access same login for Scopus and
  other resources, both inside and outside customer
  institutions.

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Affiliation Identifier
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Challenges Academics Governments

• Institutions under pressure to analyze and
  quantify research achievements of own institute
  and others
• Senior managers take resource allocation
  decisions
• Middle managers analyze research trends
• Students decide where they want to study/do
  research
• Funding bodies, governments, beneficiaries
  quantitatively evaluate institutions by counting
  the number of research papers produced over time

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In other words its all about resources

• Time
• to pursue research
• to analyze research output
• Money
• to fund research
• to attract/keep right research
• But
• spelling variants of institutes
• make it difficult to spend these resources
• in a useful way

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Scopus offers the solution Affiliation
Identifier

• The worlds first online tool to automatically
  identify and group an organization with all its
  research output
• Launched
• integration into the Scopus interface and
  operating across the entire database of 15,000
  peer-reviewed journals (Spring release, 26 Apr
  2008)
• View an organizations summary page
• Provide feedback when logged in (e.g. merge
  profiles)

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Affiliation Identifier What does it do?

• Matches institutional name variants into profiles
• via a combination of sophisticated algorithms
• against comprehensive knowledge base of
  standardised affiliation names of 4.4mln profiles
  
• 2mln main institute profiles
• 2.4mln department profiles (e.g. univ hospital)
• Provides the vital first step towards reviewing
  an organisations research output, hence leaves
  more time for the actual research
• Identifying an institutions output could easily
  take a couple of days. With Scopus this will take
  at most a few minutes.

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Affiliation Identifier Something for everyone

• Deans, chancellors, provosts can spend less time
  and money measuring research performance and
  channel it into other areas
• Heads of departments can spend less time
  aggregating and more time on benchmarking
  analysis. Make good decisions faster
• Managers, project leaders spot trends,
  collaborators and competitors faster and more
  precisely.

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Affiliation Identifier What does it look like?
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Affiliation Identifier What does it look like ?
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Affiliation Identifier What does it look like
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More time to do the actual benchmarking analysis
and make faster, better-informed resource
allocation decisions
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Affiliation Identifier one additional benefit
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Journal Evaluation Tool
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Journal Evaluation Tool The Challenges

• For publishing editors, authors, reviewers,
  researchers
• editors try to establish a superior reputation
  for their journals
• authors, reviewers and researchers will be
  attracted by the most highly valued and
  prestigious journals in their subject field
• For librarians
• librarians need to make well informed budget
  decisions (portfolio management)
• Librarians need to prove that they can provide
  returns on their investments

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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 Benefits to user groups

• Editors/publishing teams helps them to monitor
  progress against competitors, or decide which
  titles to become involved with (as board member)
• Researchers/Medical Communication Agencies helps
  them to decide where to publish, how to
  prioritize their submissions, or which titles
  they should review for
• Librarians helps librarians invest their
  budgets in the most important and relevant
  journals for their portfolio, using the data to
  develop a long-term acquisitions strategy (incl
  ISSN, publisher info)

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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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Journal Evaluation Tool What does it look like?
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Author Citation Alerts
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Author Citation Alerts Background

• Imagine an author has 500 publications and you
  would like to know when any of them get cited
• Currently this means 500 document citations
  alerts
• Now with setting up 1 author citation alert it is
  done for all the publications of an author

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Author Citation Alerts Benefits

• Author Citation Alert saves valuable time,
  because users only need to create a search once
  (instead of e.g. 500)
• Ensure to not miss any instance of an author
  being cited
• E-mail notification can be setup on a daily,
  weekly or monthly basis
• E-mail contains links to the AbstractsRefs pages
  of the new documents citing the author(s)
• Alerts can be managed through the My Alerts
  feature.

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Author Citation Alerts How does it work?
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Author Citation Alerts How does it work?
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Author Citation Alerts How does it work?
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Author Citation Alerts additional info

• Alerts are already available for searches and
  document citations
• Another new feature as of this release Users can
  now set Search Alerts from the Author Details
  Page

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Maintain Alerts
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Maintain Alerts Benefits

• Former Scopus users will continue to receive
  e-mail notification of search results or
  citations if they still have personal alerts set
  up
• The notification e-mail will contain a link to
  My Alerts where the user can either maintain,
  deactivate or permanently delete their alerts
• Links to Scopus will not work without a valid
  subscription to Scopus
• Users regaining Scopus access via trial or
  subscription will be able to access personal
  alerts previously set-up with their old username
  and password
• No such thing as a Scopus ex-user unles the
  alert will be deactivated

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Maintain Alerts What does it look like?
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Shibboleth
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Shibboleth Benefits

• From the second half of 2008, institutions will
  be able to use Shibboleth, the federated
  authentication technology, to access Scopus
• Shibboleth will enable users to use the same
  login credentials to access multiple information
  resources from both their own organization and
  those provided by third-party vendors
• This feature has been developed to help users
  keep on top of developing trends in their
  field(s) in a more timely and efficient manner

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Shibboleth Benefits

• Logging on to Scopus using Shibboleth login
  credentials will provide the following benefits
  to the user
• no need to remember a separate Scopus username
  and password
• easy access to all the personalisation features
  of Scopus (Saved Searches, E-mail alerts, My
  List, RefWorks settings etc.)
• access to Scopus outside of the institutional
  IP-address range
• To access Scopus using existing Shibboleth login
  credentials, institutions must contact
• Ale de Vries, Sr Product Manager
  (ale_at_elsevier.com).

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Scopus Spring Release Summary Benefits

• Continues to break new ground with the innovative
  Scopus Affiliation Identifier and the Journal
  Evaluator
• Consolidates the most user-friendly suite of
  online research evaluation tools available
  anywhere
• Presents researchers, managers, librarians and
  students with a unique overview of the evolving
  information landscape allowing them to find
  information effectively and make better informed
  decisions
• The release is now live from 26th April 2008

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Scopus content
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The Value Triangle
What do users expect from Scopus content?
Rele- vancy

• Sources
• Journal selection
• Strategy non-journal content
• (conf. proc., books, trade journals)
• Addition of archival material

Credi- bility

• Translate facts
• into perception
• Create
• transparency
• Demonstrate
• value

Communication

• Quality of sources
• Completeness
• Currency
• Richness
• Correctness

Relia- bility
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Relevancy What should be covered in
Scopus

• Improve title selection (600 new titles as of
  2008)
• Process
• improve selection process (involve more
  reviewers)
• increase transparency on selection outcome
• Strategy sharpen selection criteria
• Vision identify growth areas (regional content,
  social sc.)
• Develop strategy for non-journal content
• Trade journals
• concentrate on key titles
• introduce more restrictive cvrg policy (capture
  the diamonds)
• Conf. material currently 3mln conference
  papers
• Add archive material
• Load Elsevier archive to vol.1 iss. 1 (until July
  2008)
• Backfill 50 key library sc. journals to 1980
  (refs as of 1996)
• Backfill gt1,500 highly cited titles to 1996
  beyond what WoS has
• Add OLDMEDLINE (1949-1965) in 2nd half 2008

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Scopus core records Distribution by source type

• Scopus captures all conferences of gt70 important
  societies (mainly engineering), e.g. IEEE, ACM,
  IEE, SPIE
• In 2006/07 over 1,750 conferences were captured)
• Scopus title list shows gt520 serial proceedings

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Scopus core records Distribution by document
type
Meho/Yang (J. Amer. Soc. Inf. Sc. Tech. 2007)
Without Scopus, authors who communicate
extensively through conferences will be at a
disadvantage when their citation counts are
compared with those who publish primarily in
journals due to poor coverage of conference
proceedings in WoS.
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Breadth and depthMedline 100 - fully integrated
in Scopus

• Among 15,600 titles on Scopus are all 5,000
  titles that Medline indexes
• For the majority of the Medline titles (4,000
  titles), Scopus has direct agreements with
  publishers (Medline feed used to add Mesh terms)
• For 850 Medline titles in Scopus, Medline is the
  only source (Medline-sourced previously
  called Medline-unique) Three potential
  shortcomings
• No refs captured by Medline
• Only first author affiliation captured by Medline
• Lower currency than on Pubmed
• Medline on Pubmed offers pre-published versions
  of many journals
• Called Epub ahead of print
• This early view layer is not part of the
  Medline feed to 3rd party vendors, so Scopus does
  not receive those
• Scopus has its own project of adding
  pre-published versions of major publishers (see
  separate slide)

Reason NLM supplies 3rd party vendors (e.g.
Ovid, Scopus, WoK) with content only once they
have enriched them with Mesh heaings, whereas on
Pubmed the records are visible already before
index terms are added (Pubmed in process)
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Reliability How should these sources
be covered

• Completeness
• Issue level reached 99.7 completeness for
  1996-2004
• Record level detect missing records by
  identifying highly cited journal articles in the
  MORE tab
• Metadata level
• Lauched initiative to detect records with missing
  metadata (e.g. country affiliation) and have that
  corrected
• Clear backlog of light updates until end April
  (Mesh and Emtree index term, DOI)
• Currency
• Add more Articles in Press until June (Nature
  Publishing Group, Cambridge University Press,
  IEEE, BioMed Central)
• Move more journals from paper to electronic
  delivery
• Clear backlog of conf proceedings (until June
  2008)
• Richness reload journal level classification
  with corrected subject categories for 70 of
  journals (2nd half 2009)

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Richness Abstracts made available as of 1850
? One key objective of Scopus is to provide the
user with as much information as possible about
the presented research. Therefore 24mln records
in Scopus offer an abstract e.g. this highly
cited chemistry paper of 1938.
? Other products has a different approach
offering abstracts only as of 1991. The number of
abstracts in is around 11.5mln.
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Richness Link between authors and affiliations
Scopus captures the link between author and
affiliation, whereas WoS does not establish this
link
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Ten top-cited articles of Lithuanian authors
45 more citations on avrg
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CredibilityAre you catching all citations?
We made some citation frequency comparisons
between Scopus, Web of Science and Google
Scholar.limited to articles published from
1996. Scopus finds 9 more citations than Web of
Science when limited to articles from
1996-. Scopus finds 20 more citations than
Google Scholar when limited to articles from
1996-.
Lars Iselid, Umea University, Sweden
(2007) Source http//oneentry.wordpress.com/2006/
03/29/citation-frequency-in-scopus-web-of-science-
and-google-scholar/
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CredibilityAre you catching all citations?
After doing a research output analysis with
Scopus The biggest surprise was the wide range
of publications (853 journal titles since 1996)
for this small segment of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering authors early estimates had this
number around two to three hundred (200-300)
journal titles. This range of publications was
something that Scopus specifically was able to
highlight given the breadth of its title
coverage. Thirty-eight percent of these titles
are not included in Web of Science or do not have
an ISI impact factor. Of the 853 titles where MSK
surgeons published, only thirteen percent are
currently not covered by Scopus.
Kimberly Hill (Charleston Advisor 2007) Source
http//charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/con
tent/charleston/chadv/2007/00000009/00000002/art00
019
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CredibilityAre you catching all citations?
After doing a research output analysis with
Scopus Although broader coverage of the
literature does not significantly alter the
relative citation ranking of individual researcher
s, Scopus helps distinguish between the
researchers in a more nuanced fashion than Web of
Science in both citation counting and h-index.
... The study concludes that Scopus can be used
as a sole data source for citation-based research
and evaluation in HCI, especially if citations in
conference proceedings are sought and that h
scores should be manually calculated instead of
relying on system calculations."
Meho/Rogers (March 2008) Source
http//dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2253/
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Benchmark study - 2007 edition

• Conducted by Research Academic Relations
• Regular study to measure librarian and end-user
  satisfaction across different products

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Increased Librarian Overall Satisfaction
LIBRARIANS

• Increases in overall satisfaction has moved
  Scopus into the top tier (previously mid-tier)

Completely or Very Satisfied
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End User Awareness has doubled
END USERS
(62)
(50)
(52)
(20)
2006 awareness
(28)
(22)
(16)
(14)
(9)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
(4)
(N/A)
Q1 Which online scientific, technical, medical
or social science information services are you
aware of? Base All End users (n 2686) Weighted
base
2006 data in parentheses
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Cited-by integration

• Scopus cited-by counts are already integrated at
  several places
• ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect top 25
• Scirus Topic Pages
• Biowizard
• Now cited-by counts can also be found here
• Science
• American Institute of Physics

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Scopus Cited-by integration on Science
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Another example for cited-by integration AIP
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April 26 Release at a glance

• Affiliation Identifier worlds first online
  tool to automatically identify and group an
  organization with all its research output
• Journal Evaluator comparative overview of
  journal performance by discipline
• Author Citations Alerts monitoring an authors
  citations
• Maintain Alerts ongoing notification of results
  and citations for former-users
• Shibboleth access same login for Scopus and
  other resources, both inside and outside customer
  institutions.

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Global Users in Academia, Government, Corporate

• SOOI (Leuven, Belgium)
• TUBITAK, Turkey
• Korea Research Foundation
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  Information
• Yonsei University, Korea
• New Zealand Ministry of Research Science and
  Technology
• Policy Research Centre for RD Indicators SOOI,
  Leuven, Belgium
• SciTech Strategies, USA
• Brazilian Universities Consortium

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Turkish SCOPUS Users
TUBITAK , ULAKBIM ODTU VAN 100.YIL GAZI
UNIVERSITESI ANKARA UNIVERSITESI
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