Journal Quality and Scopus

Selection Process

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Agenda

Importance of being indexed in International

database2

Brief Introduction 1

Journal Metrics in Scopus 4

Submission & Evaluation 3

From Publisher to Information Analytics Company

Content Technology

16% of the world’s research in +2000 journals

Books

35,000 published books

User queries

13M monthly users on ScienceDirect

Chemistry database

500M published experimental facts

Drug Database

100% of drug information from pharma

1,000 technologists employed by Elsevier

$400M invested in technology annually

Machine learningOver 1,000 predictive models

Machine reading

475M facts extracted from ScienceDirect

Collaborative filtering

1B articles analyzed daily

Why is Scopus a great

data source?

Scopus has Global Representation across all subjects and content types

23,452 peer-reviewed journals

290 trade journals

5,353 Gold OA Journals

(DOAJ/ROAD)

• 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

9M conference

papers

Mainly

Engineering and

Computer

Sciences

562 book series

197K stand-alone

books

1.65M items

Focus on Social

Sciences and A&H

75M records from 23K serials, 100K conferences and 197K books from 5000 publishers and 105 countries

• Updated daily

• Records back to 1823

• “Articles in Press” from > 8,075 titles

• 40 different languages covered

• 5,353 active Gold Open Access journals indexed

BOOKSCONFERENCESJOURNALS

27M patents

From 5 major

patent offices

- WIPO

- EPO

- USPTO

- JPO

- UK IPO

PATENTS*

Unique Aspects of Scopus

Big

Data

University

Ranking

Scopus 74M papers

from 23K titles

available to every

Scopus user.

One Database =

Simple model.

Every author with a

paper in Scopus has

an Author Profile.

Each institutions has

Institutional

Profile(s).

Every serial title in

Scopus has Journal

Metrics such as

CiteScore, SJR, and

SNIP.

Transparent

Selection process

by CSAB

Big-Data-Analytics

SciVal uses super-

computing to

provide 70T data

points.

Unique insights for

Policy-Makers and

University

Ranking

organizations THE

and QS

CSAB

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Only 40% of the journals in Scopus are from the big publishers (e.g. 11% Elsevier). 60% of

the journals are smaller publishers and university journals.

*Counts September 2017

Scopus

delivers a

comprehensive

view on the

world of

research

No packages,

no add-ons.

One all-

inclusive

subscription

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Independent Content Selection Advisory Board (CSAB)

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So why is it important to be indexed in an

international database like Scopus?

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

DD

Submission and Evaluation

Always check if your

journal fulfils the

minimum criteria before

submission

The Golden Rule

Scopus: selection criteria and process

DD

Stage 1: The minimum criteria

Scopus: selection criteria and process

2 years content minimum with ISSN

Peer review

English: website, abstracts, keywords and titles

Roman script references

Ethics statement

Regular publication

On-line availability

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Scopus: selection criteria and process

SubmissionConfirmation and tracking number

given

Checking against the minimum

criteria

Enrichment of the required

information

Input from external

reviewers

Passed on to CSAB

Evaluation by Subject Chair at CSAB and the

decision

Response sent to journal

Journal is accepted or

rejected with an embargo period

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What journals is the CSAB looking for?

Set of requirements was designed to reflect the best practices in scholarly publishing

1. High quality and original content

2. Well edited and with longevity

3. Focussed upon their roots and subject area(s)

4. Make significant, measurable and valued contribution to its target audience and field

5. International/global relevance but also valuable locally

6. Honest, ethical and focused on high quality and standards

Scopus: selection criteria and process

DD

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

abstracts

Regular

publicationRoman script

referencesPub. ethics

statement

Stage 1:

Stage 2:

DD

Journal Pre-evaluation Tool

Scopus: selection criteria and process

www.readyforscopus.com

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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.

CiteScore is a simple metric for all Scopus journals

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

B

CiteScore 2018 value

B

=

A

Documents from 3 years

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

A

2014

Scopus Source List

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