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SciVerse Scopus: Content coverage and title selection
Dr Wim J.N. Meester
Senior Product Manager
Moscow, 18 May 2010
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7 million researchers worldwide
1,5 million research articles per year
3 articles published per minute
“Average researcher is reading 300+ articles per year”
“Researchers can spend up to 31% of time on content related activities”
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Scopus: Scanning the horizon for quality research
Scopus: a broader view on Science
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Broadest source for research answers
17,500Peer reviewed journals
400Trade journals
300Book series
A rich and extended coverage including
> 18,500titles
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Breadth of coverage acrosssubject areas
More than 18,500 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area
Health Sciences 6,200
• (100% Medline)
• Nursing
• Dentistry
• etc.,
Social Sciences 5,900
• Psychology
• Economics
• Business
• A&H
• etc.,
Life Sciences 3,950
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology
• Biology
• etc.,
Physical Sciences 6,350
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Engineering
• etc.,
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Breadth of coverage acrossgeographical areas
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Wider coverage gives a more accurate picture of the research landscape
5,950
500
400
8,7001,050
1,600
350
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Breadth of coverage Russia
Russian Other language
Number of documents in Scopuswith Russian country affiliation in 2006 – 2010
187 Russian titles in Scopus
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Publication types
Bio-Medicine
PhysicalSciences
Engineering Social Sciences
Humanities All Sciences
Adding other content types in subject areas where it matters most
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Broader coverage thannearest peer
Scopus (Total: 18,772)
Web of Science(Total: 11,419)
8,234
881
10,538
www.jisc-adat.com
“The Scopus surplus”
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Broader coverage means more citations
Number of citations to most cited articles in WoS and Scopus
Scopus has on average 10% more citations per article
>7,000 citations for these examples
In Thousands Nearest peer Scopus
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Broader coverage = higher citations
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Exponential growth of academic/scholarly journals
Ulrichsweb.com June 2010
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And new global leaders are emerging
Countries by research output growth rate (%) 1997-2007
366
204
159
12698
76
80
63
50
49
10 5
48
4535
25
2522
-6
Low growth rate
High growth rate
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But these new leaders have relatively low citation rates
0.15
0.19
0.22
0.23
0.200.21
0.46
0.39
0.30
0.45
0.48
0.560.33
0.68
0.59
0.51
0.56
0.540.47
0.13
Countries by average citation count in 2007Low citation rate
High citation rate
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Quality selection by independent, international board
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Scopus new title suggestions
http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/content-selection
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Technical criteria
Eligibility
• Peer-review
• English abstracts
• Regular publication
• References in Roman script
• Publication ethics and malpractice statement
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Journalpolicy
• English language abstracts available
• All cited references in Roman alphabet
• Convincing editorial concept/policy
• Level of peer-review
• Diversity in provenance of editors
• Diversity in provenance of authors
Quality ofcontent
• Academic contribution to the field
• Clarity of abstracts
• Conformity with journal’s aims & scope
• Readability of articles
Citedness• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus
• Citedness of editors in Scopus
Regularity • No delay in publication schedule
Accessibility
• Content available online
• English-language journal home page
• Quality of home page
Scopus selection criteria a combinationof quantitative and qualitative measures
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Scopus Title Evaluation Process
Input
Suggest Title
Check against pre-conditions
OK for Review?
Not for review
Further enrich titles
Review titleMake
decision
ExternalReviewer
Rejection+ reasons
Setup content feed
Feedback decision
YY
YY
NN
NN
Publisher
CSAB
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Top 25 countries suggested titles 2008-2011
Under review
Not for review
Reviewed
(n=6156)
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Top 25 countries reviewed titles (2011)
Rejected
Accepted
(n=232)
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Scholarly titles from the Russian Federation
(20%)
(13%)
Under review by CSABSuggested for review
AcceptedNot accepted for review
Rejected
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Pro-active: Social Sciences and A&H comparison study
ERIH (5,186)
AERES(5,116)
Francis(2,344)
Cairn(219)
1,200
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Comprehensiveness
Adding Publishers’ archives (> 2,650 titles)
Planned:
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This is an “article number”, not a Page Number
New software is being installed to match citations for journals that use this publication method
Quality of content and Correctness
This is an “article number”, not a Page Number
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Tools to improve user experience
Datasets
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Thank You
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Scholarly titles from Spain
(14%)
(4%)
Under review by CSABSuggested for review
AcceptedNot accepted for review
Rejected
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Local initiatives: FECYT (Spain)