Scopus helping to raise the journal quality on an international level

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Dr. Wim MeesterSenior Product Manager – Scopushttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-9350-3448

Scopus helping to raise the journal quality on an international level

May 20, 2014

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Layout of the presentation

• Global research trends (and how Russia is doing)

• Collaboration and Scopus Author Profiles

• Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

• How is Scopus data being used globally?

• Journal metrics in Scopus

• Article level metrics (Cited-by, Altmetrics & Mendeley)

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2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

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Health SciencesSocial Sciences Physical SciencesLife Sciences

37,769 38,97542,238 43,166 44,529

Documents with Russian country affiliation 2009–2013 214 active journals from Russia in Scopus.+ 118 Russian titles published by international publishers (332 active titles total)

Proportion of languages of articles with Russian country affiliation:

English81%

Russian18%

Other1%

Recap: breadth of coverage in Russia

Source: Scopus data 13 May 2014

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International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base (2013)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263729/bis-13-1297-international-comparative-performance-of-the-UK-research-base-2013.pdf

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Science is growing globally

Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2013)

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Investment in R&D is rising

Source: OECD (Million US Dollar, June 2013)

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International collaboration is rising

Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2013)

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International collaboration leads to increase of Field Weighted Citation Index

Source: Scopus data, Article, Review, Conference Papers only (May 2013)

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How to find collaborators?

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Our profiling strategy

Unlike the competition that relies completely on manual input from users, our strategy with regard to author disambiguation is to algorithmically produce the best qualitative profiles possible for every single author captured in Scopus.

And, at the same time provide easy to use tools to the researchers community to feed back their manual input to increase the accuracy of their respective profiles.

Scopus profiles are:• Comprehensive (~18M Author and 8.5M Affiliation Profiles)• Easy to integrate (via RSS or the Scopus APIs)• Widely used (interoperable with ORCID, VIVO)• Algorithmically created and can be manually updated and

corrected

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The most powerful

ALGORITHMICdata processing in the industry

MANUAL feedback via the Author Feedback

Wizard

Groups papers to a profile with high degree of accuracy based on matching of name, email, affiliation, subject area, citations, co-authors,...

Combines the starting point from the algorithm profiles and the manual feedback to create the most accurate profiles with the least effort.

Scopus Author Profiles

The Universe of Research

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Scopus metadata that is used in algorithmic Author Profile creation:• Title• Abstract• Author, Co-Author• Citations• Keywords• Affiliation• Department (if available)• Source• ASJC classification• Publication date

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Scopus Author Profile Page (new format coming this month)

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And Author feedback got easier and faster…• Of the 8,634 requests processed in April.

• 7,411 incidents were Author Profile requests submitted via the Wizard. The average turnaround time for these 7,411 requests was 2.92 days.

- 5,472 Wizard requests could be processed automatically via automatic workflow

- 1,939 Wizard requests needed manual intervention- 53 Wizard requests did not fully appear online and were completely or

partly rejected.

Direct link to author feedback wizard: www.scopusfeedback.com

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Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

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Many researchers that too closely resemble one another.

Dr. Smith Dr. Smith Dr. Smith

Researchers publish under name variations.

Dr. SmithDr. J. SmithDr. James Smith

What is the Challenge? Scholarly Name Ambiguity

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What is the solution? ORCID!

ORCID, the Original Researcher Contributor ID, provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.

Dr. James Smith46533489

Dr. SmithDr. J. SmithDr. James Smith

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ORCID has been gaining users – and using Elsevier systems!

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How is Elsevier involved with ORCID?

• Elsevier is one of the industry sponsors of the ORCID initiative, and has representation on the Board

• EES (EVISE), Elsevier Editorial System, has integrated with ORCID to capture (and assign) ORCIDs at the time of submission

• Scopus allows users to import papers from Scopus to ORCID (or vice versa) and has other functionality related to ORCID

- Add to ORCID is on Author Profile page- ORCID will appear on Author Profile page as of May 2014 release- Will be able to search on ORCID as of September 2014 release

• Ensure interoperability between ORCID and Scopus Author ID• Ensure ORCID data enhances the quality of Scopus author profiles• Enable use of ORCIDs during Manuscript submission

Three main goals:

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Russia is in top 5 of countries using Scopus to claim articles for their ORCID profile (Feb – April 2014)

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Who is using Scopus data?

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Scopus penetration per country (2012 Analysis, by customer count)

Low PenetrationMid-level PenetrationHigh Penetration

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88%

12%

Leading research institutes use Scopus

Name of Institute CountryMassachusetts Institute of Technology USHarvard University US University of Cambridge UKUniversity College London UKImperial College London UKUniversity of Oxford UKStanford University USYale University USUniversity of Chicago USCalifornia Institute of Technology USPrinceton University USETH Zurich SwitzerlandUniversity of Pennsylvania USColumbia University USCornell University USJohns Hopkins University US University of Edinburgh UKUniversity of Toronto CanadaEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne SwitzerlandKing’s College London UK

Scopus

Non-Scopus

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Leading organizations rely on Scopus

Australian Research Council

150 funding bodies use Scopus data

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Custom analytics

For an overview of all custom reports, see: http://info.scival.com/resource-library

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Journal Metrics

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Differences in citation potential between fields

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More accuracy, transparency, more metrics

www.journalmetrics.com/

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SNIP: Source-normalized impact per paper

Journal RIP Cit. Pot. SNIP (RIP/Cit. Pot.)Inventiones Mathematicae 1.5 0.4 3.8

Molecular Cell 13.0 3.2 4.0

All 20K journals have a Source-normalized impact per paper (SNIP) measuring contextual citation impact by weighting citations per subject field

raw impact per paper (RIP)

Citation potential in its subject field

+ + +- Peer-reviewed papers only- Field’s frequency and immediacy of citation- Database coverage- Journal’s scope and focus- Measured relative to database median

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SJR: SCImago Journal Rank

All 20K journals have a SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are equal

Life Sciences journal

High impact, lots of citationsOne citation = low value

Arts & Humanities journal

Low impact, few on citationsOne citation = high value

SJR normalizes for differences in citation behaviour between subject fields

Prestige transferred when a journal cites• Citations are weighted depending on where they come from• A journal’s prestige is shared equally between its citations

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Article Level Metrics

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Reputable Publishers use Scopus data toprovide key assessment metrics

More than 5,000 publishers are indexed in Scopus. Many use Scopus data and APIs to present journal, article and citation information to the researcher community.

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Integration of article level metrics into Scopus

Mendeley readershipStatistics shows how many times Mendeley users have downloaded a specific article to their libraries.

Altmetric is way to see all of the social or mainstream media mentions gathered for a particular paper as well as reader counts on popular reference managers

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Summary

International collaboration is rising and leads to increase of FWCI.

Scopus Author Profiles are algorithmically created and we work with you and the research community to make improvements in order to find potential collaborators.

ORCID is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and is integrated in Scopus.

Scopus and Scopus data is being used by researchers, publishers and leading institutions to inform decisions about research output and research assessment.

Journal and article level metrics are available in Scopus and help researchers and research organizations to evaluate research and researchers.

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