SciVerse Scopus: Content coverage and title selection

Dr Wim J.N. Meester

Senior Product Manager

Moscow, 18 May 2010

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”

Scopus: Scanning the horizon for quality research

Scopus: a broader view on Science

Broadest source for research answers

17,500Peer reviewed journals

400Trade journals

300Book series

A rich and extended coverage including

> 18,500titles

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.,

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

Breadth of coverage Russia

Russian Other language

Number of documents in Scopuswith Russian country affiliation in 2006 – 2010

187 Russian titles in Scopus

Publication types

Bio-Medicine

PhysicalSciences

Engineering Social Sciences

Humanities All Sciences

Adding other content types in subject areas where it matters most

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”

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

Broader coverage = higher citations

Exponential growth of academic/scholarly journals

Ulrichsweb.com June 2010

505

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

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

Quality selection by independent, international board

Scopus new title suggestions

http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/content-selection

Technical criteria

Eligibility

• Peer-review

• English abstracts

• Regular publication

• References in Roman script

• Publication ethics and malpractice statement

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

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

Top 25 countries suggested titles 2008-2011

Under review

Not for review

Reviewed

(n=6156)

Top 25 countries reviewed titles (2011)

Rejected

Accepted

(n=232)

Scholarly titles from the Russian Federation

(20%)

(13%)

Under review by CSABSuggested for review

AcceptedNot accepted for review

Rejected

Pro-active: Social Sciences and A&H comparison study

ERIH (5,186)

AERES(5,116)

Francis(2,344)

Cairn(219)

1,200

Comprehensiveness

Adding Publishers’ archives (> 2,650 titles)

Planned:

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

Tools to improve user experience

Datasets

Thank You

Scholarly titles from Spain

(14%)

(4%)

Under review by CSABSuggested for review

AcceptedNot accepted for review

Rejected

Local initiatives: FECYT (Spain)