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Scopus
ProducerElsevier (Netherlands)
History10 November 2004;19 years ago(2004-11-10)
Languages40 languages
Access
ProvidersElsevier
CostSubscription
Coverage
DisciplinesLife sciences; social sciences; physical sciences; health sciences
Record depth41,462 indexed titles (2021)
Format coveragecsv, BibText, ASCII, RIS
Temporal coverage1788–present
Geospatial coverageWorldwide
No.of records82.4 million
Update frequencydaily
Links
Websitewww.scopus
Title list(s)www.scopus/sources

Scopusis anabstract and citation databaselaunched by the academic publisherElsevierin 2004.[1]

Journals in Scopus are reviewed for sufficient quality each year according to four numerical measures:h-Index,CiteScore,SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP (source normalized impact per paper). For this reason, the journals listed in Scopus are considered to meet the requirement forpeer reviewquality established by severalresearch grantagencies for their grant recipients and bydegree-accreditation boards in a number of countries.[2]

Scopus also allows patent searches in a dedicated patent database,Lexis-Nexis,albeit with limited functionality.[3]

Overview[edit]

Comparing ease of use and coverage of Scopus and theWeb of Science(WOS), a 2006 study concluded that "Scopus is easy to navigate, even for the novice user.... The ability to search both forward and backward from a particular citation would be very helpful to the researcher. The multidisciplinary aspect allows the researcher to easily search outside of his discipline" and "One advantage of WOS over Scopus is the depth of coverage, with the full WOS database going back to 1945 and Scopus going back to 1966. However, Scopus and WOS complement each other as neither resource is all-inclusive."[4]A small number of studies found ca. 80-90% overlap in coverage between WoS and Scopus for the period between 1990 and 2020.

In terms of thestructured query languagesearch capabilities Scopus is somewhat more advanced thanWeb of Science:for example, WoS can perform only NEAR/n queries, Scopus can also do PRE/n queries.[5]

Also, when the same article is covered in Scopus and in theWeb of Science(WoS), its Scopus entry has a 3-5 larger number of keywords than its WoS coverage, and the Scopus keywords are more focused on the specific article content, whereas WoS has more keywords related to the broad category of the article's subject. A larger number of narrow-targeted keywords allows Scopus users to find a larger number of relevant publications, while filtering out false positives. On the other hand, WoS exports (e.g. in therisformat) thedoinumbers of cited articles, while Scopus exports the titles of cited articles. Also, Scopus allows exporting 20,000 references (e.g. as a ris file) at once, while WoS export is limited to 5,000 references at once. On the other hand, WoS exports the doi's of cited references, while Scopus exports the titles of cited references.

Scopus provides chemical search byCAS numberand by chemical name, while WoS does not have these features. On the other hand, WoS has chemical structure search, but only a small number of publications are actually indexed for chemical structure searches.SciFinderis the preferred option for chemical searches is all cases.

Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and theirbibliographicdata,references,and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It has alerting features that allow registered users to track changes to a profile and a facility to calculate authors'h-index.In 2016, a gratis website, Scopus CiteScore,[6]was introduced. It provides citation data for all 25,000+ active titles such as journals, conference proceedings and books in Scopus and provides an alternative to theimpact factor,ajournal-levelindicator which may correlate negatively with reliability.[7]

Scopus IDs for individual authors can be integrated with the non-proprietary digital identifierORCID.[8]

In 2018, Scopus started embedding partial information about theopen accessstatus of works, usingUnpaywalldata.[9]However, Scopus' ris export files do not contain the information aboutOpen Accessstatus.

Content selection and advisory board[edit]

SinceElsevieris the owner of Scopus and is also one of the main international publishers of scientific journals, an independent and international Scopus Content Selection and advisory board (CSAB) was established in 2009 to prevent a potential conflict of interest in the choice of journals to be included in the database and to maintain an open and transparent content coverage policy, regardless of publisher.[10]The board consists of scientists and subject librarians. Nevertheless, critique over a perceived conflict of interest has continued.[11]

CSAB team is responsible for inclusion and exclusion of different titles on Scopus. Since 2004, they have included 41,525 and excluded 688 titles[12]The re-evaluation policy is claimed to be based on four criteria of Publication Concern, Under Performance, Outlier Performance and Continuous curation. Since 2016, the CSAB has re-evaluated 990 titles published by 539 different publishers leading to 536 titles discontinued for inde xing.[13]Nevertheless, research continues to show the inclusion of predatory journals.[14][15]

While marketed as a global point of reference, Scopus and WoS have been characterised as "structurally biased against research produced in non-Western countries, non-English language research, and research from the arts, humanities, and social sciences".[16]

Derived citation metrics[edit]

See also:Source Normalized Impact per PaperandField-weighted Citation Impact

orScience-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

CiteScore[edit]

This section is an excerpt fromCiteScore.[edit]
Part ofa serieson
Citation metrics

CiteScore(CS) of anacademic journalis ameasurereflecting the yearly average number ofcitationsto recent articles published in that journal. It is produced byElsevier,based on the citations recorded in the Scopus database. Absoluterankingsandpercentile ranksare also reported for each journal in a given subject area.[17]

This journal evaluation metric was launched in December 2016 as an alternative to theJournal Citation Reports(JCR)impact factor(IF), calculated byClarivate.CiteScore is based on the citations collected for articles published in the preceding four years, instead of two or five in the JCR IF. This enhanced methodology was introduced with the release of CiteScore 2019 in June 2020. At launch, CiteScore's neutrality was questioned by bibliometrics experts likeCarl Bergstrom,who found it appeared to favour Elsevier's titles over Nature's.[18]

SCImago Journal Rank[edit]

This section is an excerpt fromSCImago Journal Rank.[edit]
Part ofa serieson
Citation metrics
TheSCImago Journal Rank(SJR) indicator is ameasureof the prestige ofscholarly journalsthat accounts for both the number ofcitationsreceived by a journal and the prestige of the journals where the citations come from.

Criticism[edit]

Recently, an investigation published by "Scholarly Criticism" uncovers that Elsevier is involved in unethical and unlawful practices of promoting its self-published journals by inde xing these journals in Scopus which is owned by Elsevier. This develops an interesting situation. According to the "Scholarly Criticism", Elsevier indexed its journal "Heliyon" (start year: 2015) in Scopus within a few months of its inception, without following its own rules prescribed for non-Elsevier journals, inde xing in Scopus with just one citation and four published issues in 2015. This is controversial because Scopus is considered as a credible resource to identify high quality journals by many universities, countries, and governments. It is important to mention that Heliyon charges an open access fee of USD 2,100 which is not a small amount. The report published by Scholarly Criticism cites evidence that this is a "violation" and "conflict of interest" of publishing ethics and moral principle.[19]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  16. ^Tennant, Jonathan P. (27 October 2020)."Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge".European Science Editing.46:e51987.doi:10.3897/ese.2020.e51987.ISSN2518-3354.
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