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Scopus as a Research ToolMarch 2012

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Why Scopus? A comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-

reviewed literature and quality web sources. Over 19,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide (90%

peer-reviewed journals). 46 million records Broadest coverage

Life Sciences (>4,300 titles) Physical Sciences (>7,200 titles) Health Sciences (>6,800 titles) Social Sciences and Humanities (>5,300 titles)

Sources: Europe (52%) North America (32%) Asia, Australia & Pacific (11%) South America (3%) Middle East & Africa (2%)

As a Citation Analysis Tool to evaluate: Authors, Institutions and Journals.

3Access via Library website: http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk/index_e-resources.php

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Search InterfaceScopus Search

Interface

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environmental education finds over 28,000 records

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Search Basics: Use Double Quotes to Search as Phrases

“environmental education” reduces results to under 3,400 records

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Search Basics: use “Keywords” instead of “Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords” for better precision

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“environmental education” as KEYWORDS reduces results to 2,000 records

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Refine the SearchTo Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas)

Add search field

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Refine the SearchTo Narrow Down Further: Add Search Terms; Set “Limit to” Options (by year / document type / subject areas)

(KEY("environmental education") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("primary school*" OR

"primary education")) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1999

58 Records Only

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At the Results Screens: you can also add Additional Search Terms, add Limit Fields

To do search within the result list

To limit the result by

category, e.g. author, year …

etc.

Refine the Search

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Sort the Results

At the Results Screens: you can also change the Sorting Order (the default order is by “Date”)

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Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article

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Citations : Find out who is citing a particular article

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Can I get the Full Text?

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Check EdLINK for Full Text Availability View at Publisher redirects you to publisher web

site but gives you free Full Text ONLY IF HKIEd has subscribed to this Journal

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Record Details

To export, print, email or create a bibliography, click

these links

Setup RSS Feed to receive citation alert

Find related documents

Alert you via e-mail when this document is cited. You can schedule it to run daily,

weekly or monthly.

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Output Records

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Output Records

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Personalization Features

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Personalization Features

Must register own ID and log in to take advantage of personalization features

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Personalization Features

With your personal SCOPUS Login, you can: Save your search history. Create your saved lists. Set up email keyword search alerts or

email citation alerts.

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Personalization Features

1. Save your search

1. Save your search

2. To view saved search in “My

settings”

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Edit Search Query

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Set Search Alert (Email)A Search Alert is a saved search that you can schedule to run daily, weekly or monthly. You will receive an e-mail

message with a link into Scopus to access the new results.

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Set Search Alert (RSS)When you subscribe to a Scopus RSS feed, you will get the top 20 search

results for your search delivered every day to your RSS reader. To use a

Scopus RSS feed you must have an RSS reader.

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Add to My ListAdd the selected documents to

My List

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Add to My List

Click “My list” to browse the saved records

To further manage your saved list

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Author Identifier &Citation Analysis

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Citation Analysis of an AuthorCitation Analysis of an Author: e.g. Michael Bond

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Citation Analysis of an Author

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Citation Analysis of an Author

To view the citation analysis

of this author

97 publications; cited over 3,500 times by over 2,800

documents

h-index (21) only counting articles

published from 1995 onwards

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Citation Analysis of an Author

Authors are evaluated on the basis of their body of work, which has been cited by articles published

from 1996 onwards in one of the 18,000 peer-reviewed journals in Scopus

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The h-index can be calculated manually by viewing all the author’s documents in the Citation Tracker.

Click on Sort documents and select Citations in descending. Then scroll down to where the rank of

articles and the number of cited-by’s meet: that’s the h-index for that author including documents

published from 1996 onwards.

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Definition of h-indexDefinition of h-indexAn author has index h if h of his papers have at least

h citations each and the other papers have no more than h citations each.

e.g. An author with an h-index of 20 means that each of 20 of his or her publications have been cited for 20 or more times.

For example The h-index for Bond, Michael Harris

(Considers Scopus articles published after 1996) = 21

(21 out of 82 documents have each been cited at least 21 times)

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Properties of the h-index Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter

physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace activist.

Easy to determine. Age of Author not taken into account.

Both junior and senior authors can have a high or low h-index.

Ignores the highly & poorly cited papers – ‘one-hit wonders’. Dynamic, not a static number – can change as citations

increase, real-time in Scopus. Can be used to measure : Authors, Journals, Institutions,

Departments, Faculties, Selection of Papers … etc. Details of h-index at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRkKc-FZPc

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Analyze Journal Using Journal Analyzer

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Journal Analyzer

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Journal Analyzer

Double click to select a journal title. A graph will appear on the other side showing citations, documents, etc. of the title. Up to 10 journal titles could be selected for comparison at a time.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. SJR chart weighted citations per documentSNIP = Source normalized impact per paper: corrects for differences in the frequency of citation across research fieldsCitations chart shows the total number of citations received by a journal in the year, considering all documents.Documents chart shows the total number of documents published in the journal in the year.

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

Institution to be analyzed

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Institution to be

analyzed

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

Click to browse all documents

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output Select all

records

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Analyze and Evaluate Institution Output

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