Following the latest platform release on January 23, 2010, Scopus will help solve the following challenges:

Two metrics broaden journal evaluation

“As a researcher I would like to get comprehensive data on journal performance so I can better judge what to read and where to publish. The Impact Factor is the only indicator and it is limited.”

“As a librarian I want to manage my collections more effectively by judging the value of all my journals. I also want to provide faculty with better insights into the content available to them.”

Scopus Journal Analyzer now includes two journal metrics – SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) - that broaden and deepen the scope of journal evaluation. Free of charge and available to all, these metrics cover journal prestige and contextual citation impact, providing comprehensive journal evaluation across all scientific disciplines. More information will be available on the Scopus info site in late January 2010. 
  

Find the downloadable SNIP & SJR values at www.journalmetrics.com 
 

Monitoring research output is simplified by Scopus API

“As a research manager the content provided by Scopus, such as author information, is increasingly important to me. I want to stay up-to-date with and highlight the impact of my researchers’ work.” 
 

The Scopus Application Programming Interface (API) - http://searchapi.scopus.com - enables the better integration of researchers’ publication information to internal institutional websites and systems where document, citation, author, and affiliation information is needed.  This could evolve into "mashups” with third party data sources."

For more information on how integrate with Scopus here.

Example: A possible API mashup would be the combination of geospatial and bibliographic information – Google Maps API with a Scopus API can visualize where research has been published.  

New user interface improves workflows

“As a researcher I’m faced with a more competitive research environment, meaning that I have more research to do in less time.”

“As a librarian I have less time for training and support and an increasing number of products to manage.”
 

Some changes are: 

• Ability to add more search fields  to give greater flexibility
• More details about what’s in Scopus and how to use it
• The results page now shows all abstracts by default. Option to hide all is possible
• Option to choose number of results to display in Refine Result View
• Direct link to the source title page from the results page - direct path to citation tracker and journal analyzer
   

The new user interface helps researchers to become even more efficient in finding the right information by reducing steps in the search process. It helps librarians because being more self-explanatory Scopus requires minimal training. Furthermore, the information zone on the Scopus homepage helps librarians to search for and build product knowledge.

 

Cited-by count integration made easier

“As a website administrator I want to enrich the scientific research content on my platform with minimal effort.”

The improved Cited-by Count Integration services will provide Scopus subscribers and non-subscribers with easier and more scalable ways of implementing Scopus citation counts to immediately enrich their platforms’ content. All a web administrator needs to do is paste a piece of JavaScript, supplied by Elsevier, into a page template that generates the link automatically.

 For more information on how integrate with Scopus here.

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