Scopus: If you can t be found, you don t exist

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1 1 Scopus: If you can t be found, you don t exist Susanne Steiginga, MSc. Product Manager Scopus Content December 15, 2016 The 11 th TCI Symposium on Thai Scholarly Journals and The 4 th ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Steering Committee Meeting 2 What is on the agenda of today? How is Thailand doing in the international research community? What Thai content does Scopus cover? What we do to ensure that Scopus content is of the best quality standard: content selection policy Scopus content continues to be trustable: Ongoing data quality and content curation initiatives CiteScore, Scopus free journal metric gives validated and transparent insights into serial performance The rule of three

2 3 How is Thailand doing in the international research community? 4 Scholarly output (Article and Reviews) Scholarly output in Thailand is increasing over the years to nearly 10 thousand documents per year. However Thailand is still lagging behind comparator countries, but ahead of Vietnam and the Philippines. Source: SciVal data, Articles and Reviews only (November 2016)

3 5 International collaboration (Article and Reviews) International collaboration is increasing for Singapore and staying at par for surrounding countries. 45% Of all Thai research has been published via an international collaboration. Source: SciVal data, Articles and Reviews only (November 2016) 6 International collaboration leads to increase of Field Weighted Citation Impact Collaboration FWCI Country FWCI Co-authored publications Thailand FWCI = Malaysia , Philippines Singapore Vietnam USA , Congo Source: SciVal (November 2016)

4 7 What content do we cover in Scopus? 8 Scopus includes content from more than 5,000 publishers and 105 different countries 65M records from 22K serials, 97K conferences and 135K books Updated daily More accurate and complete citation data pre different languages covered 3,476 Active Gold Open Access journals indexed JOURNALS CONFERENCES BOOKS Physical Sciences 11,865 Health Sciences 12,992 Social Sciences 10,158 Life Sciences 6,394 21,868 peer-reviewed journals 322 trade journals Full metadata, abstracts and cited references 97.1K conference events 7.7M conference papers Mainly Engineering and Computer Sciences 558 book series 34K Volumes / 1.3M items 135,301 stand-alone books >1.1M items Focus on Social Sciences and A&H Source: October 2016 title list at

5 9 Unbiased, comprehensive journal coverage with titles from many reputable scholarly publishers 11% 7% 5% 4% 2% 1% Other 60% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% Source: May 2016 title list at 1% 10 Thai content coverage in Scopus and WoS

6 11 Overall Content Comparison with Web of Science ~22K titles >5,000 publishers Updated daily Scopus 22,409 (+80%) Web of Science 12,459 ~12K titles (Core Collection), (18,000 with ESCI) 3,300 publishers Updated weekly Scopus 7,450 (+69%) Scopus 6,822 (+91%) Scopus 4,532 (+48%) Scopus 8,233 (+96%) WoS 4,408 WoS 3,577 WoS 3,052 WoS 4,202 Physical Sciences Health Sciences Life Sciences Social Sciences Source: Web of Science Real Facts, Web of Science Core Collection title list and Scopus own data (May 2016) Breadth of coverage in Thailand (articles) Articles with Thailand country affiliation YTD 12 16,000 14,000 Overall numbers of articles in Scopus vs. WoS 12,000 10,000 40,428 54,278 8,000 6,000 4,000 Scopus Wos 2, Source: Scopus and WoS data December YTD Scopus WoS 2,584 Articles from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok

7 13 What we do to ensure that Scopus content is of the best quality standard: content selection policy 14 Coverage of high quality journals via selection by the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) The CSAB is an independent board of subject experts from all over the world. Board members are chosen for their expertise in specific subject areas; many have (journal) Editor experience Titles are selected for Scopus inclusion by the CSAB.

8 15 Transparent Scopus selection criteria for serial content All titles should meet all minimum criteria in order to be considered for Scopus review: Peer-review English abstracts Regular publication Roman script references Pub. ethics statement Eligible titles are reviewed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board according to a combination of 14 quantitative and qualitative selection criteria: Journal Policy Quality of Content Journal Standing Regularity Online Availability Convincing editorial concept/policy Type of peer-review Diversity geographic distribution of editors Diversity geographic distribution of authors Academic contribution to the field Clarity of abstracts Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope Readability of articles Citedness of journal articles in Scopus Editor standing No delay in publication schedule Content available online English-language journal home page Quality of home page or titlesuggestion@scopus.com Webinar with more information on Scopus content selection criteria : 16 Less than half of the reviewed titles are selected for Scopus coverage The CSAB is selective and strict on quality: in total 5,411 titles reviewed ( ) of which 2,587 (48%) accepted for Scopus ±15,000 Suggestions (±3,000 Serials per year suggested) ±5,000 (33%) Meet Scopus minimum criteria ±5,000 Reviewed by CSAB <50% Accepted Based on data from October 2016.

9 17 Scopus content continues to be trustable: Ongoing data quality and content curation initiatives 18 Data curation and focus on quality Source: Find more information on Scopus its Discontinued Sources List :

10 19 Ongoing content curation of the Scopus base to ensure continuous high quality content Curation of the full journal base is essential and expected by our customers and users. Direct feedback from users and stakeholders on poor performing journals Identification of poor performing journals using metrics and benchmarks Radar to predict journals with outlier performance Review: Re-evaluation by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) Curate: Content Curation Re-evaluation results >22,000 Journals in Scopus database 300 Journals underperformed for 2 sequential years, or concerns were raised 100% Reevaluated by CSAB to date 60% Discontin ued All journal publishers will be informed by Scopus of the Re-evaluation outcome of their journal in December If discontinued = Journal forward flow discontinued per January 1, For more information:

11 21 CiteScore, the free journal metric for all 22 Two Golden Rules for using research metrics When used correctly, research metrics together with qualitative input give a balanced, multi-dimensional view for decision-making Always use both qualitative and quantitative input into your decisions Always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input

12 23 Filling the gap in the Scopus basket of journal metrics SNIP and SJR with CiteScore and associated metrics Compensates for differences in field, type and age Meaningful benchmark is built in 1 is average for a subject area Large number Simple, easy to validate Communicates magnitude of activity People may not like small numbers Complicated; difficult to validate No idea of magnitude: how many citations does it represent? Affected by differences in field, type and age Meaningless without additional benchmarking CiteScore is a simple metric for all Scopus serials A A CiteScore 2015 value = B B CiteScore A = citations to 3 years of documents B = all documents indexed in Scopus, same as A Impact Factor A = citations to 2 or 5 years of documents B = only citable items (articles and reviews), different from A Note: at launch, December 8, 2016, all titles in the May 2016 title list, and with some documents indexed in 2016, will have CiteScore metrics.

13 25 Free webiste: Static values for reporting, showcasing and exporting Scopus.com: transparency, trends, and tracking current performance 1. CiteScore tab 26

14 27 Scopus.com: transparency, trends, and tracking current performance 2. CiteScore rank and trend tab 28 Scopus.com: transparency, trends, and tracking current performance 3. Scopus content coverage tab

15 29 How does CiteScore compare to the Impact Factor? 30 Advantages of CiteScore metrics Comprehensive Transparent Current Based on Scopus, the world s broadest abstract and citation database CiteScore metrics will be available for all serial titles, not just journals CiteScore metrics could be calculated for portfolios CiteScore metrics will be available for free CiteScore metrics are easy to calculate for yourself The underlying database is available for you to interrogate CiteScore Tracker is updated monthly New titles will have CiteScore metrics the year after they are indexed in Scopus

16 31 Journals with CiteScore cover all levels of performance ,256 titles have CiteScore ,620 titles have CiteScore Tracker Number of journals LOW All CS %iles JIF %iles Unique CS %iles HIGH 32 Main take aways: The rule of three Scopus broad and deep content coverage gives a comprehensive view on global research. Scopus has a transparent content selection process and together with content curation makes sure the content continues to meet high quality standards. CiteScore, Scopus free journal metric gives you transparent, current and comprehensive view on journal performance.

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18 35 The power of Scopus data & National Science Foundation (NSF) Source: Less than half of the reviewed titles are selected for Scopus coverage 100% In total 5,411 titles reviewed ( ) of which 2,587 (48%) accepted for Scopus Title review results from top 20 countries with most titles reviewed in the last 5 years: 90% 80% 70% % % 40% % % 10% %. Accepted Rejected

19 37 Keeping track of suggested titles As a primary publisher and information aggregator, Elsevier understands the needs of Authors, Editors and Publishers and provides resources to support the community: Review comments and FAQs from CSAB Publication ethics resources Editor sections on Elsevier.com Publishing services Research Trends and Editor Update Newsletters Scopus Title Suggestion Tracker 38 Why add CiteScore metrics to the basket?

20 39 Each metric provides a complementary measure of performance Measures Validation in Scopus? Sizenormalized? Subject fieldnormalized? CiteScore Citations per document Yes Yes No Yes CiteScore Percentile Citation Count Document Count %cited SNIP Relative position within subject field based on CiteScore Raw impact of a journal on the research community Raw scale of a title within the research community Consistency with which a title s contents are reliably cited Relative citations per document Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No SJR Prestige of citing sources No Yes Yes No Communicates magnitude? Update frequency Annually, and monthly for CiteScore Tracker metrics Annually 40 CiteScore 2015 correlates 75% with Impact Factor Impact Factor and 2015 CiteScore Impact Factor R² = CiteScore 2015

21 41 Comparison of CiteScore, CiteScore Tracker and Impact Factor Desirable characteristic CiteScore CiteScore Tracker Impact Factor Metric measures citations per document Simple method Annual snapshot for reporting purposes Document type consistency (num. and denom.) Fair compromise for all fields 3y citation window Derivative metric addresses disciplinary differences Ongoing inclusion of error correction Available for all serials indexed (not only journals) New titles have the metric next calendar year Tracking view for verification and decision making Metric is current updated monthly It s calculated from the same database I use Metric and derivative metrics are free I can use a free widget on my webpage Journal-level evaluation functionality is free Underlying database available to verify calculation Replicate strong characteristics Improved methodology Comprehensive Current Transparent