Version: March 2018

Discover, Analyze, and Read for

Research
Scopus | ScienceDirect | Research Metrics

Kelwalin D.
Customer Consultant Elsevier South East Asia
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Agenda

Find the articles

Read the articles

Prepare to publish your manuscript

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01 Find the articles
Research Workflow
• This is a good research topic?
• How does it linked to the previous findings?
• It sounds familiar….. Did I read something similar before?
• How do I know it is a good reference?
Scopus is a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by
independent subject matter experts.

Identify and analyze which

82 million+ journals to read/submit to
Items
Track and assess a researcher’s
impact

25,751+ Decide what, where and with

1.7 billion cited references
Serial titles whom to collaborate
dating back to 1970

Track impact of research and

234,000+ monitor global research trends
Books
7,000+ Find the current research; what has been
Publishers published in a research area
80,000 17 million
Affiliation profiles Author profiles
Determine how to differentiate
research topics, find ideas

Scopus places powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of

researchers, librarians, institutional research managers and funders.
Global Representation means global discovery
Across all subjects and content types

Number of
journals by
subject area** Journals Conference Books
Scopus includes content from
Physical 24,272 101K 60K more than 5,000 publishers
sciences Peer-reviewed Conference events Volumes and 105 different countries
13,525 journals
10.2M 788 • 40 different languages covered
Health 270 Conference papers Books series
• Updated daily
sciences Trade journals Mainly Engineering,
14,583 mathematics, physics and
1.9M • Multiple regional content types
5,859 computer sciences Items covered (journals, conferences,
Active gold open books, book series)
Social access journals 230,000+
sciences Stand-alone books • 10.6M open access documents
12,837 >8,000 Mainly social sciences
Articles in press and arts & humanities
Life sciences Full metadata, abstracts
7,379 and cited references

* Numbers as of August 2020. ** Journals may be in multiple subject areas

Use of Concept Map

A concept map is used to organize and track your thought process

- Used to develop a vocabulary around a research topic.

- Used to narrow your research focus.

- Used to build search queries that will locate materials in

databases or the library catalogue.

Step 1 and 2: Set Up a Concept Map and Collect Terms

Topic for this exercise:

Treatment Options for Diabetics in Developing
Countries
Use of Concept Map (cont.)

Step 3: Group Related Terms and Narrow the Research Topic

• As you read and collect information, group terms based on themes
- The concept map contains terms related to diabetic treatments,
horticulture, socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle

• Determine which group you are most interested in exploring in depth

- Reading and marking the idea of treating diabetes using medicinal
plants arose as a point of interest.
- All terms that relate to diabetes and medicinal plans are highlighted in
green.

• Narrow your research topic to reflect your new focus

- The idea in the topic box of the concept map was refined based on the
new research focus. Going forward, research will focus on how
medicinal plants offer viable treatment options to Type 2 diabetics in
developing countries.
Step 4: Eliminate Terms that Do Not Support your Research Focus
• Take a moment to edit your concept map and remove all terms that do
not provide information about the updated research topic.
Explore the article
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• Click to download PDF
• or read it at Publisher website

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Use of Concept Map (cont.)

Step 5: Add New Terms Based on Focused Reading and Research

• As you continue to read about your topic, collect new terms

that relate to your narrowed research focus

• To learn more about medicinal plants and treatment options,

use hyperlinks from Medicinal Plant articles, and/or citing
documents and cited documents of Medicinal Plant articles to
consult. Terms from these sources are highlighted on the
concept map in blue. They replace the keywords that were
eliminated during step 4.
Use of Concept Map (cont.)

Step 6: Combine Terms to Craft Database Search Queries

• Each database provides access to a variety of sources (e.g. book chapters,
journals, and peer reviewed articles).

• Databases describe content in different ways. Materials are tagged with

keywords based on the taxonomy built into the database. Essentially, a
taxonomy is a vocabulary used to describe a subject, author, or research topic.
Search queries are formulas that tell the database how to pull information.

• To craft search queries, look at your concept map and think about how terms
can be combined to pull articles related to your topic.

• For the purposes of this lesson, we will combine the terms “medicinal crop*”
AND “anti-diabetic potential”

• Use boolean searches if possible

Navigating Scopus
Example:

Build Concept
Map

Enter Search Queries

“Intrinsically Unstructured Protein” OR

“Intrinsically Disorder Protein”

Field of research: Chemistry, biochemistry,

biology
 Result – then what next?

Is the result relevant ?

No!
Too much noises 
• Edit you search : choose new
keywords or build new search
queries.
• Refine results : choose subject
Click to read more information
area, year, country, etc.

Export citations or citing documents

or
Analyze result to see the trend
Result – The analysis

• Which country, institute,

funders, or author is the biggest
contributor?

• Which journals published

research in this topics?

• Which subject areas it’s

relevant to?
Search library
Build you knowledge with ScienceDirect
and with help from your librarians

1. Explore the latest selections

Select area of your

research to read
latest and hottest
updates.
Search library
Look for something specifically?
ScienceDirect and librarians can help you.

2. Search for articles

Select
then
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me
for offline
reading
Article page
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To read offline
AI-picked articles

Contact the author is

just one click away

To add to To reference
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To Social Media, Email

Citing articles

Understand new
vocabulary with Topic
Page link

Open
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02 Read the articles
 I need help on vocabulary: ScienceDirect’s Topic Page:

1 Clear definitions 2 More terms to further discover

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Links to book chapters

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Check quality of articles
Article-level metrics in ScienceDirect

Citation/citing articles

PlumX metrics
 Check quality of articles
Article-level metrics in Scopus

Article-level metrics (ALMs) quantify the reach and

impact of published research.

ALMs seek to incorporate data from new sources

(such as social media mentions) along with
traditional measures (such as citations) to present a
richer picture of how an individual article is being
discussed, shared, and used.

• Citation

• Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

• PlumX Metrics

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 Which papers cited this work?

Citations
• Citation counts how many time the
particular article is used as reference.

• The more citations received, the more

published article referred to your article and
made use of knowledge you built.

How many
papers cited
this work?
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
Comparing with similar document,
is this article popular?
• Field-Weighted Citation Impact shows how well cited this
document is when compared to similar documents.

• The FWCI is the ratio. A value greater than 1.00 means the
document is more cited than expected according to the
average.

It takes into account:

•The year of publication - three-year window
•Document type, and
•The disciplines associated with its source.
PlumX
PlumX Metrics are comprehensive, item-level metrics that
provide insights into the ways people interact with individual
pieces of research output:
• Visualizes scholarly engagement
• Includes 5 categories of metrics
• Designed to communicate engagement without a score

Metrics
Categories
USAGE CAPTURES
(clicks, downloads, views, library (bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
holdings, video plays) readers, watchers)

MENTIONS SOCIAL MEDIA CITATIONS

(blog posts, comments, (citation indexes, patent
(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
reviews, Wikipedia links) citations, clinical citations)
 Benchmark metrics of this article with others
from the same journal by percentile

Read each
metrics in detail
03 Checking Journal’s Quality
Research Workflow
 Define Target Journals
on Scopus

I want to find the target journal for

my manuscript

Open Scopus.com
Select Publisher and/or Research Area

Select options from

dropdown menu
Filter For The Quality

Maker sure you select

correct year/latest year

Where do you want to present

your work?

Define your target

• I want to publish my manuscript in
a journal See all journal-level metrics
and other information
• And the journal must be indexed
in Scopus in quartile 1 or 2.

**please note that quartile is

based on CiteScore.
Explore the result offline :
How to download the list?
Explore the result online :
Journal – level metrics:
• CiteScore
• SNIP
• SJR

• Percentile
• Rank
• Research area

Journal Title
• Click for more details
 Understanding research metrics

Citations in a year to documents published in 4 years Journal’s citation count per paper Average # of weighted citations received in a year
---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# of documents in 4 years Citation potential in its subject field # of documents published in previous 3 years

CiteScore SNIP SJR

• CiteScore itself is an average of the sum of the • SNIP = Sourced Normalized Impact per • SJR = SCImago Journal Rank
Paper
citations received in a given year to • SJR is a measure of the scientific influence of
• SNIP accounts for field-specific differences scholarly journals that accounts for both the
publications published in 4 years divided by in citation practices. number of citations received by a journal and the
the sum of publications in the same 4 years. importance or prestige of the journals where the
• measures contextual citation impact and citations come from.
• Takes 4 years (including current year) into enables direct comparison of journals in
different subject fields • SJR weights each incoming citation to a journal by
account. the SJR of the citing journal, with a citation from a
• Outlier scores are closer to average high-SJR source counting for more than a citation
• Takes 3 years into account. from a low-SJR source.
• Takes 3 years into account.
Read Metrics on Source Details Page

An article in Journal of
International Economics got
cited 4.8 times as an
average in 2019.

Citation weighting depends

on subject field and prestige
of Economics is 3.761 times
better than other journals.

Citations received by articles

in Journal of International
Economics is 3.179 times
better than citation expected
to be received by the journal
in the same subject field.
More on CiteScore

Read CiteScore of selected

year or current year.
Also see how it is calculated.

Out of all 288 journals in

Finance, Journal of
International Economics rank
Journal of International
31st Therefore, has percentile
Economics is also in
at 89th (Q1 Journal).
Econimics category.
• Can you read its rank,
percentile and quartile?
More on CiteScore

Select research area to see the

rank of this journal comparing with
others in the list. See 5 years trends
of this journal.

Out of all 288 journals in Finance,

Journal of International Economics
rank 31st Therefore, has percentile
at 89th (Q1 Journal).
But what if I still have so many options?

• List out journals you want to

compare the metrics, then click on
Compare Sources to benchmark
them.

Open Scopus.com
Using Compare Sources to benchmark selected journals

Which journal is the best for me?

• Compare them using different metrics
• Select options of metrics you want to read

Select journals by
• Titles/ ISSN/ Publisher
• Subject area
 As an average, Red Journal
Example: got highest number of citation.

Blue Journal has highest citation

counts however it may also due to
high number of documents
published each year.

Blue and Green Journal has

low % of document not cited.
• Publish in these journal
ensure that your article is
All journals received expected likely to be cited.
citations more than average in
the same subject field.

Red Journal has high number

If I’m going to publish a research article, All journals received citations of review articles.
Blue Journal may be a good choice for me. (weighted depends on subject
field and prestige) more than
average.
05 Elsevier’s Supports
Elsevier’s Journals: Top Scholarly Outputs

CiteScore: 7.1 CiteScore: 8.6 CiteScore: 73.4 CiteScore: 2.8 CiteScore: 4.4 CiteScore: 8.8

CiteScore: 9.9 CiteScore: 10.9 CiteScore: 8.7 CiteScore: 5.4 CiteScore: 7.6 CiteScore: 9.6

CiteScore: 7.2 CiteScore: 6.7 CiteScore: 6.2 CiteScore: 3.7

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CiteScore: 1.5 CiteScore: 0.25 CiteScore: 3.3 FWCI: 1.35 FWCI: 2.18 FWCI: 2.43

CiteScore: 0.9 CiteScore: 2.8 CiteScore: 5.0 FWCI: 1.33 FWCI: 0.95

CiteScore: 7.0 FWCI: 1.34

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