April 2019

Funding Acknowledgement Information Available for 11 Million Articles

Submitted by Rachel McCullough
on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 20:17

Scopus allows users to search the funding acknowledgement section of ~11 million documents, making it simple to find previously funded research.

Why is previously awarded funding data important?

  • It enables researchers to see what research has been funded by whom in order to prepare for their own grant submissions; and to support a current grant application by showing information about previous performance
  • It enables institutions and funders to determine how much research is associated with

Join our webinar on Scopus APIs on Tuesday 7 May

Submitted by Rachel McCullough
on Wed, 04/24/2019 - 23:08

Click here to register for our free webinar, on Tuesday 7 May, co-presented by Bill Mischo, Head of the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Matt Direnzo, Senior Elsevier Product Manager.

Scopus captures articles being published in virtually all scholarly journals of any significance in the world; and its profiling of authors and institutions makes it easy to find new articles by those authors at those institutions.

Check out CiteScore Tracker to see how a title’s CiteScore is building each month

Submitted by Rachel McCullough
on Thu, 04/25/2019 - 18:50

Scopus is a source neutral, expertly curated abstract and citation database, making it well positioned to enable users to discover and analyze the world of research.

CiteScore metrics, which measure the impact of thousands of journals by calculating the average number of citations per article over a three-year period, can help researchers determine which journals they should publish in.