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New on Scopus: Link to datasets, search funding acknowledgements and find more CiteScore transparency

on Tue, 03/28/2017 - 22:32

March has been an especially busy month for Scopus and to complete the month, we’ve introduced the following changes:

To learn more details about these changes, follow along below. Click on images to expand.

A special note for librarians at SciVal institutions: You can now can use Scopus

Release Date: 
March 29 2017

Scopus currently experiencing issues

on Mon, 03/27/2017 - 22:56

Users may be experiencing issues loading certain pages in Scopus. Work is underway to resolve this issue and we will continue to update this blog and Twitter (@Scopus) as updates are available. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. 

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Elsevier is bringing the SciVal and Scopus community together for knowledge sharing and networking

on Tue, 03/21/2017 - 17:13

Elsevier is bringing the SciVal and Scopus community together for two days of updates, knowledge sharing and networking. The inaugural SciVal and Scopus European User Conference is taking place in the majestic city of Amsterdam at the EYE Film Institute. This event is free to attend for SciVal and Scopus users from European academic institutions and corporates.

Scopus is experiencing issues with outward linking and certain link resolvers

on Fri, 03/03/2017 - 19:48

Status Update: The issue that was affecting the outward linking and certain link resolvers has now been repaired. Thank you for your patience!

Original message: Scopus is currently experiencing issues with outward linking and certain link resolvers. Work is underway to resolve this issue and we will continue to update this blog and twitter (@Scopus) as updates are available. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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Get to the right information faster with Scopus search results page improvements

on Wed, 03/01/2017 - 03:53

Beginning last September, the look and feel of Scopus has been gradually changing. For a re-cap of what changed in both September and December of last year (including changes to the main search pages), please refer to the following posts:

This month includes changes to the document search result page, including the ability to create unique names when you save a search, making it easier to identify and organize your saved searches.

Release Date: 
March 2 2017

Eugene Garfield, information scientist: 1925-2017

on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 14:09

Eugene Garfield, information scientist: 1925-2017

It is with sadness that we learned this week of the passing of Eugene Garfield, widely regarded as the father of citation indexing and of the modern field of scientometrics, the quantitative study of the scientific literature.

Research Intelligence Case Studies: A look into the challenges universities overcome using Scopus, SciVal and Pure

on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 23:52

Contributed by: Kelsey Grentzer

Over the past year, Elsevier’s Research Intelligence team interviewed dozens of research leaders from around the world to capture their stories about the challenges their institutions face and how they are able to overcome them using Scopus, SciVal and Pure.

Cited references in Scopus go back to 1970: A quick look at the impact on h-index

on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 23:37

Over the past 3 years, Scopus content has significantly increased in depth. In addition to already including content records back to 1823, Scopus has added over 160 million cited references to its database, dating back to 1970. This allows you to construct long-term, extensive bibliometric and historic trend analyses, and has resulted in more complete author profiles and h-index measurements for individuals who began publishing prior to 1996.

How to explore, compare and track journal citation impact with CiteScore metrics

on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 16:52

In January, we held a webinar on CiteScore metrics – not only providing an overview of what CiteScore metrics are, but also showing you how to access and use the new metrics. In case you missed it, the recorded webinar is available for you to view here. Take some time to learn about why CiteScore was created, how it is calculated and what it brings to the overall basket of metrics.      

Additionally, follow these tips to get

How researchers at R&D organizations use Scopus to overcome challenges

on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 22:52

Contributed by: Alexandra Kahn

To better understand how Scopus helps to support research and development outcomes, and pass that information along to you, we recently surveyed R&D organizations that use Scopus.

Whether to stay abreast of scientific developments, develop new ideas quicker, keep ahead of the competition, or find key experts and opinion leaders, organizations have found Scopus enables their R&D researchers to

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