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Scopus Institutional Profile Wizard user interface redesign

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 19:21

A redesigned Scopus Institutional Profile Wizard (IPW) will be available to users this month.  The Scopus product and UX teams performed extensive user research and interviews; based on the insights gathered we designed a more intuitive workflow and improved the user journey for IPW users. With the new user interface, we simplified the wizard and introduced modular options that support faster and easier updates. Key improvements with the IPW redesign include:

  • A modular journey, previously a
Release Date: 
March 15 2024
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#ScopusIPW
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Scopus AI: How curated, enriched and connected data enhance research insights Webinar

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Thu, 02/29/2024 - 17:33

Scopus AI is designed to save researchers and institutions valuable time by creating an instant, intuitive and fully referenced summary of whatever topic is queried.  As with any generative AI technology, Scopus AI critically hinges on the quality of the data it is trained on.  Scopus AI draws from metadata and abstracts of Scopus, an authoritative, curated, and enriched data source.

Meet the Team: Bingqing LV, Publishing Relations Manager

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:43

This profile is part of a Scopus blog series, featuring the Secondary Content Operations team. This team looks after the relationships with all third parties such as publishers, societies and funding agencies whose content is included in Scopus, Engineering Village and other multi-publisher platforms.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

A well-equipped journalist happened to step into the publishing industry for 10+ years instead

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Navigating essential practices in responsible Gen AI - webinar recording available for viewing

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:30

Overview

Gen AI often raises concerns about ethical implications (data privacy and bias), quality control (traceability and reproducibility of outcomes) and fairness.  We invite you to join us in an upcoming webinar in the Scopus AI series to learn how we have addressed these concerns in the development of our new AI-powered academic search tool, Scopus AI.  

The recording of our webinar held February 27, 2023 is now available for viewing.

Click here to access the recording

In this webinar,

Release Date: 
February 5 2024
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#Scopus
#genai
#generativeAI

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) now available on the Scopus Organizational Profile

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Fri, 01/19/2024 - 16:42

We're excited to introduce a groundbreaking feature on Scopus that brings transparency to an organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) impact. The new SDG tab, seamlessly integrated into the Organizational Profile page, offers users a comprehensive view of how their institution contributes to global sustainability. 

What's New? 

A dedicated SDG tab has been added to the Scopus Organizational Profile page, allowing users to explore the
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Meet the CSAB: Professor & Subject Chair Chris van Kessel

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Mon, 01/08/2024 - 22:18

This is the 2nd article in a series on the Scopus blog, featuring the Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB). The CSAB is an international and editorially independent group of scientists, researchers and librarians who represent the major scientific disciplines. Using strict title selection criteria, these experts determine whether journals are eligible for indexing in Scopus, and they continually re-evaluate these titles to make sure quality is maintained.  

Throughout this series,

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Scopus introduces the Author Position metric - a new researcher signal

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Thu, 09/07/2023 - 19:17

Introducing the Author Position metric

Scopus is proud to announce a new metric available on the Scopus Author Profile page.  This metric is designed to help researchers better track and understand their research performance. It helps researchers pull together a comprehensive overview of their research performance and expand metrics they can provide on promotion, tenure and grant applications.  

How does Author Position work?

Most publications are created with the input from multiple
Release Date: 
September 7 2023
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New Scopus Researcher Discovery - a tool for making connections

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Mon, 06/12/2023 - 19:56

Do you need to quickly find a collaborator for a research project? 

Can you easily locate leading researchers in a discipline outside your own?   

Scopus Researcher Discovery solves these challenges by allowing users to conduct a keyword search to find relevant researcher matches and quickly build a view of the individuals contributing to a particular field. This functionality is now available to all A&G Scopus users globally.

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Scopus Author profiles are now mobile friendly!

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Fri, 06/09/2023 - 19:24

We have now made Scopus Author Profiles fully mobile responsive, so that researchers can track their performance, and search for experts and collaborators, from anywhere, at any time.   Smartphone usage for research is increasing rapidly and our team received user requested for an improved mobile experience.

Release Date: 
June 15 2023
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#mobile

Explore new features on the Scopus Search Results Page

Submitted by d.feldner@elsev...
on Fri, 06/09/2023 - 19:21

The redesigned Scopus Search Results page is now live!  As part of our mission to improve user ease of use, we have redesigned the Scopus Search Results page.  The improved functionality was fueled by customer feedback and the product team's commitment to continually improving and includes:

  • Search functionality on the search result page itself
  • User-friendly filters/facets and customized different views on how the results are displayed
  • An aesthetically pleasing and intuitive page layout

Here is

Release Date: 
July 7 2023
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