Skip directly to content

d.feldner@elsevier.com's blog

Meet the Team: Bingqing LV, Publishing Relations Manager

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

Tags: 

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

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

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

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

Meet the CSAB: Professor & Subject Chair Chris van Kessel

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,

Scopus introduces the Author Position metric - a new researcher signal

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

New Scopus Researcher Discovery - a tool for making connections

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.

Scopus Author profiles are now mobile friendly!

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

Explore new features on the Scopus Search Results Page

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

CiteScore 2022 update is live in Scopus!

on Thu, 06/08/2023 - 00:46

CiteScore metrics enrich the evaluation of serial titles and provide transparent data to help you measure the citation impact for journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade journals. This comprehensive, clear and current system of metrics for analysis can be accessed for free on Scopus.Enhance your assessment of journals, books, and conferences series with a comprehensive picture of the global scholarly publication

Release Date: 
June 7 2023

Scopus now includes 90 million + content records!

on Wed, 02/15/2023 - 22:02

90 million + content records is only part of the story

In addition to sharing our milestone, the Scopus team wanted to share Scopus data insights with Academic Researchers, Data Scientists and Librarians.     Data is key to Elsevier’s position as a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.   As an expertly curated abstract and citation database, Scopus has data at its core.

Release Date: 
February 15 2023

Pages