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CiteScore Tracker: Keep current with how a title’s CiteScore is building each month

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Tue, 04/18/2017 - 02:46

While a metric like CiteScore provides a consistent way to track performance annually, CiteScore Tracker also shows how the current year’s CiteScore builds up each month — additional information that may be helpful when making decisions.

How it works: CiteScore Tracker is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but for the current year, rather than previous, complete years.

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CiteScore metrics
Metrics
Tips and Tricks

Gaining a competitive advantage with Scopus: a case study for pharma

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Fri, 04/14/2017 - 15:39

Getting a new drug to market as fast — and as safely — as possible is a key focus for any researcher or developer manager at a pharmaceutical company, regardless of size.

In such a competitive environment, facing a delay of just a few months can give a rival company the chance to get to market first, so it is important that your drug moves through every step, from trials to approval, at top speed.

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Case Studies
R&D Solutions

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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
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Release
CiteScore metrics
SciVal
Funding

Scopus currently experiencing issues

Submitted by Rachel McCullough
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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outage

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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.

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SciVal
Research Intelligence

Scopus is experiencing issues with outward linking and certain link resolvers

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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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Release

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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
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