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Eugene Garfield, information scientist: 1925-2017

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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.

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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.

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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.

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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

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

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
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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Scopus and SciVal Case Studies: How universities in Taiwan stay competitive in a challenging academic environment

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 18:57
By Kelsey Grentzer

Last year, we introduced a library of video and written case studies in which university leaders from around the world share how they are using Scopus, SciVal and Pure to answer pressing challenges faced by their researchers and research managers.

Now added to the library are three new videos featuring university leaders in Taiwan.

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Scopus Experiencing Search Issues

Submitted by Rachel McCullough
on Fri, 12/23/2016 - 17:40

Scopus is experiencing issues which, at times, may result in search functionality to become temporarily disabled.

It is possible that this problem may continue during the holiday period while we work to resolve it.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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