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World Lung Cancer Day: Finding relevant content in Scopus

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Mon, 08/01/2016 - 22:08

August 1st is World Lung Cancer Day and in recognition of the research leading the way to understanding, educating, treating and eventually curing one of the most common types of cancer, we take a look at Scopus to see what content we can find (click on the images to expand).  

A basic search in Scopus for “Lung Cancer” returns close to 176,000 results dating from 1921 to 2016.

To better understand our results, we clicked on <Analyze

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In their words: Elsevier's Research Intelligence Solutions case studies

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Thu, 07/21/2016 - 04:18

Contributed by: Sabrina Ahmad

Thousands of institutions, funding bodies and companies around the world rely on Elsevier's Research Intelligence solutions to answer the most pressing challenges their researchers and research managers face. We’ve spoken with several of our customers and created a collection of their stories to share with you through a series of case studies, videos and webinars — with each story focusing on the unique way customers are using Scopus, SciVal and Pure.

Hear their

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Check, Correct, Submit: How to ensure accuracy in your Scopus Author Profile

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Fri, 06/24/2016 - 00:21

The data behind your Scopus Author Profile informs the outward view of your scholarly information—total number of citations, publication history, h-index—not only in Scopus itself, but across other entities supported by Scopus data. These measures may play a factor in tenure, funding or in other decisions; therefore, it is important to ensure your profile reflects your information correctly.

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Shaping Scopus Content Strategy and Selection Policy: A look at the Scopus CSAB

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 15:49

The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) bi-annual meeting:

By Rachel McCullough, Scopus Product Marketing Manager

It’s been almost a month since our last Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) meeting took place in Warsaw, Poland.

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ShanghaiRanking Consultancy (SRC) launches Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 using Scopus data and SciVal metrics

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Fri, 06/17/2016 - 20:15

We are pleased to announce that the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy (SRC) is using Scopus data and metrics from SciVal analytics for its Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016. The recently released ranking ranks global universities in 7 engineering subjects, including Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Energy Science & Engineering, Environmental Science & Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

This new subject ranking

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Five steps to creating a citation overview in Scopus

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Mon, 05/23/2016 - 17:16

In this Scopus Webinar, Scopus Product Manager, Kai Wan, joined us to share some best practices on how to use Scopus analysis tools in your research. Based on minutes 00:11:03–00:15:18 of his presentation, this tip & trick shares why and how to use the Scopus Citation overview tool.

The Scopus Citation Overview tool offers an interactive way to:

  • View the citation trend for a set of documents
  • Find all publications citing a specific
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Scheduled maintenance for Scopus on Sunday, May 22

Submitted by Susannah Beatty...
on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 23:35

On Sunday, May 22, 2016, Scopus will experience a brief service outage due to scheduled maintenance.The service disruption is expected to be short and will occur between the hours of 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. GMT) and 11:00 a.m EDT (3:00 p.m. GMT).

We recommend using www.thetimenow.com/worldclock.php or a similar application to convert the planned outage time to your local time. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

To stay informed about service updates and product enhancements, we

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May 22 2016
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