SCOPUS An eye on global research. Ayesha Abed Library

SCOPUS An eye on global research Ayesha Abed Library

What is SCOPUS Scopus launched in November 2004. It is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings with bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Updated daily, Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and Arts & Humanities. Source: www.elsevier.com/scopus

What content is included in Scopus? 64M records. 21,548 titles. 5,000 publishers. Source: www.elsevier.com/scopus

Over 64 million records Scopus Includes 39.5+ million post-1995 records, including references(84% include abstracts) 24+ million pre-1996 records going back as far as 1823 Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals, of which more than 3,500 are full Gold Open Access http://bit.ly/1sraf40 More than 131,000 books http://bit.ly/2alh1o8 Including monographs, edited volumes, major reference works and graduate level text books Focuses on social sciences and arts & humanities, but also includes science, technology & medicine(stm)

Scopus Includes More than 540 book series Over 7.5 million Conference papers Over 320 trade publications Articles-in-press(i.e. articles that have been accepted for publication) from over 3,750 titles from international publishers, including Cambridge University Press, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and, of course, Elsevier.

Why is SCOPUS important in assessing the quality/caliber of the faculty research?

Academic Institutions Scopus is designed to serve the research information needs of researchers, faculty, educators, administrators, students and librarians across the entire academic community. Scopus helps Faculty & Researchers to: Search for relevant topics/articles during the literature review phase Decide where to publish analyze the top journals and authors in your discipline Discover who is citing their publication Explore how many citations an article or author has received, and identify potential collaborators

Academic Institutions Scopus helps Faculty & Researchers to: Find information to support your grant or other applications The Scopus h-index and Citation Tracker helps to assess the performance of the research for tenure applications and promotions For Students: Students need access to peer-reviewed literature so that they can produce quality thesis and advance in their field of study. Scopus delivers: targeted subject search results and guides students to the most relevant papers with cited by counts.

Academic Institutions Scopus helps Department Heads and Administrators to: Assess the research performance of individual researcher, faculty and institution and to make decisions about tenure and promotion of faculty. Allocate and prioritize financial resources to researchers or departments by tracking impact Promote their institute for funding and student and faculty recruitment Create reports for key stakeholders Benchmark departments against each other

How Scopus recognition will help BRAC University enter global rankings?

University Rankings By showcasing the distinctive strengths of research institutions, rankings help students select their university of choice, faculty to make career decisions, and university leaders to discuss strategic priorities. They may also be used by the corporate world to guide industry investment in academic partnerships Dr. Nick Fowler, Managing Director of Elsevier's Research Management division, Rankings provide a more complete picture of worldwide research https://www.elsevier.com/connect/rankings-provide-a-more-complete-picture-of-worldwide-research

University Rankings There are multiple world university rankings available with the bestknown being the QS World University Rankings, and Times Higher Education World University Rankings and each one uses a different methodology. The results are used by universities as key performance indicators and serve as a powerful communication tool.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings https://www.timeshighereducation.com The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the only global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. They use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: Teaching (the learning environment): 30% Research (volume, income and reputation): 30% Citations (research influence): 30% International outlook (staff, students and research): 7.5% Industry income (knowledge transfer): 2.5%

Scopus and Times Higher Education World University Rankings Research (volume, income and reputation): 30% To measure productivity Times Higher Education counts the number of papers published in the academic journals indexed by Elsevier s Scopus database per scholar, scaled for institutional size and normalised for subject. This gives a sense of the university s ability to get papers published in quality peer-reviewed journals. Citations (research influence): 30% The Times Higher Education examines research influence by capturing the number of times a university s published work is cited by scholars globally. In 2016-2017, THE World University Rankings examined more than 56 million citations to 11.9 million journal articles, conference proceedings and books and book chapters published over five years.

Scopus and Times Higher Education World University Rankings The Times Higher Education examines research influence by capturing the number of times a university s published work is cited by scholars globally. In 2016-2017, THE World University Rankings examined more than 56 million citations to 11.9 million journal articles, conference proceedings and books and book chapters published over five years.

QS World University Rankings http://www.qs.com/qs-world-university-rankings.html The QS World University Rankings assesses universities on six performance indicators, relating to research, teaching, employability and internationalization. To be eligible for inclusion, institutions must teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and conduct work in at least two of five broad faculty areas (arts and humanities; engineering and technology; social sciences and management; natural sciences; life sciences and medicine). Academic reputation (worth 40% of the overall score) Employer reputation (10%) Student-to-faculty ratio (20%) Research citations per faculty member (20%) Proportion of international faculty (5%) Proportion of international students (5%)

Scopus and QS World University Rankings Citations per faculty (20%) This indicator aims to assess universities research impact. A citation means a piece of research being cited (referred to) within another piece of research. Generally, the more often a piece of research is cited, the more influential it is. So the more highly cited research papers a university publishes, the stronger its research output is considered. QS collects this information using Scopus, the world s largest database of research abstracts and citations. The latest five complete years of data are used, and the total citation count is assessed in relation to the number of academic faculty members at the university, so that larger institutions do not have an unfair advantage. For the 2016-17 rankings, QS analyzed 10.3 million research papers and 66.3 million citations from Scopus.

How to access SCOPUS through HINARI

How to Access Scopus: Step 01: To access Scopus please go to our library website http://library.bracu.ac.bd/ and click on Database A-Z tab marked with Red Square. Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 02: On Database A-Z please click on alphabet S Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 03: In Scopus section click on Connect. For Hinari Login User ID and Password please contact with the Librarian. Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 04: When Hinari webpage opens click on Login Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 05: Please login with User ID and Password provided by the Librarian Request username and password from the librarian Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 06: After login please click on Search inside Hinari full-text through database and article searching marked with Red Square Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 07: In the Database list click on SCOPUS. Please Click to Continue Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Step 08: In Scopus home page you can search your desired information using deferent search options Ayesha Abed Library, BRAC University

Document Search This tab is the main search window of the homepage. To begin, enter the search terms in the space provided

Author Search - Choose the Author Search tab to search for a specific author by name. - Enter surname and initials or given name of author in the Author fields and a list of authors that may match will be shown. You can also search in combination with his/her affiliation.

Affiliation Search Under "Affiliation Search", enter the name of your desired institution.

To view affiliation details Click the affiliation name to display the Affiliation details page.

Viewing Affiliation Details - Affiliation details include the affiliation ID, name variations, address information, research areas, documents published, sources the affiliation has published in, and collaborating affiliations. This page also shows the institution's publications according to subject areas. Viewing affiliation documents To view documents for one affiliation, click the number of documents link for that affiliation

Viewing affiliation documents: - On the Affiliation search results page, select the affiliations you want from the list. - To view the documents associated with your selected affiliations, click Show documents - If you click on the number of documents, a list of documents by this institution will be displayed.

. Document Search/ Sorting Options & Refining a Search -If needed, further refine your search results by year, subject area, or document type, etc.

Document Search/ Sorting Options & Refining a Search - Analyze Search Results, Number of Search Results, Search within Results, Displays the number of documents results, Batch Processing Results( Export, Download, View Citation Overview, View cited by, Create Bibliography and more), Display Document Details Page, Link to Full Text and Sort Options.

Analysis/Citation Overview Analyze citations by clicking View citation overview. This will display, in table format, the number of citations per year for each article. This multipurpose tool allows you to see at a glance the citation trend for any given article

Scopus Analysis/Citation Overview

Analysis/Analyze Results Analyze citations by clicking View citation overview. This will display, in table format, the number of citations per year for each article. This multipurpose tool allows you to see at a glance the citation trend for any given article

Analysis/Analyze Results BRAC University 2011-2016

Scopus Analysis/Analyze Results BRAC University 2011-2016

ScopusAuthor Tools/Author Details Displays the author s articles, affiliation, document that cite the author, h- index and can analyze the citations

To learn how to use Scopus, go to the tutorial menu

Scopus Tutorial Please click here to see Scopus tutorial

http://help.scopus.com/content/tutorials/sc_basicsearch.html A short video tutorial on How to Search on Scopus

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