For Academia
Your challenges
Do you recognize the following challenges:
- Maximizing the usage of my library resources
- Maximizing my return of investment by making resources more visible
- Best supporting my community to become more efficient
- Reducing time spent on gathering and analyzing information
- Providing my community with easy access to the most relevant, comprehensive and up-to-date information available and letting them focus more on their actual research
The solution
Scopus helps researchers, editors and librarians to overcome their challenges and reach their goals quickly and effectively.
Using Scopus as a researcher you can:
- Find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received
- Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year
- Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily
- Use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest
- Uncover important and relevant articles that you may otherwise miss
- Check out the work and citations of other authors
- Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. You can do this within or across disciplines you are interested in
Using Scopus as an editor you can:
- Find and evaluate referees and authors for review papers and thematic issues
- Identify and contact potential editorial board members
- Monitor journal trends, for example by comparing the current aims and scope of a journal with citation patterns to see if a shift has occurred
- Review the performance and coverage of new journals quickly, and at your desktop without waiting for them to be indexed in other databases. New journals are covered and citation links created to and from them on a regular basis
Using Scopus as a librarian you can:
- Offer an easy-to-use, reliable abstract and citation database to your users
- Link your users quickly and accurately to the full-text articles you've invested in
- Increase the visibility of and access to other library resources
- Ensure your users search peer-reviewed, indexed content
- Analyze highly-cited articles to inform your collection management decisions
Dr James D. Wright Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, USA
Karen Holland, Editor of the journal Nurse Education in Practice, UK
Jeroen Bosman, Subject Librarian, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
