Scopus is an abstract and citation database of academic journals in various subject fields such as life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It is launched in 2004 by Elsevier. Scopus database is very popular and widely used by researchers, students, and professionals in various fields of study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus
For more info about see Scopus blog: https://blog.scopus.com/
Scopus research metrics:
Scopus offers research metrics at the different aggregation levels: Article level metrics, Author level metrics, and Journal level metrics.
- Scopus Article level metrics:
Citations: the number of times the article has been cited by other articles.
Plum X altmetrics: the number of times the article has been mentioned across the various Plum X altmetrics sources.
- Scopus Author level metrics:
H-index: Based on the total number of publications and the total number of citations of a researcher. The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author/journal has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
*Note that the use of h-index for the evaluation of researchers are warned against by the scientific community. https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/halt-the-h-index
- Scopus Journal level metrics:
Cite Score measures the number of citations to documents by a journal over four years, divided by the number of the same document types indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years. Citescore is not normalized Impact factor. https://blog.scopus.com/posts/citescore-2022-update-is-live-in-scopus
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) calculated by CWTS (Leiden University). This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal and corrects for differences in citation practices between scientific fields, thereby allowing for more accurate between-field comparisons of citation impact.” https://blog.scopus.com/posts/journal-metrics-in-scopus-source-normalized-impact-per-paper-snip
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) is calculated by the SCImago group in Spain. This indicators weights citations based on the source they come from. The subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. SJR also normalizes for differences in citation behavior between subject fields. https://blog.scopus.com/posts/journal-metrics-in-scopus-scimago-journal-rank-sjr
Scopus Tutorials on how to make reports based on the above research metrics:
https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14799/supporthub/scopus/p/10965/
Search in Scopus:
Use the following link to search for author, affiliation, and document:
Use the following link to search for the Scopus journal metrics:
https://www.scopus.com/sources
Detailed information about searching in Scopus is available from here: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/metrics
Metrics-Scopus-LibGuide-LibGuides-at-ElsevierScopus metrics & Pure integrations:
Scopus metrics are integrated in Pure. It is also possible to make reports based on an organization including Scopus metrics at the different aggregation levels. Follow these steps:
- Go to Pure.knaw.nl
- Select Report definition
- Choose a content type
- Select report format
- Add filter
- Select Journals Journal Metrics Scopus
- Select any of the Scopus metrics
- OK and Save and make the report.