[Resource] Elsevier Scopus database opening trial notice
Published: 2021-04-20
Article Source: Ministry of Construction Resources
Author: Zhang Qian
Platform introduction
The Scopus database is the world's largest peer-reviewed journal abstracts and citation database launched by Elsevier Publishing House. The scope of inclusion includes:
More than 80 million records (updated daily, about 10,000 records per day)
25,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 international publishers
More than 6,000 golden OA journals, more than 10 million open access articles
More than 8,000 journals in editing (acquired 1-4 months before publication)
230,000+ books
More than 10 million conference papers
More than 45 million international patents
Covered journals in more than 40 languages, more than 800 Chinese peer-reviewed core journals (including journals in the China Excellence Journal Program)
The world's important university ranking institutions (QS, THE, Shanghai Jiaotong University China's Best University Rankings, China's Highly Cited Scholars Ranking, etc.) all use the data of the Scopus database as a benchmark to evaluate the output and development of the disciplines. In addition, Scopus is also the data report source for the fifth round of subject evaluation.
The Scopus database includes the information of more than 7,000 institutions and more than 16 million scholars, and provides an independent Scopus Author ID for each included scholar; supports one-click generation of authors’ literature output analysis, citation reports, and flexible selection and removal of self-citations , Remove book references, etc. Researchers can quickly obtain the characteristics of the scientific research output of individuals, peers, and institutions, and discover potential partners for cooperation.
Scopus has an optional Chinese search interface, supports scholar search, institution search, and document search, and can visually analyze the search results. It can provide the following help for school researchers, libraries, and scientific research managers:
1. Understand the research dynamics of the institution, subject performance, cooperative units, academic output, and high-impact mechanics
2. Track the development direction of frontier subjects, understand the high-level period of the subject field, and determine possible subject research directions
3. Understand the quality of journals in the subject area, international influence, and possible future submission directions and target journals
4. Find potential cooperative institutions and cooperative scholars to help the further development of scientific research
5. Comparison of academic output among institutions, disciplines, and scholars, help determine the development strategies of institutions and disciplines, discover and train potential talents in the institution, and introduce possible outstanding talents
6. Analyze the input-output ratio of the school's literature resources and optimize the collection
Instructions
IP address authorization, the authorized address can be directly accessed. Resource access address: Click to enter.
Trial deadline: June 19 , 2021
If you encounter any problems during the trial period, please contact the Resource Development Department: 84396021.
The attachment [ Scopus Quick Reference Guide.pdf ]
