Identifying and understanding research impact: A comprehensive suite of metrics embedded throughout Scopus is designed to help facilitate evaluation and provide a better view of your research interests. Whether you are looking for metrics at the journal, article or author level, Scopus combines its sophisticated analytical capabilities with its unbiased and broad content coverage to help you build valuable insights. Here we look at: Author level metrics Journal metrics Article level metrics

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Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier
Scopus
Research Metrics
27th September 2018

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Analyze the
strengths of
research at the
institution
Determine
where research
is a good
potential
investment
Demonstrate
ROI (Return On
Investment) of
research money
Identify rising
stars amongst
the early career
researchers
Tell a better
narrative about
everything that
is happening
with research
Research Metrics Can Be Used To…

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Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics are measures of output and indicators of
impact.
Probably the simplest bibliometric is a count of
publications.
More advanced bibliometrics help you to understand the
impact of your academic publications within the scope of
the worldwide research community.

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You can use Bibliometric to look at
different types of impact.
Your impact at point of publication:
• What are the top journals in your field? Where should you aim to
publish?
• Have you been successful in getting your paper into an above average
journal for your research area?
Your impact post publication (otherwise known as citation impact):
• How many times has your paper been cited?
• Has your paper attracted more citations than normal?
• Who is citing your work? Which researchers from which institutions?
Your impact through knowledge transfer:
• From which subject areas are most of your citations coming?
• Are any research fields outside of your own unexpectedly interested in
your work?
Your impact through collaboration:
• Who do you publish with most? And, who do they publish with most?
• How international is the scope of your collaboration?
• Are you overlooking any potential collaboration opportunities?

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Citation databases
There are two subscription citation indices: Citation indices supply the
data that underlie Bibliometrics.
Citation indices act as the data universes for bibliometric
studies. Clarivate‘s Web of Science (which is part of the larger Web of
Knowledge) and Elsevier's Scopus. Web of Science has been around
in one form or another for decades. Scopus is much newer, starting up
only in 2004.
Google Scholar can be considered the third citation index, but it is not
used formally in bibliometrics for several reasons:
• inaccuracies and redundancy of records
• computer- rather than human-indexing, which results in significant issues
with quality control
• offers no means to normalise bibliometric results to account fairly for
differences in publication year, document type, and subject area.

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What are we going to cover?
• Author profiles
• Journal Metrics
• Article level metrics

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What is a Profile? A reminder from Scopus
Scopus Profiles are…
• Comprehensive (~ 12 million Author Profiles and 8.5 million Affiliation Profiles)
• Easy to integrate (via RSS or the Scopus APIs)
• Widely used (interoperable with ORCID, VIVO)
• Are algorithmically created and can be manually updated and corrected

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But Paddy Murphy happens……
155 Patrick Murphy’s in Scopus
78 publish in medical related fields
56 of which are based in the USA
17 of whom have the initials P.J.
This is one of the many challenges……….

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• There has been no
(and still aren’t) any
universally formal
guidelines on author
and affiliation name
writing in academic
papers
• As a result all A&I
database providers
have the same issue:

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What does a Scopus author profile look like?

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The H-index /Hirsch index or Hirsch number
The H-index is a metric to measure the scientific productivity and
the impact of the published work of a specific scientist
In other words:
A scholar has an index of 13
if he has published at least 13 papers
each of which has been cited at least 13 times.
Published by Jorge E. Hirsch in August 2005

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What is an ORCID?
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you
from every other researcher and, through integration in key research
workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports
automated linkages between you and your professional activities
ensuring that your work is recognized.
https://orcid.org/

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Making good use of your profile
Check it now and again – it exists as a free part of Scopus
Add it to your CV or LinkedIn page

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Article level metrics: PlumX

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Alternative Metrics
These metrics seek to capture interactions other people have had
with your research via social media, news, blogs or even readership

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Scopus Metrics: PlumX
In July 2017, PlumX Metrics were integrated on Scopus, providing
measurable ways to understand how a piece of research is being used,
interacted with, shared, promoted and cited
Watch the PlumX Metrics Webinar
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2015.11.010

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Researchers have moved online

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The Five Categories of Metrics

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Types of Research Output

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PlumX Uses Many IDs to Track Research Output

21. • Visualizes scholarly
engagement
• Circles dynamically change
size based on metrics in
each category
• Includes 5 categories of
metrics
• Designed to communicate
engagement without a score
The Plum Print

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PlumX Metrics on Article Page in Scopus
The Plum Print on a
Scopus Document
Page
Drop down for more
PlumX Metrics using
arrow
Click through for
more metrics

23. PlumX Metrics for all
five categories
Click here for details
about the metrics
An example of
the Plum Print
in Pure
Scopus
page with
more
detailed
metrics

24. An example of
the Plum Print
in Pure
You can see
even more
details
about the
PlumX
metrics
For example, you can
see all of the Tweets
that reference this
article

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Scopus Journal Metrics

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Elsevier Research Metrics in Scopus
A comprehensive suite of metrics embedded throughout Scopus is
designed to provide a better view of users research interests.
When used correctly, research metrics together with qualitative input
give a balanced, multi-dimensional view for decision-making
Two Golden Rules for using research metrics
Always use both qualitative
and quantitative input into
your decisions
Always use more than one
research metric as the
quantitative input

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CiteScore™ metrics are the new
standard that help to measure journal
citation impact.
• Comprehensive, Transparent,
Current and free metrics for helping
to analyze where research outputs
are published.
• Calculated using data from Scopus,
CiteScore metrics help validate
citations received by journals and
proceedings, and empower users
with information to make well-
informed decisions regarding
where to publish.
Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
(SNIP)
• Developed by CWTS, University of Leiden
Netherlands.
• Measures contextual citation impact by
weighting citations based on the total
number of citations in a subject field.
• The impact of a single citation is given
higher value in subject areas where
citations are less likely, and vice versa.
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
• Developed by SCImago, Spain.
• A prestige metric that can be applied to
journals, book series and conference
proceedings.
• With SJR, the subject field, quality and
reputation of the journal have a direct
effect on the value of a citation.
Journal metrics in Scopus
More information: www.elsevier.com/scopus and https://journalmetrics.scopus.com/

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More accuracy, transparency, more metrics

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A note of caution:
 Not all journals have an IF, only selected journals by Clarivate Analytics staff
for indexing in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
 In some disciplines, 2 years is not enough time for articles to accrue citations
 There is a strong English language and American bias in the journals covered
 Interdisciplinary journals are not well represented in the JCR database
 Only article, reviews and conference papers are used in the dominator
What is an Impact Factor (IF)
IF 2016 =
Citations received in 2016
Citable items in 2015 & 2014
(article, reviews, conference papers)

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CiteScore is a simple metric for all Scopus journals
B
Note: at launch, all titles in the May 2016 title list, and with some documents indexed in 2016, will have CiteScore metrics
CiteScore 2015 value
B
=
A
Citations in 2015
Documents from 3 years
20122011 2013 2014 2015 2016
A
CiteScore Impact Factor
A = citations to 3 years of documents A = citations to 2 or 5 years of documents
B = all documents indexed in Scopus, same as A B = only citable items (articles, reviews and
conference papers), different from A

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Comprehensive coverage:
Available for 23,350+ titles on Scopus—including peer-reviewed
journals, trade journals, book series and conference proceedings—in
330 disciplines, CiteScore covers 12,000+ more titles than the leading
competitor.
https://blog.scopus.com/

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CiteScore Percentile
CiteScore Percentile indicates the relative standing of a serial title in its
subject field. A serial that has a CiteScore Percentile of 96% is ranked
according to CiteScore as high or higher than 96% of serial titles in that category.
https://journalmetrics.scopus.com/

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CiteScore Tracker is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but for the
current year rather than previous, complete years.
The CiteScore Tracker calculation is updated every month, as a current
indication of a title's performance.
CiteScore Tracker