Scopus Indexed Journals 2018 (original) (raw)
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Background: Scopus is a leading bibliometric database. It contains a large part of the articles cited in peer-reviewed publications. The journals included in Scopus are periodically re-evaluated to ensure they meet indexing criteria and some journals might be discontinued for 'publication concerns'. Previously published articles may remain indexed and can be cited. Their metrics have yet to be studied. This study aimed to evaluate the main features and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns, before and after their discontinuation, and to determine the extent of predatory journals among the discontinued journals. Methods: We surveyed the list of discontinued journals from Scopus (July 2019). Data regarding metrics, citations and indexing were extracted from Scopus or other scientific databases, for the journals discontinued for publication concerns. Results: A total of 317 journals were evaluated. Ninety-three percent of the journals (294/317) ...
An Introduction to the Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB
Why Scopus? Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. It is designed to simplify the access of researchers, students, teachers and general users to worldwide , quality-assessed peer reviewed academic publications in all Sciences and Arts and Humanities. The academic publishing industry is in continuous flux, and recent years have brought further challenges in respect of the evaluation of the proliferation of open access journals, online-only publication and a proliferation of new publishers, publishing strategies and commercial models. Academic cataloguing has an illustrious history, which includes the exhaustive pioneering work of Ulrich's catalogue and of Thomson ISI, whose printed publication library catalogues were well known to former generations of researchers, and which subsequently migrated on line as the " Web of Science ". Thomson's Impact Factor, derived from data within the Web of Science, has long had a major impact upon the science of bibliometrics and the quantitation of academic output. Competition drives innovation and progress and in its first decade, Scopus expanded such that by November 2015 it includes some 22,000+ titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. Since 2009, every applicant journal for accession into Scopus has been through a formal qualitative and quantitative appraised and evaluation process, which itself is continually evolving as we gain more experience of the system and of the academic journal environment.
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Over the years, the number of journals indexed in Scopus has increased, although it varies significantly between countries. The increasing proportion of international journals of a country provides new venues for papers from that country to be seen by other researchers worldwide. In this work, we evaluate the relationship of a country's scientific performance or publication success with both its journals' quantity and quality. The specific objective of the study is to identify the relationship between the country's publication success and the quantity and quality of those country's journals indexed in Scopus during 2005-2014. The publication success of 102 individual countries, measured by their scientific productivity, impact and collaboration indicators, the quantity of country's Scopus-indexed journals in 2014 (a total of 22,581 journals) as well as the quantity of its journals were investigated. Scopus-indexed journals are predominantly from Western Europe (48.9%) and North America (27.7%), with the United States and the United Kingdom dominate with a total 51%. The contribution from the peripheral countries is comparatively small, however there are a good number of contributions from the SouthEast Asian countries. Estonia is the fastest growing country in terms of having indexed journals in Scopus, following by Iran and Malaysia. Among the studied indices, it was found that publication success (total publications and total citations) of 102 countries are strongly correlated with quantity (number of indexed journals and number of documents published in indexed journals) and quality (citations per paper, SJR, h-index, CiteScore and SNIP)
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Our aim is to compare the coverage of the Scopus database with that of Ulrich, to determine just how homogenous it is in the academic world. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis of the coverage of a product of this nature should be done in relation to an accepted model, the optimal choice being Ulrich’s Directory, considered the international point of reference for the most comprehensive information on journals published throughout the world. The results described here allow us to draw a profile of Scopus in terms of its coverage by areas – geographic and thematic – and the significance of peer-review in its publications. Both these aspects are highly pragmatic considerations for information retrieval, the evaluation of research, and the design of policies for the use of scientific databases in scientific promotion.