Scopus Indexed Journals 2018 (original) (raw)
Research Analytics, 2017
A Brief History of Scopus ◾ 33 citation database (covered elsewhere in this book), which was already well established and known for its infamous Impact Factor (IF) rating of scientific journals. However, in its young history, Scopus has done incredibly well so far, growing from a mere 27 million indexed items in 2004 to over 67 million items at the time of writing in 2017, drawn from more than 22,700 serial titles; 98,000 conferences; and 144,000 books from over 5,000 different publishers worldwide, and last year, in 2016, it introduced its own CiteScore metric of journal performance. Today, Scopus is being used as the primary research citation data source by researchers and health professionals from top universities and research institutes around the globe, by leading university ranking organizations such as Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), by funding organizations such as the European Research Council (ERC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and by evaluation bodies conducting national research assessments such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the United Kingdom in 2014 and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercises in 2010, 2012, and 2015. This chapter aims to give an overview of Scopus' remarkable success story since its inception, including its user interface, functionality, advanced analysis tools, and bibliometric indicators; its coverage of different subject areas, publication years, sources, and document types; its stringent content selection policies and processes; the many author and affiliation profiles that can be found in Scopus; how Scopus data feed into other Elsevier research products such as SciVal, ScienceDirect, Pure, and Mendeley; and how customers use Scopus Custom Data (SCD) and Scopus application programming interfaces (APIs) to incorporate into their own tools.
F1000Research
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.
Melnyk, Y. B. (2024). How journals are indexed in Scopus and whether this guarantees their quality: A practical case of the International Journal of Science Annals. International Journal of Science Annals, 7(2), 5–26. https://doi.org/10.26697/ijsa.2024.2.3, 2024
Background and Aim of Study: The present study discusses the necessity and sufficiency of the criteria of the Scopus database for quality assurance of scientific publications, as well as the reviewer's role in the journal evaluation process. The paper analyses the process by which Scopus reviewers evaluate IJSA to ensure the Journal meets the stated criteria for indexing in Scopus. The aim of the study: to investigate the objectivity of the Scopus journal evaluationto carry out a comparative analysis of the results of the Scopus reviewer evaluation with the real qualitative and quantitative criteria of a particular journal, and to compare them with the criteria of periodicals already indexed in Scopus. Material and Methods: Qualitative and quantitative IJSA analysis methods based on five categories and fourteen selection criteria from Scopus were used. A comparative analysis of scientific periodicals indexed in Scopus has been conducted. We used open databases to study the current state of the research problem: Scopus website, journals websites, journal articles, and social media. Results: A case study of a particular journal, IJSA, was used to describe the whole process of preparing, submitting, evaluating, and appealing the evaluation of the Journal in the Scopus database. A journal may indeed meet high criteria for assessing scientific publications, including those declared by Scopus. However, this does not guarantee its indexing in this database because there is a human factor-a Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB) reviewer-who has the power to subjectively evaluate the Journal and reject it on formal grounds or his / her misjudgment. Conclusions: The decision of the CSAB reviewer is more significant for the inclusion of a journal in Scopus than the fulfilment of the quality criteria of the evaluated Journal. This is illustrated by the fact that some journals cannot be indexed or are excluded from indexing in Scopus, while other journals of lesser quality have been indexed in this database for many years. Today's main problems in scientific periodicals are discussed (paper mills, predatory journals, citation cartels, buying an author's place in a commissioned paper, changing journal ownership, fraudulent websites, etc.). A number of criteria for assessing the quality of journals need to be reviewed, and a balance must be struck between their necessity and sufficiency. This eliminates any possible (or forced) manipulation of journals to meet Scopus indexing criteria.
Publishing Research Quarterly, 2017
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)
Data in Brief, 2018
The statistical analysis of editorial board composition, Citescore and percentile of 180 Hindawi journals currently indexed in Scopus are presented in this data article. The three indicators (editorial board composition, Citescore and percentile) can be helpful for researchers to make informed decision about the impact of Hindawi journals. The last two indicators are components of Scopus Citescore metrics.