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Scopus User Guide: Metrics

This is a user guide based on Elsevier's guide and tailored for NU community to navigate Scopus while searching relevant information for their research and educational purposes

Metrics

Metrics are embedded throughout Scopus at the journal, article and author levels. All of these metrics are designed to help facilitate the evaluation of authors, journals and articles. These metrics also provide enhanced views of research areas and help build valuable insights.

Scopus metrics are a set of indicators used to measure the impact of scholarly research, including the h-index, citations, and journal metrics such as the CiteScore, SNIP, and SJR. These metrics are designed to provide a comprehensive, trustworthy, and transparent way to demonstrate the influence of journals, articles, authors, and institutions.

  • The CiteScore is a metric that measures the number of citations received by a journal in one year to documents published in the three previous years, divided by the number of documents indexed in Scopus published in those same three years.
  • The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric for journals, book series, and conference proceedings that weights the value of a citation based on the subject field, quality, and reputation of the source. SJR is calculated by taking into account the number of citations received by a journal, the quality of the journals where the citations come from, and the subject field of the journal.
  • The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by taking differences in disciplinary characteristics into account. It is calculated by dividing the total number of citations received by a journal in a given year by the total number of documents published in the previous three years, and then normalizing the result based on the citation potential of the subject field.
  • Field-weighted Citation Impact is a metric used to evaluate the impact of scholarly research by comparing the number of citations a paper or set of papers has received to the number of citations it may expect to receive based on the average number of citations per paper in the same subject category, article type, and publication year
  • PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with individual pieces of research output in the online environment

How to use CiteScore?

Document, Journal and Author Metrics

Scopus Document metrics include:

  •     Citations in Scopus
  •     Views Count
  •     PlumX (see below for more details)

With Scopus document metrics, you can:

  •     See citation overviews
  •     Create graphs
  •     Compare citation counts
  •     Link to citing documents

Journal-level metrics on Scopus include:

  • CiteScore metrics
  • SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
  • Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Journal metrics can compare up to 10 sources and review results on a chart or in table format:

  • Search for sources to compare by title, ISSN, publisher, subject area 
  • Compare CiteScore for each publication by year 
  • Compare SNIP for each publication by year 
  • Compare SJR for each publication by year 
  • Compare number of documents for each publication by year 
  • Compare percent of articles cited for each publication by year 
  • Compare percent of review articles published in each publication by year  

Available author metrics include:

  • h-index and h-graph: Rates a scientist's performance based on his or her career publications, as measured by the lifetime number of citations each article receives. The measurement depends on both quantity (number of publications) and quality (number of citations) of an academic's publications. 
  • Citation overview tracker: An adjustable table that includes the number of times each document has been cited per publication year. 

  • Analyze author output: A collection of in-depth and visual analysis tools designed to provide a better picture of an individual’s publication history and influence

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