Introduction to Scopus Database

Scopus is the product of the Elsevier company and the world's largest and most reliable online abstract database. This site was launched in 2004 and is updated daily. Scopus covers all science areas including biology, physics, chemistry, and social sciences. Scopus contains the works of about 5,000 scientific publishers from across the world. In total, Scopus has indexed 22,800 scientific journals. The use of Scopus data requires subscription and payment, which is provided by the Ministry of Health for the universities of medical sciences, including Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, and is available to researchers and students.

 

Scopus comprises:

     

   21950 peer-review journals (including more than 3600 free-access journals)

     280 commercial publications

      More than 560 book series

      Eight million conference articles from 100,000 global events

   Articles in the publication process from more than 8000 journals

      More than 150,000 books with an annual increase of 20,000 volumes

      More than 62.4 million records after 1969

      More than 6.6 million records before 1970 with the oldest record of 1788

      More than 39 million patent registration licenses from five patent registration organizations

    100% Medline coverage

 

Scopus supports librarians and researchers in three fields:

A) Searching

      Search documents, authors, organizations, or use the advanced search

      Review results by source title, year, language, author, organization and more

      Link to the full text of articles and library resources

      Use QUOSA degree to download mass recovery of results in the PDF form

      Transfer information to resource management software such as Mendeley and EndNote

   Possibility of activating email alerts

B) Finding

      Finding documents related to resource sharing, authors, or keywords

      Identifying and matching an organization using its research output and an organizational ID

      Identifying colleagues or subject specialists with the author's ID

      Identifying oneself through integration with ORCID

      Benefits of indexing with global recovery services: EBSCOHost, Primo, and call

      Ability to cooperate with ScienceDirect, Mendeley, SciVal, Reaxys, and others

C) Analyzing

Following up citations over time for a series of authors or documents with tracker/browser citation 

Assessing the processes in search results by analyzing the search results

Observing H-index for specific authors

Analyzing the publication output of authors by author assessor

Increasing the perspective toward journal efficiency with CiteScore, SNIP, and SJR