Working on Scopus.com What we will do for you in 2021
Marcel Vonder Sr Product Director, Scopus 2 Increase success for users in their most important tasks!
Size of bubble indicates the proportion of visits undertaking this task (106-932) MOST Scopus.com visitors were asked about the purpose of their visit and how successful their SUCCESSFUL visit was overall. (R12M, N=3024) Refer to academic performance Identify/assess/track potential metrics in reviewing an research collaborators or application commercial partners Track my own performance Track my peers or colleagues
Review relevant scholarly output Choose a reviewer for a Identify an appropriate journal to on a topic, in reviewing a manuscript submit my manuscript to manuscript Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in my own field
Assess specific published papers Find inspiration for new Confirm ideas for Obtain information on a subject research/ product or research/products or innovations outside my area of expertise innovation idea are novel Search for a specific article or set
of articles VISITSUCCESS
Perform bibliometric analysis on a set of publications, authors, Identify leading journals in a etc particular research area Gain an in-depth understanding of a topic within my field
LEAST LOW HIGH SUCCESSFUL Importance of task (NPS from users that undertake this task)
Use cases with n<100 excluded Enriching our Researcher Profiles Increasingly helping users look at the world in researcher centric way
3 SCOPUS REDESIGN Author Profile page (launched in Q3, 2020)
Objectives: 1. Easier to scan and clearer call-to-actions 2. Drive users to the Author Feedback Wizard to improve our overall data quality 3. Strengthen authority perception of Scopus and Author Profiles by new, solid UI design
4 What, why, which preprints?
• Precedes publication in a peer-reviewed journal. What are • Deposited at preprint servers. preprints? • Different than Articles-in-Press
• Assess if other researchers are doing cutting edge, innovative research, • Read or assess another researcher’s most recent work Why preprints? • A more comprehensive portfolio overview • Assess funding applications, monitor project progress and demonstrate impact
Which preprints? SCOPUS REDESIGN Preprints on Author Profile page (launched in Q4)
Objectives: 1. Further strengthening Scopus’ best-in-class author profiles 2. Provide a more holistic view of a researcher’s research activity − Recent pre-prints as an indicator of what a researcher is currently working on − In some disciplines pre-prints is the primary publication outlet How do pre-prints appear?
• Preprints will only be made available for authors that already have a profile in Scopus
• Clearly separated from the curated published content.
• Initially no metrics and no citations to and from the preprints and links with the final version of the article will be captured.
• Phase I (Q4/20): 0.6M preprints from last 3 years in ArXiv, BioRxiv, ChemRxiv is estimated to enrich >1M author profiles.
• Phase II (Q1/21): 0.25M pre-prints in SSRN will increase the number of enriched author profiles to 1.4M SCOPUS REDESIGN Awarded Grants on Author Profile page (Q2, 2021)
Objectives: 1. Further strengthening Scopus’ best-in-class author profiles 2. Provide a more holistic view of a researcher’s research activity − Recent awards as an early indication of what a researcher is working on − Indicates if researcher has been successful in applying for competitive funding
8 What else will we have for you this year?
9 Open Access in Scopus today
1. Scopus source of information for OA content is Unpaywall
2. Scopus today only tags “VOR freely available from the publisher” as OA. These include OA articles published in: 1. full OA journals 2. hybrid journals 3. open archive 4. promotional access
3. What is typically referred to as ‘Green OA’, where a version of the article is freely available from another platform than the publisher website is not tagged as ‘OA’ in Scopus | 11 More advanced OA filters for an enhanced reading experience
Proposed OA terms Definition Facets Information label Gold Gold (Open Access- Published version with Creative Commons only journal) license, available on publisher platform. Documents are in journals which only publish open access Hybrid Gold (hybrid Published version with Creative Commons Gold journal) license, available on publisher platform. Documents are in journals which provide authors the choice of publishing open access Bronze Other free-to-read Published version of record or manuscript at Publisher accepted for publication, for which the publisher has chosen to provide temporary or permanent free access. As these documents would normally only be available to subscribers, no Creative Commons license is attached. Green Free-to-read at Published version or manuscript accepted Repository for publication, available at repository. Documents may also be available gold or other free-to-read on the publisher platform UN Sustainable Development Goals
UN SDGs as predefined queries in Advanced Search
Complementing SDG presence in SciVal: • Query the “live” data set for most recent publications • User can edit the query if desired • Analyse SDG publication set using the Scopus filter and sorting options
13 Give those new users Scopus context….quickly! (Q4)
Objective: better onboarding experience by: 1. Providing context to clearly differentiate Scopus from free discovery services (e.g. Google Scholar)
2. Clearer “what’s in it for me?” messaging for researchers
3. Get up-to-speed as quickly as possible Moving on to 2021…
15 Give those new users Scopus context….quickly! (Q1)
Objective: better onboarding experience by: 1. Providing context to clearly differentiate Scopus from free discovery services (e.g. Google Scholar)
2. Clearer “what’s in it for me?” messaging for researchers
3. Get up-to-speed as quickly as possible What do existing users want to see on their homepage? What do existing users want on their homepage? (Q1)
Objectives: 1. Easy for users to pick up their tasks from previous sessions 2. Don’t let them repeat the same actions again Improving ease-of-use on key pages
19 SCOPUS REDESIGN Document details (Q1, 2021)
Objectives: 1. Increase usage of retention drivers (full text links, export, save to list, etc.) 2. Improve visibility of article metrics to strengthen our thought-leadership in research performance evaluation (more metrics to be added soon!)
20 Scopus Views Count on abstract pages
What? • Indicating interest from the (Scopus) research community • Counting abstract views + links to full text • Early indication for impact
How and when? • Q4: on abstract page • Current year • Last full year • Last 10 years • H1: sortable on search results page, multiple year ranges
21 A smarter search (Q2 and beyond)
Objective:
1. Get more relevant search results more quickly
2. Increase search and page load performance Improved linking to full text (Q1) Higher quality linking, higher coverage!
23 Mendeley web importer will replace Scopus DDM (Q4) Easy, accurate and broad access to paid content and OA repositories (up to 70M publications!)
Elsevier subscription GetFTR 16.9m articles & OA (bespoke (Springer, Wiley, ACS & 28.2m (shibboleth) license) (IP-auth) T&F) IP-auth support to be added in Q4
OA (cc-by) PDFs hosted 2.7m on Mendeley GetFTR collaboration between 5 publishers, including Elsevier OA PDF links to build a cross-publisher entitlement system making 21.6m (1findr / Unpaywall) one-click access possible through discovery services, like Scopus.
Alternative PDF links 10m (1findr) Integrating Expert Lookup capability into Scopus Going beyond finding reviewers!
26 PEOPLE FINDER A “researcher finder” solution supports a broad variety of user needs
Find a potential collaborator Find reviewers to guide your funding allocation decisions
Find similar researchers to evaluate someone else / yourself KOL/SME identification
Find candidates to fill a vacancy
Put together the best Industry academia team to win a grant partnerships SCREEN EXAMPLES
Step 1: submit text or keywords
Quick start with a long text search - shown as default Or option to search by keyword
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Starting points by use case with optimized flows for different use cases SCREEN EXAMPLES Step 2: optimize fingerprint
• Allow precise pinpointing
• Optimized hierarchy
• Make use of thesauri SCREEN EXAMPLES Step 3: filter, refine and select
• Clear guiding copy
• Filters to refine search
• Option to save and edit the search & fingerprint
• View results in a network
• Link to export for deep analysis in SciVal SCREEN EXAMPLES Step 3: explore researcher profiles
• Supporting information from Scopus Author Profiles and matching details as preview • Our product launches for Q4 this year
Improve our search and analytical capabilities: Improve the Scopus API for better workflow • Adding more advanced OA filters integration: • Scopus view counts on abstract pages • Redesigning the Developer Portal for easier • Redesigning our homepage for better support of access and easier implementation of the API existing users and easier onboarding new users • Improving documentation and training materials for easier onboarding • Adopt Scopus view counts of abstracts in the API for early indication of impact
Help users look at the world in researcher centric Enable a smoother interaction within our product way portfolio: • Introduce 600K recent pre-prints on author profiles • Viewing the latest publications across the SciVal’s for a more complete and up-to-date view on their UN SDGs in Scopus work • Aligning our research performance metrics with • Cleaning up our author pages to support easier SciVal scanning of relevant information What are we working on in 2021?
Improve our search and analytical capabilities: Improve the Scopus API for better workflow integration: 1. Improving our coverage, accuracy and ease-of-use for 1. Including Scopus view counts of an author’s publication downloading full text cross-publisher subscription and OA history in the API publications 2. Complete metadata parity between Scopus.com and the 2. Enhancing our search capabilities (e.g. auto-suggest) and Scopus APIs. significantly improve speed 3. Continue to improve the Developer Portal for easier 3. Improving the analytical capabilities for search results access and easier API implementation (e.g. sorting by Scopus views count) 4. Redesigning our key pages: document and author search 5. Continuing to improve our homepage for better support of existing users (e.g. alerts on activities within my network) 6. Making Scopus mobile-friendly
Help users look at the world in researcher centric way Enable a smoother interaction within our product 1. Introducing awarded grants and PlumX metrics to author portfolio: profiles for a more complete and up-to-date view on their 1. Integrating Expert Lookup capability for “finding work researchers” for recruitment, finding collaborators and 2. Introducing better tracking capabilities on author profiles tenure/promotion activities to keep up-to-date with the latest developments 2. Exploring publications within Topics of Prominence 3. Increasing pre-prints coverage by adding the SSRN 3. Introducing article level subject classifications in Scopus repository and SciVal: UN SDGs, MoE (China) Thank you for listening!
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