Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Thank you so much, Dan. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Let me put the first Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So I thought that. Okay, good. We're good to go. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So before I talk about it really is Scopus it I start talking about a trend that I see in the industry and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): One of those areas I talk about is a publishing and this is from perspective, Elsevier. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): These are the trends of how much we publish as Elsevier, a year to
year. And you can see from the last decade or 15 years the there's an increase in the growth Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): from year to year on how much we put an published in each year last year. Elsevier published about the close to half a million articles which is really a 60% increase from a decade ago, and this is Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Find out to be about like 1000 articles each day from Elsevier get published. And this, again, this is just Elsevier, what's really interesting here is to see ho
w much is being submitted versus what being published Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So you can see that orange line over one over one and a half a million document being submitted every year, only about 29% is being published out of the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Document and the rest of them are rejected for many reasons, and mostly actually especially from Elsevier point of view, I now speak from really Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Generically from other publishers and the high quality publisher will have t
he same kind of trend so Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The reason for rejection is mostly the quality. So, and a publisher that cares about the reputation of their journals and what Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): They offer to their users and readers. They always look for quality published in quality material. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And why they are rejected because it's just the material that gets submitted is not the quality material worth being published so you see on the table on the left side is Sawah,
Abdul (ELS-HBE): The growth of submission which increase about 8.2% and what's being published about 4% has not kept with that submission Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Not to mention in the middle you see the rejection. So the rejection is getting rate is higher every year. And that's really scary. And if you think about it from why people I publishers reject. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Articles is just because they are not quality material and the old. You can see I'm a, I'm an old person is not in fro
m last 10 years in college. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That I mean I've been in college in the early days when I was studying. We used to have the term of garbage in, garbage out whatever you get Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): In to lock into the computer code, you get you get out it's it's really the same concept applies here. If you read the garbage material you can generate garbage. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Output or articles. And that's really where this the heart of this lie data articles being reject
ed from concept. I always talk about when you start to your research and you learn those skills. You got to have a good skill from the beginning. So you can have a good output. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): When you publish or you conduct your research. So don't start your, your research in and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Scientific and found it and then I usually people pick on Google, which is really a legitimate Google any other search engine that is not peer reviewed. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Has to gi
ve your sources. It's a great tool to go after those scientific and peer reviewed platform that provides you with the quality material and sources. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So we certainly understand today. There's so many data available so many so much information for our researchers and it's very challenging for our researchers to Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Pick and choose the good information to quality information and to stay up to date. There's so much wealth of information available in scienti
fic literature today. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So, and then decipher which wonder level is not reliable is just not a, not an easy task. So I have few things that really can you know for you as an early research or or postdocs and you're going to carry those skills and move on. Train yourself a train you. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Get the skills that help you get into the routine of looking at the data from reliable sources. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And some of those reliable sources like an article
on Discovery business services like scope is what a science and any other services that you trust and your institution trust, rather than going after. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): In a simple as simple as Google's, to be honest with you. And I'm not saying, do not use as Google or Google Scholar. They awesome Wilson information out there about your, your, your Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Initial and your starting point should be from something more reliable. Why because discovery services usually have d
esigned to support that kind of quality a scholarly literature. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Many of those discovery services have peer reviewed literature and they tell you what are these sources. So it's not like you know you are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Searching some kind of Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Sources that an unknown or just the flyby that's it just showed up, believe it or not, is over 10,000 fraudulent to journalists today that even some people do not know what these are predatory Sawah, Ab
dul (ELS-HBE): Journals. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): We don't sell a platform like again the source and discovery services like Scopus or any other services with that. And this is why we are here today. They are consistent in Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Their research, they are not designed to cater to one versus another. There's no ads. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): They always tell you you know your first today your search tomorrow you will get the same result if not more, based on the indexing. So you're s
aying the community can bring you back in the same result, time after time Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And you really did. There is all explained how they reach to that result and I use this statement here with our mission and I don't have to tell you a whole lot about Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The mission of us in research area is that that today. Our society is facing a lot of difficulties and challenges on having a trusted science interesting facts and I it's our obligation to cheat to pass on the
knowledge and information and also the skills to do scientific Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Thinking and the literacy among the people we interact with people we teach in the people we Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Work with in general and hence why we are talking about Scopus today. So definitely, I'm in a from what we Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Discussed earlier and what's been in why we focus on and valid and in peer reviewed literature is we want to go after those platforms that are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE)
: Victorious and they are trusted and they are used by know Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): A lot of institutions for quality decision quality research and I do have something actually it's something really interesting for especially for this post docs, so hang on with me. Just a couple more slides. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So I talking about Scopus what ages Scopus covers is a source neutral app second citation database or there's not there's no full text in Scopus, you're only searching app stack and S
awah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): All the sources in the scope of our peer reviewed so you're not going to say anything not be reviewed and source. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Data in Scopus, or they did the database content. It is not from Elsevier contract to a lot of people think it's only Elsevier contents, actually it's not if the data comes from was five more than 5000 publishers Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And Elsevier content, only then actually constitutes 10% of the database. There are over 24,000 cereal
titles on in Scopus, and over 230,000 books all of that generate the the the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You will see the model and talking. It will talk about in a second. There's over actually we passed the 80 million articles in the scope is that generate over 70,000 affiliation profiles and over 16 million author profiles, which we're going to talk about in a little bit. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So Scopus beside that data that it has also generate or provide you with Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): An a
nalytical tools. So you can see things from Hi, I'd like a bird's eye view and it's very powerful to let us see things and see trends tick is to get insights Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Rather than just sit down and read, but it doesn't provide you the readership. But there's tools will help you make decisions quickly just to get an overview Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): More on the sources they are over. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): 42 terabyte of data in Scopus, which I'm going to come back to that at the en
d. And for those who are moving on to something more professional research. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): They are our point 1.7 billion citations. So all the data comes into scope is not only the content comes in and index, but also citations comes with that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And again we generate all those profiles out of it Scopus data can go back to 1788 but the citations and references. Go back to 1974 the fact that nobody track citations and references before that time and the information
is not really complete or accurate before that 1970 Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So what exactly you're looking at in Scopus Scopus is a global and I have something really interesting for you an eye opener in the next slide. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So I did mention that the scope is data or content comes from over 5000 publishers, which are spread out all over the world. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Is over in this content come from over 105 different countries that obviously now they do the original art
icles written different languages let you know that covered over 40 different languages. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): But the abstract in the scope is and that's one of the condition that if an A are not a title. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Is going to be on the scope scope is database. That means it going. Each published work has to have an English abstract and that's actually what you are searching. So even if if look at the article, the origin article written in different language, the abstract always
in English. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So scope of human resource SCOTUS today and get some, you know, certain number of results if you run it tomorrow. As I mentioned earlier, you will get maybe higher results. Most of the time. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And because we bring over 10,000 articles every day. And with that comes also the citation. So you may see some number of citations and references on certain articles today, tomorrow that number may increase. So it's very dynamic. Sawah, Abdul (ELS
-HBE): There's over it. If you are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Let's say you don't have access to certain Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Full Text Scopus, let me get back up Scopus does have a link. So when you find an article, it does link you to the full text. If it's available. So if it's an open access, you definitely have access to that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Where's the article is stored. But if it's something is subscription through a Western Western Michigan, you can get access to that. And then
also, if it's not available to you full text for Western Michigan. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Scopus wolf is just also an alternative word. You can find it. So there's over over 10 million articles on scope is that are open access, and it comes from over. Can I think over 6000 is your nose. Now, Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The document types that you see on the scope is not just optical form journals. You can see conference papers. You can see books and book series conference papers are huge. And here
we go. Actually, you can see them. The full broad Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Spectrum of the document type and how much of each. And you can see that and look at him for horizontally and vertically Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Is just the lighting a breadth and depth of everything available out there, so you're not searching and missing certain type of document when you search. And also you're not missing on any subject area. So whatever your subject is you can find Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): a wealth of c
ontent on Scopus, I'm not going to go through this individually in this something available for you to look at Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): But what's really interesting and more important is to know is something about Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Scope of content. And I mentioned earlier where the data comes from and scope is pumping. So this is the interesting slide. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can see the red is a while. Let me back up a little bit. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): We have you we've seen a rese
arch output from the Western Hemisphere. You know, most of the, you know, in the past. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): All the research and the articles are published work comes from the Western Hemisphere. In the early days more than 1015 years ago. Let's look at the red bar, how it's increasing. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Continuously and that's because if we are seeing an increase and higher rate from the western Eastern hemisphere. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So that means like, you know, you're seeing con
tent now on a global level, and then I did mention in a conference on Scopus that the data. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Is can come from 105 different countries. So you see, if I could look at the 2020 that rates that are the gap between the yellow and the red bar is just a shrinking compared to what you see in 2019 Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And that is just because of the amount of the data coming out of the Eastern hemisphere. Why this is important to you, because there's so much research and so muc
h out was coming out of Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The East or even globally. Let's put it this way, and any database or any kind of look a Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Search engine that does not provide you a global content, it's not really giving you the whole picture. And that's why we're Scopus comes in Scopus data is a global as Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): We talked about earlier. And that's how we recover, not just the Western Hemisphere data, but also we cover on what what's being published from the
Eastern hemisphere. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And you can see these numbers. I mean, there's numbers comparing obviously scope as to whether science and why it's the global coverage on the scope is is just more Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Important than then scheduling to certain Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Western Hemisphere, or local published work. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So I'd be remiss not to talk about the scope of data model. So in order to understand really what's scope is data model it mean may
be the result of Scopus, and also the the analytical tool you're going to understand the data model. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Scopus data model rely on three a triangular relationship between three things, which is the article, the author and the institution. So the content of the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Scope is Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Tells you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): There's an article written by an author and that author is an affiliated by an institution. This model is always tell you who is
doing what and where they are doing it and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And then, what then what capacity. So it just you know that model used to work in many ways. And you can see it an analytical tool in many ways. But the really the focal point here is the author Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And this is good takes me back to what I talked about at the beginning is our also our researchers Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The most important things in in the research because going back to that concept garbage in
, garbage out. If you don't have the right skills, you don't have the right information in the beginning, you are not going to have a quality out with em. The end. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So why consulted on the authors. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Because they are the the folk the focal point of the article itself and the institution. So this is a data model. Anytime you are in Scopus on any results. If you are looking at the document you just say started by the subject area you are Sawah, Abdul (E
LS-HBE): You can look at the topic, but also you can see who is doing that work, which is are the authors. If you start with the author. You can see what the author has been doing, he or she Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And who they are affiliated with as an institution. So where they are doing that research. If you are at the institution data and looking at the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Institution profile, we can tell you, or Scopus can tell you anytime, how much work they have been doing and what in
what area like in what subject area and who are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Their author who are working with this. So you can see this relationship triangle relationship constantly prevalent in Scopus results anytime. So you can jump from one to the other. At anytime you have one you have the other two. Most of the time. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So I did where I again concentrate on the author or the researchers and I can talk about this concept in two ways. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And authors alwa
ys have to have these two areas of evaluation and showcase, you can always showcase what you've been doing in order for you to showcase what you've been doing. You have to evaluate Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So you are either you evaluator or somebody evaluated you you with that. And you can see just that relationship, why it's always important. And the researcher is the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Focal Point A researcher has relationship with three different entities, all the time. Why, because to su
rvive into to work. They have to have that relationship. They can have a relationship with an institution to get hired so they can get the resources or they are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Increase their improve their career of what they are working with why they are working while they are working with that institution. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And also they can institution has to evaluate the author or the researcher. So for many reasons to be hired to be provided more resources to continue on with
a resource to provide funding. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): My relationship as an author or researcher also going to be with other people. So other researchers why because I wanted to look at Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): People that people see my work in shortcut. So I'm going to show them my work, so they can see and read my work, I get cited and increase my impact. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Maybe they would like to collaborate with me as a researcher on the flip side when other people and evaluates me. It
's the same kind of symbiotic relationship if we're looking for people, other resources to collaborate with they are going to read my articles. They are also Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): maybe want to do a review review on my work. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): For the same relationship goes with funders so funders can either Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You're applying for fun. They want to show your case your work or the funder is going to evaluate your work, so they can approve your funding. So this kind of
relationship really focus only on the, the author. So the author researcher is the the most important part in any kind of research. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So going back to our talking in Scopus, so I will. I'm going to go through the three areas and how you can search them and have you can jump from one to the other. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The first of all is a search and discovery in Scopus, you know why you want to do a search and discovery in Scopus, you just for many reason is different re
ason why you you conduct your research. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): On a scope as your thoughts with a discovery to see what impact and and before I get into that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Be I'll be neglecting something to show you how you can access Scopus covers is for Western Michigan. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Isn't by IP so you don't, you really have to have to have an ID and password to access Scopus, all you have to do is type smokers.com and you are in Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): However you kid I
always recommend that you create an ID. So you need to do that while you are at Western Michigan on campus. The first time you click on Create an Account. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And then you can just use an ID and password and, subsequently, you can click on the sign in and you'll be able to Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Access scope is from in or outside campus, the ID and password will allow you to have a profile allowed to have saved searches history alert and forward. I mean, that's just like an
y other services really nothing fancy on that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So this is what I wanted to get into the point of doing a search and discovery. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can use the scope of for anything to see what's being researched what's being done out there. What kind of output if you want to differentiate your work. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): From other people. So you want to see what's been research on that topic and you want to do something different from that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HB
E): And you want to track the impact of research, who, who is doing what and where and what kind of impact this has been Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Going on, maybe you want to differentiate your work because this topic has less impact. Maybe we want to do something a little bit different. Maybe you're tracking or doing research on Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): It disease, what kind of impact it has on certain societies geographical area or even, you know, on a global level, if you will. You want to find
Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You know the relevant information to something you are setting. And, you know, this is a great tool for that you want to stay stay current on the field. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That are of interest to you and maybe you win or you want to become a reviewer on editor you want to, you know, again, all the data that you're looking for isn't matter of on a broad level to see what's happening today. And what's being published so you'll be up to date on that information. Sawah,
Abdul (ELS-HBE): The basic search scope. It does have like both advanced and the basic search. So as simple as well as you can search Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The, the, with a basic search. You can search the article title, abstract and keyboard that that's the by default, but you can change that. If you click on the drop down Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): option here, you can have different fields. You can search if you would like, if you're looking for something specific. But anytime you know when yo
u are in Scopus you run the basic search Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Go up, it's going to come by default search norms to the field, the abstract that title and the keyboard and it will highlight as you see in yellow here in the document where it's found your Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Keyword or the word that the or the terms you put in there. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And as you see scope is just like any platform, you can, you know, really easy to search. There's nothing complicated about it. And ther
e's only four tabs. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The document the author and the affiliation. Again, go. Those are the three that Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That I talked about at the beginning, which are the data model of Scopus, and also you have an advanced tab. If you are interested in doing more advanced search that you can stack a lot of terms you can use the Advanced tab to search by field individually or spec your Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Terms. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Once you have your results
you can narrow down your results in focus it based on the facet on the left side. So whatever you're looking Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Something in the like certain years or by authored by subject area and so forth, you can really filter your data to narrow down your search. I always Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Say this start with, with little as much as you look with the terms, not to expand your search on any of those filters. Just to give you a source of broad Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Terms, they sa
y, with less you get more. So that's where it apply here I would start saying, you know, you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Terms without narrowing down your search and then narrow down your resolve with with the facets, so you don't miss anything. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Once you have your research results and you narrow down your search through the final set, you can use either can start reading. You can also look at the abstract and in each document or all collectively by view. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE
): Abstract Can she see here will show all abstract and can see them on the screen, or you can see the bird I view birth ICU. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Of the articles of the result by using the analyzed search results. And that's where things start getting, you know, more fun for you to look at the data from graphical or visualizing the data rather than Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Just read each article. So that's really taking the facets and put them in visualization for you. And you can see how man
y articles published each year. So, you know, it could be based on a year, it could be based on May sources. The authors. The affiliation. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Territory and so forth. There's so many facets available for you. You can visualize this individually and you can get bought by the way these widgets are, you can click on them individually and become larger Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): It should document in Scopus would have also metrics. So you can see the metrics. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE):
Number of citation on Scopus the field way to citation impact and diplomats metrics. So if you could be me a second, please. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): I'm sorry, running out of breath. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Fields way to citation is a very interesting here. We provide you don't see that actually admin in actually in any other databases. And this is really Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Really relevant in Scopus, and doors metrics are not proprietary to Elsevier this I would
call snowball metrics and those are agreed on by a consortium of academics. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And the formula. If you go to snowball metrics calm he will see those metrics and you can calculate calculate them you'll yourself so you can see the formula. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So the food where citation impact is really, it tells you where this article stands, it can comparison to other articles in that field. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): An article published in a medical journals may not be re
ally it medical articles or it could be, let's say biomedical engineering. So it may qualify for an engineering article Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So you can really want to. You don't want to compare articles in depth journals to other articles in the same journalism because they do have Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Different kind of weight. An article in mass may have different kind of citations, nor does article medicine. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So, feel the way the citation come to play a role here t
o tell you that this article is compared to other articles in the same field where it stands so this article is above Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Anything above one one is your normally is equal if it's anything above one means better than the average citation of other articles in the same field. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So that's why I feel very excited to tell you this article is very valuable. It's a. It has a higher impact than an average article and it also in the metric. We show you the plumbin
g metrics. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): How many citations. How much, how many citations that article has received beyond the scope is or even Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The scientific area more if you hear those metrics network clinics clinics metrics and as a matter of fact, I think I have one more slide to explain this. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Also tells you which look on the bottom is square that the number of citation number of document that cited this article. So there are 228 documents. Sawah, Ab
dul (ELS-HBE): That side of this article in the past and you can view them even Scopus will provide you with those document. Tell you what, there Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Which document side of this document. So actually here. Here's the planets. If you click on the View or view all metrics. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The all the metrics that compressible expand and start give you all this information on Braga level, including the plumbing metrics at one more slide Flemish metrics that are included,
which Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Metrics comes from, or the citation come from different kind of platform outside the databases. Think about the users mentioned but bookmark social media. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Regular regular media like radio and newspapers, a blog scientific of blogs and so forth. It's kind of really even Twitter and Facebook. So mostly Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): From scientific sources, actually, even if they are social media, but more are deemed as a scientific not an average Pe
arson Facebook, for example, but you've got to really give you more metrics on the article outside the regular Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Citation in art and other articles. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So we talked about the document itself. How you go after the document your source him. But now the second Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): leg of the triangle which is the authors, again, we talked about the authors are being the pillar of everything and the research. So the author profile is one of the valuable
features in Scopus that provide you know is yours. Let me put no taxes. I don't have to worry about it. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So, the author of course is a really good starting point for many reasons, either to come to it or to start from it. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): At the beginning so you can decide if you know Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): From author profile, you're looking for people to collaborate with to partner with on Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Research is a great tool to see who has been who i
s an expert in that field. Obviously, people who publish more get citation more they're an expert in that field. So those are people you can partner with Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can track a career by looking at the H index, which is really tell you how many citation. You've, you've had compared to the number of articles. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Maybe you want to showcase your work that we talked about earlier. Why do you as a researcher has a relationship with other you want to showcase your
work. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): To an institution to funders and the other people. So you can see you and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Evaluate you and also maybe partner with you. Maybe we're looking for experts in certain fields you want to hire them on a panel or work with you on certain project, the author profile is a great tool for that maybe when you hire somebody bring people to join your team. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Yeah, author profiles is just an awesome way to do to get started with a str
oke. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So the second tab on the scope is is the author. So you can look for authors by names. That's one way to go after them or you can look, look at, look them by Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You know, if you have the full name. If not, you can just browse through them, if you will, if you have any information about Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You know, last name, maybe. Or if you don't have the full information, an orchid ID or in an institution where they where they have been af
filiated with. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And I put the numbers went to a city on the top. That is something that I'm really proud of to to us with the scope is I always publicize this Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): There's no other service out there that you can get to them an author profiled with a three clicks, no more. So, Nicholas and you can have an author profile. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So when you have a new the author name with immediately, you're going to get a list of the names as similar if i
t's a unique name, you're going to get that immediately. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Our that profile immediately. So that's what I always say that you cannot get that anywhere else. Three clicks and you're an author profiles. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And author profile in Scopus, which actually this is a new format of the author profile we have added more features into it. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): If you've seen it before at that look at different that's realized this is just released last week. As a
matter of fact. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So when they're off our profile will provide you with the name and the where they are, which institution, the affiliated with if they were affiliated with other institution in the past, we can. You can also see it here. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So if this person has been affiliated with other institution. You can see where he or she had been working and publishing in the past. Whoops. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Policy is supposed to come up. So on the left si
de you will see the metrics for that author, including the how many document this author published. How many citations and their index. You can see it throughout their career in the middle where Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): How many documents they publish and how many citations all the graphics and on the bottom you will see those documents and this Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Lewis has published over 674 document and you can see there's documents on the bottom. If you click on that tab you will see thos
e actual document and you can see the document that cited Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Lewis documents. So you can see there was cited by 404,960 my index is really high. And you can see who his co authors and what topic is being publishing and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can take this information. As a matter of fact, and also analyze it. So you can see the same tools in a similar way for the author. You can see where this author has been publishing, what type of document is in publishing and what s
ubject area. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Tracking an author. So there's two that I just mentioned showed you. Actually, they do come back with all the widgets. So these would just really give you a bird's eye view but bird's eye view for the his performance or her performance throughout the year. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And then throughout their career as a matter of fact. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Let me jump into the affiliation profile. We're doing good on time yet so Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Any qu
estions here. Yeah. Juliana Espinosa: Yes, we did have a question in the chat about how to identify a fraudulent journals and more reliable one Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Oh my goodness. Let me pause for that to the end. This is totally outside here but Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Actually I do have when I get to the point on a journal. I do have something to show you. But I have Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): One more piece outside here. Juliana Espinosa: And I think you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Get you to th
at. Hopefully we have enough time to go through it. It's a great tool. As a matter of fact. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So let me talk about the affiliation profile fish and profiles is similar to the author profile, where we collect information about that institution. So again, Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The author is definitely isn't what institution but this information together. So the institution can you can track an institution, see what the sentence you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): What the instituti
on has been performing. Let's talk about Western Michigan. You can see what's, what's the Michigan has been performing and one subject area. What were they, it's been redoing research, who the author is how many documents have been published out of Western Michigan. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Going back to the concept of showcasing and and evaluating an institution wants to show what they've been doing. So why such to attract talent to come in work and study after the institution conduct research,
but also to attract fun. So if other institutions or funders, do not Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Know what you've been working on. Yeah, and I trust they give you the fun. So it is why these in affiliation profile is really important in here as much as the author profile. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And you want to evaluate team and based on performance. So, let's say, as a matter of fact, you will see in Scopus Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Not just a high level of institution but also based on what been sub
mitted each document may be associated or Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Connected with certain division under that higher institution so Alyssa, for example, there are certain articles out of Western Michigan affiliated with the School of Medicine or different departments. So that's how we compare how the institution is performing on that lower level. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): What's the affiliation profile look like you can see the kind of figure with like a resume or Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): CV can see
the institution name. What can a variety of name maybe as a matter of fact, they may, this may not be prevalent in the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Academic but in the other institutions, especially government institution their names changed a lot. Even corporate. As a matter of fact that change name throughout the year. So she tracking Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Information by the institution, if they have used different name in the past, you may not pick it up. But that's why the profile. It comes in
really handy if it detects this information and collecting information for you and Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Sources all together in one profile and it gives you that changing them in the name of the institution so you don't miss any any article Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So you also, again, you see the document affiliated for for the whole institution but also only for that institution. So they are Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): There's any other division affiliated with the institution we segregate and w
e can see the difference between the number because we do have different Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Division and our Western Michigan that have different published work under a different name. And also you can see the authors. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That this document, published by over 4000 authors. If you click those numbers are clickable. By the way, Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can click on the 4000 and you can go after those authors to see who they are, who are publishing on the bottom, you se
e the document by subject area where Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Western Michigan has been publishing. Publishing and what subject area and who is being collaborating with with some Michigan here, you click on a tab, you can see that Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And where Western Michigan has a big publishing. So you can see the sources what titles. So that's one thing, actually, this is good. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): paint on the subject of fact of, you know, find a journal to publishing. If you're thrus
t the institution. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Decision to publish in certain sources you can get go after this. This is one avenue, not the avenue one avenue defined if other people have your institution trusting those journalists. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You should probably put from two and then publishing does journals and also you see on the right side of the pie chart in the subject area where the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Percentage wise, where the institution has been publishing. So you can see
again the same analytical tool is available for you and the affiliations be go drill into this one at a time. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And this leads me to the last portion which is really a journal analyzer. So going back to that concept of finding predatory Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): There's your life is really not just for one thing you can compare journal see each other, whether you want to find insight on reading where you went to read, whether you want to define your journal that you want to
publish. And so this is also one way to Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Find fraudulent. So these kind of platform, including Scopus, like I said, Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): It's one of the sources on on Scopus is only a peer review. So yeah, you really somebody else which is really a board. As a matter of fact, the content. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Behind the scope is evaluated by a in the individual or independent board with content selection is Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): An advisory board. They are experts
in the field. They are not affiliated with Elsevier, they just evaluate titles and the game as peer reviewed and they put clear them to be available on Scopus, and they constantly evaluated actually every two years. So if this board already Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Evaluated those titles for you. So anything new and allies on Scopus in the forces, you know, it's get reviewed, you don't have to worry about. So this is one of really great forces to find is your nose to publish in so it's not Sawah,
Abdul (ELS-HBE): A fraud, you know for sure. It's not a fraudulent titles. But that's not what I was talking about this. So something else I would like Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): To refer you to leave it as Eva and also you can compare journals and using your analyzer with a life to compare to. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Each other. For retention or acquisition. So how you can get to the journal analyzer on this campus when you are in Scopus, you click on the sources and you will see on the right sid
e. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Okay, before you do that, if you click on sources you type in, let's say, a journal name, you can look at his own name by the title, but also you can look them up by subject area, if you will. So if you know going after. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Evaluating different journals by subject again click on that title here changed from titles to subject area and you will see a list of journals. So let's say we type a journal name to see what kind of you want to evaluate that j
ournal. Once you click on the fine. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Journal come up here, you click on it and you will see Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Think of it like information about journal or a resume on the journal, technically, so you will see different kind of information on it, including the five score if you're not from there. If you are not familiar with five score. It's really similar to the impact factor, but only for Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Three years or two years. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You
can see also the schematic. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Metrics and the snip metrics. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): For that journals and you will see on the top here, compare for Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Computing sources is where you can start stacking different names of journals. When you're certain and you can compare them to each other because Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): It tells you, for example, around here a name for fitness. You can see a list of journalists to select them and you can see now how thi
s text each other by metrics by citations and so forth and publication and so forth. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So these are the metrics are available for you on every journal as a size score the schema go on the snip. So you can see that on every source. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And that's it, actually. So let me recap, we talked about the global content is really important in Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Discovering first and discovered. This is why Scopus is really good value for you. It has more glob
al content than any other database up there. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Because can be used for differentiate your work from others. You want to decide what you want to Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Publish. And also, who you want to collaborate with identify and analyze your own as if we just saw. Now, and you can help you as a resource or two. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Throughout your career went through, you know, increasing better your careers for your citation counting evaluate other institutions, the
same time. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And I'll be since I'm talking to professionals who are going out to the field. Maybe if we can be professional, even if you're doing work within the institution. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): There's, I want to be remiss not to mention that scope is does have an API that available for you for free as part of the subscription. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You can use the API to extract data out of the scope is and you can crush it through algorithm. If you're doing analys
is or repository. You want to do your algorithms through Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): On the API on Scopus data, you can use that API or we have something also custom data where we can take the data in chunks and give it to you if that's something of an interest to you would be happy to. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Work with you on that. This is the link I have and for the if you haven't seen it in the chat is the link I have for the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): For the presentation. If you would like to down
load it. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Alright. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Any questions. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Please unmute yourself if you'd like to. You don't have to drop it in the search while I'm actually working on something for FIFA for the Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Final findings journals actually or differently knowing, knowing if it's going to put a three or not. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): I do have something for you. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Any questions, you're in Juliana Espinosa: Now. No, I
do not see any questions so far, but I'm going to add the link to your presentation slides again at the bottom. In case folks don't want to miss the scrolling up Juliana Espinosa: But please feel free to read anything in the chat or I'm going to unmute myself and you're welcome to to unmute yourself and ask any questions. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Yeah, well, I'm working on this. Give me a minute until I pop that out actually really would be helpful to all of you. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): When I lo
ok at the journals. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): I should remember this, my heart to be honest with you, but Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Unfortunately I don't use it very often. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): NO QUESTION, FOLKS. I mean, Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Good, good. Juliana Espinosa: Is there any plan to add Juliana Espinosa: Content to Scopus Juliana Espinosa: Thank you Michelle for asking that question. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Very good question. So actually this content is based on Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HB
E): I'm going to say two, maybe three factors. One, we did a lot of physician from Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Users. So we do have actually if you're interested. I also looked at, I do have that link, you can suggest any titles and the board will evaluate those titles and Adam to Scopus if the demon peer reviewed. Doesn't matter where the subject, as you saw also Scopus Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): does cater to just about all the four different subject area, but it's still we can differently. We have m
ore Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Work to expand on the social and humanity. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That subject area. But anyway, up if you wonder where you can suggest it yourself. Our the publishers over journalists do make sure they also make physician, so their work. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Be published on Scopus or index on Scopus, and the board itself usually go out and select so I'm not going to sit tell you that what we have in the pipeline, if it's going to be in or not, but you're welcome
to suggest that if they find it to peer review, they will Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): They will add it. And then I know a lot of my customers. As a matter of fact, they do. As a matter fact just this week from one of my customers in Washington state is this is something and we added that in Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Still looking for that link bench. I can do multitasking blocking. Look at the same time. Juliana Espinosa: I really appreciated the slide on the on the institution. I guess I never really
thought about looking at Juliana Espinosa: My institution or other institutions and looking at it from that way. And what other journals, Mike, you know, our faculty or our publishing into that was really fascinating. Thank you for sharing that. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): They're absolutely there's really Scopus is not just one thing to be honest with you, I think of it like a Rubik's Cube, you can look at it from different point of views and you can have Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): different answers.
And for whatever purpose is not just for one thing. And that's really what I most of the time advocates with my with the users. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That you can use as you see now. I mean, who would thought that you can use Scopus for analyzing journals and the data is in there, the metrics are in there, why not take advantage of somebody who already went through the vetting and being those Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Are those titles are peer reviewed so that's one area. So I work also with th
e federal government. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And this is when this is like a while, a while ago. It came to me a question can how can we find people to put on a panel. So like they are experts in Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Certain field so that we want to find people who we can hire put them on those panels, even within the institution or outside the institutions. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And so, by golly, the author profiles is nothing better than that is just like a resume for people without even
reaching to those people are contacting the steeple. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): One thing I would tell you, kind of really interesting. Not many people notice that that even the author profiles can help you find conflict of interest. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So if an individual that you're planning to hire you know that this person has worked with different institution that your institution should not be working with that institution because of that, I don't know, could be in secrecy could be a Saw
ah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Conflict of interest, whatever. It makes it, you know, maybe there's some kind of litigation, if you will. That's a great tool for that that Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): To find a conflict of interest. Why is this person should not be on your team, or you can be on that panel. So again, using the, the, oh I found finally Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The author profile is a great tool for that. Juliana Espinosa: Well, thank you. I wanted to take because we're right at 1059 thank you fo
r sharing all of that information and for everyone for joining us today. Juliana Espinosa: I'm gonna before I hand it back over to you. I just wanted to highlight that in the chat. Juliana Espinosa: I put the link to other libraries skills week's events. So please feel free to join us. We have more session today and throughout the rest of the week. And we're always looking for feedback, so please Juliana Espinosa: Feel free if you have some time to quickly fill out that survey, but I just wanted
to say thank you so much. I really, really appreciate your time and energy this morning. So thank you. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You're very welcome. And I will close with this one actually Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Great, by all means, by the way, after I finish. If you have any questions or if you would like to chat with me, send me the email and not be happy to do one on one. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): I mean, that's what I do. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): But this is I'm not advocating for Elsevier, bu
t every publisher actually has something very similar to this. This is a journal finder that Elsevier calm. As a matter of fact, let me Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Paste it for you and you can't you can folks use it and you can go with it. But I'm going to get you started with this. This is so simple. I couldn't even remember journal finder. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That this is a really good tool. You'll be surprised, a matter of fact, if I Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): If I'm going to just get started he
re and let you take a look. You can fill any of this information, you can pop it publicly, you know, put an excerpt of Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Information from Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): An article and you can see One piece. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): This is great tool. Again, this is not just for Elsevier, you can find it on any Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Publisher. So I'm going to grab a piece of information. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): You will get a lot of great tool here. So a lot of good information f
rom the journal Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): It's give you a information about any other journals that get a notice from the abstract that I put in there or the keyword start detecting what kind of document is that, and it's also give you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Some statistics and also if you want to publish in the going back to him as a question. If you want to know if the journal predatory or not, if the donor is not on Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): This list for Elsevier, this, again, this is for Elsev
ier, but also you can find it on other publishers. This is give you a great tool to exclude those predatory publishers Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Join us there are other website that actually list. I remember actually one of my flight booking about over 10,000 of those journals. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Journal, they are. There's a website actually does that. Let me pull it out for you. And I'm sure most of you probably know it. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): But if that if you're not familiar with that. T
hat's another site where you can see the list of those vanity publishing, but then Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): When you dig into this website on the journal finder. You want to look at the website of the journal. I give you this life and I close with not Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Look at their website that of the journal. If you're not will have a website if to give you all the information on it. The mission that as a policy and so forth. But look at who are the editors, the information of Sawah, Abdu
l (ELS-HBE): Reviewers the manager and look what they've been publishing sometimes actually these predatory publishers. They have names of famous people Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Even the you didn't see you think they are on that board. But these people have no clue. They are actually their name is showing up on this website. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): So there's really, you got to put like a puzzle. You got to put it together, but a bit better than all of that is if you Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Look
at the, the famous publisher or known publisher, including academic Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Like you know which one I Oxford, the press, for example, from different institutions nurses should not have a problem with Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): Instead of going backwards. If whenever reverse engineering. Look at the journal itself and go to their website and start picking up those pieces in the puzzle. It's not putting it together. Don't be fooled by Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): The famous names on them.
They could be actually false names or it could be just those journals, put the name of people who are known or a great authors. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): That they have no idea. Their names is on their website and I don't give you I didn't give you all the information that you want it, but I hope I give you something to start with. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): But that being said, I'm going to stop the recording. Sawah, Abdul (ELS-HBE): And I'll be happy to share this information with you. Sawah, Abdul
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