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Articles by Wim Meester
20 years of Scopus: How research oversight is evolving to confront new challenges
As we celebrate our 20th anniversary this year, we have been reflecting on the evolution of Scopus and the profound changes to the research landscape during this time. With 99 million documents from over 7,000 publishers worldwide, more than 1.8 billion citations and 17 million author profiles, Scopus has been at the forefront of academic discovery and the advancement of knowledge for two decades now.
The guardians of Scopus
Editor's note: The research referred to here on alleged predatory journals being indexed in Scopus was retracted on September 6, 2021. Whether you do research or use research to make critical decisions, you need access to the highest quality content. That’s why we make it a priority to maintain the integrity of Scopus through expert curation and continual monitoring.
CiteScore metrics updated with 2017 annual values
The latest assessment of thousands of scholarly serial publications is now available with the release of the 2017 CiteScore metrics.CiteScore provides a set of simple, reproducible journal metrics that cover all journals in Scopus.
Plum Analytics metrics are now available to more researchers
PlumX Metrics from Plum Analytics are now integrated into several Elsevier research products and our journal and society partner sites.Scopus, Pure, Elsevier.com and Elsevier Journal Branded Solutions now benefit from PlumX Metrics, with ScienceDirect to follow.“This exciting development means we are significantly expanding access to our metrics to more researchers and more institutions,” said Andrea Michalek, Managing Director of Plum Analytics.
CiteScore highlights top-cited journals neglected by other metrics
For more than 200 top-quality academic journals, CiteScore is the only metric they currently have to show their impact and guide their exceptional work.Metrics are an important tool to determine editorial choices when editing research journals and managing their role in their respective fields.Analysis by Elsevier has identified 216 journals from 70 publishers to be in the top 10 percent of the most-cited journals in their subject category with no critical journal metric other than CiteScore.
CiteScore–Flawed But Still A Game Changer | The Scholarly Kitchen on WordPress.com
Last Thursday, Elsevier announced CiteScore metrics, a free citation reporting service for the academic community. The primary metric promoted by this service is also aptly named CiteScore and is similar, in many ways, to the Impact Factor. Both CiteScore and the Impact Factor are journal-level indicators built around a ratio of citations to documents. The specifics in how each indicator is constructed makes them different enough such that they should not be considered substitutes.
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