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Scopus

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Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Academic degree, Bibliography, CAS Registry Number, Chemical Abstracts Service, Citation index, CiteScore, Digital object identifier, Elsevier, Grant (money), H-index, Heliyon, Impact factor, JAMA, Journal ranking, Journalology, LexisNexis, List of academic databases and search engines, Open access, ORCID, OurResearch, Peer review, Reference, RIS (file format), Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, SCImago Journal Rank, SQL, The Guardian, The Lens, Web of Science.

  2. 2004 introductions
  3. Citation indices
  4. Elsevier
  5. Publications established in 2004

Academic degree

An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.

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Bibliography

Bibliography (from and), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliography).

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CAS Registry Number

A CAS Registry Number (also referred to as CAS RN or informally CAS Number) is a unique identification number, assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the US to every chemical substance described in the open scientific literature, in order to index the substance in the CAS Registry.

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Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society. Scopus and Chemical Abstracts Service are bibliographic databases and indexes.

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Citation index

A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. Scopus and citation index are citation indices.

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CiteScore

CiteScore (CS) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.

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Digital object identifier

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Grant (money)

A grant is a financial award given by a government entity, foundation, corporation, or other organization to an individual or organization for a specific purpose.

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H-index

The h-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar.

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Heliyon

Heliyon is a monthly peer-reviewed mega journal covering research in all areas of science, the social sciences and humanities, and the arts.

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Impact factor

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.

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JAMA

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.

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Journal ranking

Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal's impact and quality.

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Journalology

Journalology (also known as publication science) is the scholarly study of all aspects of the academic publishing process.

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis is an American data analytics company headquartered in New York, New York. Scopus and LexisNexis are bibliographic databases and indexes.

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List of academic databases and search engines

This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Scopus and list of academic databases and search engines are bibliographic databases and indexes.

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Open access

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.

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ORCID

The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information). Scopus and ORCID are library cataloging and classification.

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OurResearch

OurResearch, formerly known as ImpactStory, is a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes tools and services for libraries, institutions and researchers.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers).

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Reference

A reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

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RIS (file format)

RIS is a standardized tag format developed by Research Information Systems, Incorporated (the format name refers to the company) to enable citation programs to exchange data.

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Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

The science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators is a multidimensional ranking of the world's scientists produced since 2015 by a team of researchers led by John P. A. Ioannidis at Stanford.

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SCImago Journal Rank

The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the prestige of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the prestige of the journals where the citations come from. Scopus and SCImago Journal Rank are citation indices.

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SQL

Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced S-Q-L; historically "sequel") is a domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Lens

The Lens, formerly called Patent Lens, is a free searcheable online patent and scholarly literature database, provided by Cambia, an Australia-based non-profit organization.

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Web of Science

The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines. Scopus and Web of Science are bibliographic databases and indexes.

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See also

2004 introductions

Citation indices

Elsevier

Publications established in 2004

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus

Also known as Scopus (identifier).