Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies
Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies
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DOI：
10.1162/qss_a_00019
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发表时间：
2020-12-01
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
Karimi, Reza
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作者：
Baas, Jeroen;Schotten, Michiel;Karimi, Reza
SCOPUS是最大的精选摘要和引文数据库之一，广泛覆盖全球和地区的科学期刊、会议记录和书籍，同时确保通过独立的内容选择和咨询委员会进行严格的内容选择和重新评估，只对最高质量的数据进行索引。此外，广泛的质量保证流程持续监控和改进Scope中的所有数据元素。除了丰富的科学论文元数据记录，Scope还提供了全面的作者和机构概况，这些概况是通过先进的分析算法和手动管理获得的，确保了高精度和查全率。Scope的可信度使其成为研究评估、研究前景研究、科学政策评估和大学排名中大规模分析的文献计量学数据来源。学术研究界通过应用程序编程接口等方式，为选定的研究免费提供Scopus数据，这导致许多出版物使用Scope数据来调查研究人员流动性、网络可视化和空间文献计量学等主题。2019年6月，国际研究中心成立，成立了一个由文献计量学家组成的顾问委员会，旨在与科学计量学研究界合作，并提供一个虚拟实验室，研究人员将能够在其中利用Scope us数据。
Scopus is among the largest curated abstract and citation databases, with a wide global and regional coverage of scientific journals, conference proceedings, and books, while ensuring only the highest quality data are indexed through rigorous content selection and re-evaluation by an independent Content Selection and Advisory Board. Additionally, extensive quality assurance processes continuously monitor and improve all data elements in Scopus. Besides enriched metadata records of scientific articles, Scopus offers comprehensive author and institution profiles, obtained from advanced profiling algorithms and manual curation, ensuring high precision and recall. The trustworthiness of Scopus has led to its use as bibliometric data source for large-scale analyses in research assessments, research landscape studies, science policy evaluations, and university rankings. Scopus data have been offered for free for selected studies by the academic research community, such as through application programming interfaces, which have led to many publications employing Scopus data to investigate topics such as researcher mobility, network visualizations, and spatial bibliometrics. In June 2019, the International Center for the Study of Research was launched, with an advisory board consisting of bibliometricians, aiming to work with the scientometric research community and offering a virtual laboratory where researchers will be able to utilize Scopus data.