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| Producer | Elsevier (Netherlands) |
|---|---|
| History | 10 November 2004 |
| Languages | 40 languages |
| Access | |
| Providers | Elsevier |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Life sciences; social sciences; physical sciences; health sciences |
| Record depth | 41,462 indexed titles (2021) |
| Format coverage | csv, BibText, ASCII, RIS |
| Temporal coverage | 1788–present |
| Geospatial coverage | Worldwide |
| No. of records | 82.4 million |
| Update frequency | daily |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Title list(s) | www |
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] An ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is considered to significantly benefit their users in terms of continuous improvent in coverage, search/analysis capabilities, but not in price. Free database The Lens completes the triad of main universal academic research databases.
Journals in Scopus are reviewed for sufficient quality each year according to four numerical measures: h-Index, CiteScore, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP (source normalized impact per paper). For this reason, the journals listed in Scopus are considered to meet the requirement for peer review quality established by several research grant agencies for their grant recipients and by degree-accreditation boards in a number of countries.[2]
Scopus also allows patent searches from a dedicated patent database, Lexis-Nexis, albeit with limited functionality.[3]
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- ^ [1] Archived 2 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine; [2] Archived 19 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kulkarni, A. V.; Aziz, B.; Shams, I.; Busse, J. W. (2009). "Comparisons of Citations in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for Articles Published in General Medical Journals". JAMA. 302 (10): 1092–6. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1307. PMID 19738094.