Scopus has updated their website and with it has added several new tools and resources aimed to provide additional support for researchers and authors.
Researcher Discovery
Scopus introduced it’s new Researcher Discovery tool to help researchers find and connect with leading researchers in their discipline as well as find collaborators for projects, all with simple keyword searching.
How to Use Researcher Discovery
- To get started, click on Researcher Discovery, found on the Scopus main page menu bar
- Enter the keywords to quickly find researchers in a particular field
- Choose the criteria you want to use to sort your search results
- Quickly refine results based publication date, country, or even organization
- Preview Profile includes a synopsis of the authors information (including most recent affiliation and e-mail address, years of experience, and research topics)
- Clicking on Full Profile allows you to explore an author’s full Scopus profile including metrics
Make Connections in Scopus!
Researcher Discovery is a vital tool for early and mid-career researchers that can increase their visibility, and support collaboration, network building, and career development; or for those researchers embarking into a new or emerging field to identify, connect, and build collaboration among researchers.
For more information, please see Scopus’s Researcher Discovery FAQ page.
Author Position Metric
Scopus just announced a new metric available within their Author Profile pages. This new Author Position metric is designed to help researchers better track and understand their research performance, including providing a comprehensive overview of their performance over time that can be used for promotion, tenure, and grant applications.
What is Author Position and how does it work?
Most research includes a number of contributing authors, and using traditional author metrics all co-authors are weighed equally when accounting for citation impact. This often over-inflates the contributions of some authors and minimizes the contributions of other authors.
With the new Author Position metric, Scopus now captures the following authorship positions, including:
- First author: The first author mentioned in the publication
- Last author: The last author mentioned in the publication
- Corresponding author: An author is marked as the corresponding author in the publication (since June 2020, all new documents in Scopus can contain multiple corresponding authors, prior published and indexed documents can only have one corresponding author)
- Co-author: Co-authors are any author that is not a first, last or corresponding author
- Single author: An author is the only author of a publication
How to Find Author Position Metrics
From the Author Profile page, find the Author Position preview in the lower right column. From there, select View Author Position Details to expand details on authorship position metrics.
