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New Researcher Support Tools in Scopus

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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

  1. To get started, click on Researcher Discovery, found on the Scopus main page menu bar
  2. Enter the keywords to quickly find researchers in a particular field
  3. Choose the criteria you want to use to sort your search results
  4. Quickly refine results based publication date, country, or even organization
  5. Preview Profile includes a synopsis of the authors information (including most recent affiliation and e-mail address, years of experience, and research topics)
  6. 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.

Joan Massague Scopus Author Profile    Joan Massague expanded Author Position metrics

Evidence Based Point of Care/Clinical Decision Support Resources

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The MSK Library has subscriptions to a number of resources that are often referred to as evidence based point of care tools or clinical decision support resources. A hallmark of these tools is that they often include succinct clinical information summaries accompanied by some strength of evidence rating or quality assessment and/or may offer links to evidence-based recommendations and guidelines. Some tools give users the opportunity to earn CME points and credits for spending time using the resource, while others provide separate content prepared specifically for clinicians while also offering versions intended for patients.

Included in the library’s Databases A-Z list, for example, are:
(click on name to access the resource) 

Note: To use these resources via the MSK Library’s subscription, you are not required to register for your own personal account – you can just use MSK’s institutional OpenAthens sign-on to gain access.

However, if you are interested in earning CME points and credits (in the tools that offer this option), you will need to register for a personal account after gaining access to the tool via MSK’s subscription.

Some tools also have a mobile app that you can download after you register for a personal account. If you experience any download issues or are prompted for MSK-specific subscription information that you do not have, please reach out to the MSK Library using our Ask Us form to obtain any needed subscription details from the library’s Content Team.

New eBook: Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology

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The sixth edition of the Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology is now available via the medical library. This is a comprehensive reference book for the busy clinician to use in their daily patient encounters and for board review. 

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology provides practical guidance on evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with cancer. It covers a range of solid-tumor, blood, and other cancers, as well as immunotherapeutic drugs, infection management, nutrition, and palliative care. The sixth edition contains new and revised content on immunotherapy, precision medicine, genetics, individual cancer therapies, and more.