Week 9: Short Review of DBMS- Scopus

Short review on Data Base Management System in UTM : Scopus

a.    Features of the system

Features and functionality designed to support and improve researchers’ workflow, including:

• A simple and intuitive interface.
• Linking to full-text articles and other library resources.
• Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-index.
• Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.
• Affiliation Identifier to automatically identify and match an organization with all its research output.
• Journal Analyzer provides a quick insight into journal performance.
• Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to stay up-to-date.
• Document Download Manager to easily download and organize multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
• Interoperability with SciVerse ScienceDirect, Reaxis and ProQuest’s CSA Illumina.
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX.

b.    How system can help UTM to effectively manage the date and information of staff or students?

Using Scopus as a researcher you can:

• Find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received.
• Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.
• Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
• Use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest.
• Uncover important and relevant articles that you may otherwise miss.
• Check out the work and citations of other authors.
• Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. You can do this within or across disciplines you are interested in.

Using Scopus as an editor you can:

• Find and evaluate referees and authors for review papers and thematic issues.
• Identify and contact potential editorial board members.
• Monitor journal trends, for example by comparing the current aims and scope of a journal with citation patterns to see if a shift has occurred.
• Review the performance and coverage of new journals quickly, and at your desktop without waiting for them to be indexed in other databases. New journals are covered and citation links created to and from them on a regular basis.

Using Scopus as a librarian you can:

• Offer an easy-to-use, reliable abstract and citation database to your users.
• Link your users quickly and accurately to the full-text articles you've invested in.
• Increase the visibility of and access to other library resources.
• Ensure your users search peer-reviewed, indexed content.
• Analyze highly-cited articles to inform your collection management decisions.

c.    Disadvantages of the system

1.    Overlap issue

·         Meho & Yang (2007) conducted a large-scale comparison between Web of Science, Scopus (Elsevier’s alternative to Thomson ISI’s Web of Science) and Google Scholar covering citations of over 1,000 scholarly works of all 15 faculty members of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington between 1996 and 2005.

·         The overlap between Web of Science and Scopus was 58.2%.

·         The overlap between Google Scholar and the union of Web of Science and Scopus was only 30.8%.

·         Google Scholar produced more than twice as many citations as Web of Science and nearly twice as many citations as Scopus.

2.    Unique citations

·         Meho & Yang (2007) conclude that Google Scholar can help identify a significant number of unique citations. These unique citations might not significantly alter one’s citation ranking in comparison to other academics in the same field and might not all be of the same quality as those found in the Web of Science or Scopus.

Reference :

http://www.info.sciverse.com/Home

http://www.harzing.com/pop_gs.htm