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To keep track of what's happening in your research world, turn to Scopus. Across all research fields — science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities — Scopus delivers the broadest overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information. Content on Scopus comes from over 5,000 publishers and must be reviewed and selected by an independent Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB) to be, and continue to be, indexed on Scopus.

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High-quality Data

Updated daily, content indexed on Scopus delivers all metadata as provided by publishers, including: author(s), affiliation(s), document title, year, electronic identification (EID), source title, volume/issue/pages, citation count(s), source, document type and digital object identifier (DOI) and more. This rich metadata not only enables more precise search and retrieval of scientific information, but can also be integrated into other websites and platforms through our API program. Both the data quality and comprehensive coverage Scopus provides, continue to make Scopus the selected database provider for research assessment and evaluation purposes by leading ranking organizations, including Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Rankings, MacLean’s, and US News and World Report.

Content types included on Scopus are either serial publications that have an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) such as journals, book series and some conference series, or non-serial publications that have an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) like one-off book publications or one-off conferences. To check if a title is on Scopus, visit the freely available Source Title page, or consult the titles lists below.

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Journals: The bulk of the content on Scopus are peer-reviewed journals which are selected according to our content coverage policy. Any serial publication with an ISSN, excluding trade journals, book series, certain proceedings, newsletters, secondary sources or patent publications, can be suggested for review and covered on Scopus. Over 3,600 peer-reviewed titles are full open access titles (according to DOAJ and/or ROAD).

Trade journals: Serial publications covering and intended to reach a specific industry, trade or type of business. These publications usually are a magazine type of periodical with articles on topical subjects, news items and advertisements that appeal to those in the field. Trade journals are seldom refereed and do not always have an editorial board. Abstracts are usually short or nonexistent and few or no references are given. Usually an ISSN is available. Trade journals are included in Scopus because users and librarians consider selected articles to be scientifically relevant. Only articles or reviews of scientific relevance are included in Scopus.

Book series: A serial publication that has an overall series title, an ISSN, and in which every volume and/or issue in the series is also a book with an ISBN. Usually, but not always, each book has a book title separate from the series title and a different editor or editors. Typically, each book is a monographic publication. Book series are usually published irregularly.

Books (non-serial titles): A non-serial source is a publication with an ISBN and is usually a monograph or composed work. Since August 2013, book coverage has expanded. Along with the existing book series, book content now includes monographs, edited volumes, major reference works and graduate level textbooks. Since 2015, over 150,000 titles have been added to significantly increasing the breadth and depth of coverage for book-oriented disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Books are indexed on both a book and a chapter level. Book selection policy is publisher-based, meaning publishers are reviewed based on the relevancy and quality of their complete books list. Once a publisher is accepted, all books from that publisher that fit the scope of the project are indexed in Scopus.

Conference material: Conference material enters Scopus in two different ways: (1) as a special issue of a regular journal, (2) as a dedicated conference proceeding. Proceedings can be published as serial or non-serial, and may contain either the full articles of the papers presented or only the abstracts. The source title usually includes words like proceeding(s), meeting(s), conference(s), symposium/symposia, seminar(s) or workshop(s) (or their synonyms in other languages), although some journals also include proceeding(s) in the title. Scopus covers conferences that publish full-text papers, i.e., document type conference papers

Historical Depth

Over the past 3 years, Scopus has added over 195 million more cited references dating back to 1970, to complement the database's existing records that date back 1788 and further increase the depth of content. More cited references mean:

more extensive bibliometric and historic trend analysis
more complete author profiles
improved h-index measures for authors who began publishing prior to 1996

Additionally, over 4.5 million articles have been reprocessed to index more cited references on Scopus, adding ~7.5 million pre-1996 article abstracts for users to discover. With over 1.4 billion cited references now on Scopus, each paper indexed has, on average, 10-15% more citations than our nearest competitor.

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Expert Curation

Content included on Scopus is carefully curated and ultimately selected by the independent Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB), an international group of scientists, researchers and librarians who represent the major scientific disciplines. Year round, the board members are responsible for reviewing all new titles that are suggested to Scopus, in addition to reviewing and ensuring the quality of existing content is maintained.