1. Scopus Citation TrackerCitation Analysis

2. What is Scopus? • Largest citation and abstract database of research literature: • 15,000+ journals with abstracts back to the mid-sixties • 4,000+ publishers covered • 230 million+ references from the last ten years • 200 million+ Web pages • The only database to offer simultaneous and comprehensive Web search (Scirus.com) • Start broad and refine: unique tools to summarize, sort and narrow results sets • Only one click away from the full-text • Easiest way to find relevant results fast

3. Best Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Information Product What is Scopus? 2005 Winner of the International Information Industry Award

4. Why the Scopus Citation Tracker? • Extensive research with hundreds of users and librarians showed a clear need for easily spotting and tracking citation patterns, visually. • Scientists told us that they wanted to move away from pre-defined metrics and analyze article-level data in order to more easily: • identify trends in a particular subject field • determine the influence of specific research groups • evaluate individual authors

5. What is the Scopus Citation Tracker? • A visual overview of citation behavior across any set of chosen articles, over different time periods • The Scopus Citation Tracker supports the three key needs identified during Scopus research: • Finding the most highly-cited author in a field and evaluating his/her relevance • Tracking hot topics in a particular subject area • Identifying and evaluating research trends visually, and fast • User chooses which articles to include and how many years to include • Data is caluculated real-time

6. Some facts on the Citation Tracker • Every time a Citation Tracker overview table is requested, 270 million references are scanned and sorted in real-time. • 90% of the overview tables are calculated and displayed in less than two seconds. • The Citation Tracker utilizes the processing power of 10 servers and takes up approximately 700 gigabytes of storage. • Articles from any of the 15,000+ Scopus journals can be selected for analysis in the Citation Tracker.

8. Citation Tracker forTrends Identification

9. Tefko Saracevic is a member of the Library and Information Science faculty at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA I used it to identify time trends for different topics. As within many other research areas, specific topics tend to grow and decline like an epidemic. I traced these in the tracker’s overview table of citation patterns, to see their activity

10. I also identified key contributions and authors and traced what I call their ‘scholarly genealogy’. What authors and works are connected? What are the major connections? I found their ‘scholarly children’, ‘scholarly grandchildren’ and even some distant and surprising relatives - Tefko Saracevic

11. Tracking Research trends and see whats hot

12. Tracking Research trends and see what’s hot

13. Evaluate Instantly What is Important Predict What may become important

15. Track a Researcher’s work • Professor Shaw-Tao Lin (Providence University)

16. Track a Researcher’s work

17. Track a researcher’s work

18. Track a researcher’s work

19. Track a researcher’s work

20. Discover and explore new topics

21. Discover and explore new topics • Half virus, half beast – it's a 20-sided freak • It's a life form so bizarre it took more than a decade just to work out what a Mimivirus is. • Two years ago, French researchers discover a giant virus that seemed to break all the rules. 25 March 2006 Garry Hamilton Magazine issue 2544

22. Discover and explore new topics

23. Discover and explore new topics

24. Discover and explore new topics We can continue to Explore and discover more about this new topic…….

25. Case Study • Confession of a user

26. Find out more about the Citation Tracker • http://info.scopus.com/etc/citationtracker/ • 羅耀煒 Product Sales Manager Tel: +65-63490209 Email: yw.loh@elsevier.com