The primary feature in last Sunday’s Scopus release is the new “Analyze results“ tool previewed in my last post.  This builds directly on the “Export refine” functionality launched last May.  ”Export refine” enabled much of the same analysis, but required a user to manipulate raw data in a CSV file.  By adding this directly into Scopus, “Analyze results” expands the reach of this functionality to less advanced users.

“Analyze results” is also a descendant of the Documents section of the Author Evaluator launched in August 2010.  Essentially “Analyze results” expands the ability of the Author Evaluator from visualizing information about a single author’s publications to visualizing aggregate publication information on any arbitrary set of results.  Thus, the power of “Analyze results” is proportionate to the care and complexity of the query being examined.

Worth noting is that, “Analyze results” is different from the existing “View Citation Overview” function in that it evaluates quantity rather than quality.  Another difference is that “Analyze results” examines the whole set of results, while “View Citation Overview” looks only at a selected subset of results.  However, there are links within “Analyze Results” to the appropriate quality analysis tools in Scopus including the Journal Analyzer and Author Evaluator.

I am most excited about the “Source Title” tab of “Analyze Results” because it takes analysis one step deeper than a simple “Export refine”.  Furthermore, I believe the link to “Compare Source Titles in Journal Analyzer” is the true killer feature of  ”Analyze Results” as it will enable a user to compare journals on both subject matter and quality.  An example of this is described in both the training desk video and my previous post.

Please feel free to share feedback or comments on “Analyze results” or other enhancements from this release.

• EContent article I was interviewed for: One Book, Many Covers: Meeting the Challenges of Multiplatform Publishing http://t.co/AYKjm29 #li #
• 1Night.me: Renting (text)books a day at a time. #launch http://t.co/2TgThH0 via @1nightMe #
• BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Scopus citation links, topic collection.. http://bit.ly/j1Jd0x #
• Scopus Alerts for BlackBerry now available – http://bit.ly/kCqoRU (for subscribers) alongside existing iPhone and Android versions. #

• Liked “Another win 4 #openscience Elsevier launches new SciVerse app store w/ Mendeley data APIs http://bit.ly/dRPmrY" http://ff.im/-unKUl #
• Liked “http://developer.sciverse.com/sdk An eclipse plugin for the SciVerse Applications software development kit” http://ff.im/-u2lkB #
• Liked “browsing the sciverse app gallery http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery – more here than i…” http://ff.im/-tME82 #
• I just learned my colleague sent a response earlier today. We are brainstorming on how to get around this. re: http://ff.im/tAVIf #
• Liked “Rankings: WoS vs Scopus” http://ff.im/-cvWAc #
• Liked “Kein Link? RT @Scopus JAMA article says: Scopus has 22% more citations than WoS” http://ff.im/-8vvlr #

Session abstract:
Do you have data? Have you decided that you want to publish that data in a friendly way? Then this session is for you. Allowing your data to be linked to other data sets is an obvious way to make your data more useful, and to contribute back to the data community that you are a part of, but the mechanics of how you do that is not always so clear cut. This session will discuss just that. With experts from the publishing world, the liked data community, and scientific data services, this is a unique opportunity to get an insight into how to create linked scientific data, and what you can do with it once you have created it.
- http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/programme.php?tab=abstracts#breakout8

Richard Wallis’ slides from the session are available here:

http://www.slideshare.net/rjw/the-linked-data-publishing-threestep

Thanks to Ian Mulvany for organizing the panel:

http://directedgraph.net/2010/08/27/connecting-scientific-data/

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• Data is at the heart of new science ecosystem – DATA – Research Information
  Article by Rafael: “Offering their content through open APIs, publishers and platform providers can present researchers with application building tools based on more comprehensive content. In fact, publishers and platform providers have an opportunity to serve as the host of the new scientific knowledge ecosystem that is evolving.”
  (tags: elsevier, apis, data, science, scholarlycommunication)

• The Indispensable Man of Open Science: A Talk with Cameron Neylon « Significant Science
  Lengthy and detailed interview with Cameron Neylon touching on just about everything related to Open Science.
  (tags: openscience opennotebook cameronneylon interview elsevier)

• Research Trends – Sparking debate
  From article about SNIP – “Across a subject field as broad as scholarly communication, assessing journal impact by citations to a journal in a two-year time frame is obviously going to favor those subjects that cite heavily, and rapidly. Some fields, particularly those in the life sciences, tend to conform to this citation pattern better than others, leading to some widely recognized distortions.”
  (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS)
• Research Trends A question of prestige
  From article: “Prestige measured by quantity of citations is one thing, but when it is based on the quality of those citations, you get a better sense of the real value of research to a community. Research Trends talks to Prof. Félix de Moya about SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which ranks journals based on where their citations originate.”
  (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS)
• Research Trends – New perspectives on journal performance
  From article :Bibliometric indicators are not without their own controversies (1, 2) and recently there has been an explosion of new metrics, accompanying a shift in the mindset of the scientific community towards a multidimensional view of journal evaluation.”
  (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS)

• Elsevier’s Scopus Partners with CWTS and SCImago to Offer Multidimensional Evaluation of Research Journals
  From press release: “Elsevier… announced that its flagship product Scopus has successfully partnered with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the SCImago Research Group, endorsing two complementary journal metrics, SNIP and SJR. The metrics will be freely available online at www.journalmetrics.com, and integrated into Scopus, allowing researchers around the world to analyze journals within the abstract and citation database. The indicators will offer a greater currency and flexibility in journal performance measurement than any single-metric method currently available.”
  (tags: elsevier scopus sjr snip journalmetrics journals scholarlycommunication scholarlypublishing metrics impact impactfactor)
• journalmetrics.com – Reality is more than just a number – SNIP & SJR
  Download SNIP and SJR values for Scopus journals.
  (tags: snip sjr impact factor journal metrics performance Elsevier Scopus science research SciVal journalmetrics)
• SJR & SNIP versus IMPACT FACTOR
  “How do SJR and SNIP compare to the Impact Factor? They offer new perspectives in Journal Evaluation that look at the context in which a journal is performing and normalize for citation behaviour. Find more information at www.journalmetrics.com”
  (tags: snip sjr impact factor journal metrics performance Elsevier Scopus science research SciVal journalmetrics video)
• Introduction SJR & SNIP powered by Scopus
  Video
  (tags: snip sjr impact factor journal metrics performance Elsevier Scopus science research SciVal journalmetrics video)
• Calculation of SNIP & SJR powered by Scopus (video)
  “This short video explains how SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) are calculated. SJR and SNIP are considering in which context in which a Journal is performing looking at differences in research areas with different citation behaviours. “
  (tags: snip sjr impact factor journal metrics performance Elsevier Scopus science research SciVal journalmetrics video)
• Chemistry Seminar – Science 2.0
  Looks like an interesting introductory course to the various concepts of scientific publishing and Science 2.0. (found because it linked to my Identity 2.0 post)
  (tags: science20 scholarlypublishing science identity course)

• Scopus Now Available in Research4Life for Scientists in the Developing World
  From the Press Release: “Amsterdam, 2 December 2009 – Elsevier… today announced that Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources, will be added to Research4Life… the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private partnerships that offer health, agriculture and environmental research for free or at very low cost to developing countries.”
  (tags: elsevier scopus research4life agora hinari oare pressrelease)