43. Scopus has been selected by various Ranking Systems worldwide such as
THE, QS, US-News (Arab Rankings) and Financial Times
All content vigorously vetted by an independent, 15-person, international
board of experts called the Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB)
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals including 3,715 full open access journals
Titles from 105 different countries in all geographical regions,
40 local languages covered
From more than 5,000 international publishers
Articles-in-Press from over 3,750 journals
Egyptian Knowledge Bank
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JOURNALS CONFERENCES BOOKS PATENTS
Physical
Sciences
7,443
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals
360 trade publications
7.3M conference
papers from 90,000
worldwide events
531 book series 27M patents
from 5 major
patent offices
Health
Sciences
6,795
Full metadata, abstracts and
cited references (references
back to 1970 by 2016)
Over 3,700 full open access
journals
Going back to 1823
Funding data from
acknowledgements
More than 120,000
books with 15k-20k
new books added
per year;
Focus on Social
Sciences and A&H
UK
US
Japan
World
EU
Social
Sciences
8,066
Coverage recently
expanded in mainly
Engineering and
Computer Sciences
Life
Sciences
4,492
Scopus currently has over 61 million core records:
Over 38 million records back to 1996 of which 84% include references
Over 22 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823 (abstracts included
where available; references will be included on records back to 1970 by the end of
2016)
Approximately 3 million new records are added each year (5,500/day)
Connectivity with ORCID and Independent journal metrics:
SNIP: The Source-Normalized Impact per Paper
SJR: The SCImago Journal Rank
What content does Scopus include?
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March 2017.
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competition'" Times Higher Education: World University Rankings. Retrieved 30
March 2017.
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Publishers". Information Today, Inc. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
Jump up^ "Egypt government seeking to fix 'damage' to education system". Times Higher
Education: World University Rankings. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
Jump up^"NEWS@AUC | Faculty: Reform Requires Change in the Mindset of Educators,
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