Publication in Scopus is an indicator of the authority of a scientist that is highly valued both in Poland and in the whole world. High-quality and ranked publications in Scopus contribute to the accomplishment of the main scientific purposes of researchers. The “Scientific Publications” Company offers a detailed analysis of the Scopus database, how to work with it and to what you should pay attention to when planning and publishing a work.
What is “Scopus” and “Scopus article”?
Scopus is one of the most ranked databases that index thousands of scientific publications from a wide range of subject areas. The platform was founded relatively recently, in 2004 by the Elsevier Company, but it has already gained high popularity around the world.
The database indexes the most ranked publications from over 27 knowledge fields, covering hundreds of scientific disciplines.
“Scopus article” means that a researcher’s scientific publication has been published in a journal that is indexed in Scopus.
How does Scopus work?
In order to understand the specifics of this database and the publications that are placed there, some nuances of the platform’s work should be known:
- In order to obtain indexing in Scopus, each scientific publication should pass a basic indicators verification regarding the regularity of each issue, content availability, reputation, content and journal policy. Only after that the journal can claim to be included in Scopus.
- The database specialists calculate unique scientometric indicators for each indexed journal, including: SNIP, SJR, CireScore, quartile, percentile and others.
- A number of metrics are also calculated for each author’s profile, for example, citations and h-index.
- Every month, verifications are carried out within the Scopus database, based on the results of which indexing of the journal can be stopped. There are four main reasons for the publications exclusion: Metrics and benchmarks is non-compliance with the scientometric indicators, Publication concerns is a violation of the publication ethics, Radar is non-compliance in accordance with the automatic verification system, Continuous curation is non-compliance in accordance with the CSAB verification results.
This is exactly the reason why the publications that are indexed in Scopus monitor the content quality that is published in each issue. Therefore, let’s consider the main requirements for articles published in Scopus journals.
Scopus article: basic requirements overview
Each material submitted for publication undergoes a multistage verification system at the level of a scientific publication.
The main points, the non-compliance of which leads to that the article will be rejected even before the review:
- The work uniqueness, the plagiarism absence, the minimum percentage of self-plagiarism and the citation execution correctness. Thus, the researcher confirms that the work was written by him without the violation of the intellectual property rights of other scientists.
- Novelty and globality. A scientific article should have a global impact on the world science, because Scopus journals are mainly international publications for which regional issues are of less importance. At the same time, the material should cover facts that were not known before.
- Compliance to the scientific style.
- The work structure quality and compliance with the scientific publication requirements. The general rule for a Scopus article structuring is the IMRAD execution, the availability of clearly formulated and correctly filled metadata. You should familiarize yourself with all the requirements in detail on the publication website, where the publication will be published.
- High level of academic translation performance with consideration of special professional terminology. Non-compliance with this criterion will contribute to that the research opinion will remain undisclosed and incomprehensible to the scientific journal representative.
- Compliance with the publication ethics. The best known violations of the publication ethics are the simultaneous submission of the work to several scientific journals, “salami slicing” is the dividing of one article into several articles, conflict of interests, presentation of incorrect or made up data, etc. The detection of such facts can lead not only to the publication refection, but also to reputational loss of the researcher.
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