Scopus Indexed journals
Finding scientific research is just as critical as its quality. Scopus makes finding research easy while enabling researchers to claim their work, ensuring proper accreditation and supporting career development. It is crucial for any researcher to know their research can be easily discovered, and that they can accurately capture references and citations to measure impact. Scopus provides both of these features.
It has over 42,000 titles from more than 10,000 international publishers, and nearly 35,000 of these publications are peer-reviewed. Scopus is one of the largest and most reputable databases for abstracts and citations for academic literature. Scientific, technical, medical, social, and humanities fields are included in Scopus (books, journals, conference papers, etc.).
You’ll be able to reach a broader audience with Scopus
Authors who validate their author profiles gain valuable insight into their research’s impact, as well as building a reliable portfolio in support of their career goals. With Scopus, once your profile is validated, your profile is automatically populated, saving you time and bolstering your credentials. Scopus is the only database to produce author profiles that combine automated and manually-curated data. With this information, Scopus can provide over 17M profiles that can be viewed, searched, and analysed as you would an article, in a simple and efficient way.
Scopus uses a rigorous, independent and transparent selection process to determine which journals are indexed on its platform. It has a board of experts that oversees the selection process; it uses re-evaluation mechanisms to identify outliers and underperforming journals; In this way, we make sure that only the most trustworthy content and articles are available in Scopus.
Why Scopus is important
Scopus, founded by Elsevier in 2004, has grown rapidly, becoming the largest index and citation database in the world. Scopus lists research in an array of interdisciplinary topics, yet categorizes the content into four categories: health sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences. Over a quarter of a billion articles and chapters are available from about 24,000 peer-reviewed journals and 194,000 books. Despite being an index with such a large number of articles, Scopus ensures that every publication undergoes a rigorous review process during which it is evaluated for quality and contribution to the scientific community.
Due to Scopus’s position as the largest online index, many universities are beginning to require their professors to publish in Scopus-indexed journals as a way to promote their research and findings as an institution and to encourage students and research funding. Historically, for most academics seeking tenure at their university, publishing research has been a requirement, but in recent years, universities have tended to only recognize research published in highly indexed and abstracted journals. Since indices give specific metrics to measure a journal’s success and the impact of citations by authors, these requirements are arising. In addition to gaining recognition from the academic community, high ratings help authors and their affiliated universities attract more research funding, which in turn boosts their careers and programs.
Evaluation Process
Scopus maintains a consistent system which allows them to review indexed journals on a regular basis to ensure they comply with Scopus policies. Scopus evaluates journals on six criteria as part of its re-evaluation procedure;
Self-citation rate: Compared to peer journals in its field, journal has a self-citation rate less than two times as high.
Total citation rate: Whether the journal has been cited half as much as peer-reviewed journals in the field.
Cite Score: Whether the journal has a Cite Score that is more than half that of peer journals in its field.
Number of articles: More than half as many papers were published in the journal as in the average publication in its discipline.
Number of full-text: clicks on the Scopus site: On the Scopus site, the full text of a journal is utilised more than half as much as other journals in its topic area.
Abstract usage on Scopus.com: On the Scopus site, abstracts are used more than half as much as peer-reviewed articles.
Why Scopus is the gold standard
The H Index, SJR (SCIMAGO Journal Rank), CiteScore, and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) are all valuable measures for authors, editors, and publishers to analyse the success and reach of their work in comparison to other publications in their topic area.
Scopus is used by over 4,500 universities and 150+ top research organisations across the world for research assessment and evaluation.
Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of research output worldwide in the domains of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as sophisticated tools for tracking, analysing, and visualising research.
By choosing Scopus, you ensure that vital research from around the world doesn’t go unnoticed as study becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary, and collaborative. Scopus provide a comprehensive and dependable source of research performance data and analytics for your research findings. Scopus data, a transparent framework, and the reliability of the SciVal performance measures are the reasons why ranking organizations prefer Elsevier to back their evaluations and reports.
The world of scholarly literature is plagued by published malpractice. Journals and books are rarely immune to plagiarism in all fields and in all jurisdictions. The journals even forged the signature and the letterhead of the head of Scopus Content! Although a journal may have the Scopus logo on their website, it does not necessarily mean that they’re indexed in Scopus.
We strongly suggest that authors, before submitting their work to a journal or conference, consider the following before finding out if their published article will be included in Scopus.
Check the title list: You can search for sources on Scopus.com to find a title list, and evaluate a journal with Cite Scores and other metrics.
Search in Scopus: You can check if any content from the journal or conference is available through the Scopus search engine by looking for the title in the Scopus database.
Ask! In case of uncertainty, the Scopus Helpdesk can let you know whether if that title is already indexed (or will be indexed in the near future).
Some Common Indicators of Fake Journals
Fake journals can easily be identified by using the following common indicators:
No address: Journals sometimes do not offer contact information except an email address on their website.
No proper review information: Most of these journals do not disclose their review process or editorial board details associated with their publications.
Publication: Publishing in these journals promises rapid publication.
Topics: Publications of this kind simply cover an array of unrelated fields.
Age of the website: It is possible to determine the age of a journal’s website by using a number of tools. The fake journals in online tend to claim a higher impact factor than their actual age.
Peer review process: There are no details of the peer-review process or basic guidelines for submission on the website.
Fees: Predatory journals often charge extremely high processing fees.
How To Identify Fake Journal?
The following steps will help you identify a fake journal;
Publisher: Do you know who publishes the journals? That would be the first step. It could be a publishing company, a professional association, a scholarship organization, or a university. Authentic publishers will never publish fake journals.
Verify Editor or Reviewer: Verification of the editor-in-chief, senior editor, and reviewers of the journals is the best method to identify a fraudulent publication. Publications with a good reputation always list the members of their editorial boards. It is easy to track down each member of the editorial board’s home university. When you cannot track who the editorial members are, you should suspect that the journal is fraudulent.
Number of Volumes Published: There should be a substantial number of publications with high impact research article issues in order for the journal to be legitimate.
Review Process: Authors who submit their work to fake journals may get a fast review process and a publication. Journals that undergo quick review are generally either fakes or highly paid. It is common for them to publish without revision. This will lead to the entire journal being withdrawn from indexing in the future. It is imperative that good journals have an effective review process. There is a likelihood that it will take between two and four months to complete the review process. Journals with a higher impact factor may require even more time for review and publication.
Verify Indexing: Lastly, make sure the journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, or SCIMAGO. Almost all of these databases index reputable and mainstream journals.
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Scopus indexed Journals are predominantly classified into various quartiles based on the various Scientometrics. “A quartile is a category of scientific journals that represent the citation level identified by scientometric indicators. So, the publications range from the most referenced to the least by quartile.”’
The journal’s quartiles assist us in determining the journal’s reliability and quality. It’s based on the SCIMAGO Journal Ranking (SJR).
In addition, SCIMAGO Journal Ranking (SJR) is an indicator that is measured by the impact from the number of citations for the articles published in the preceding two years per total number of articles published in years.
Quartiles Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 denotes the categorization of journals from highest to lowest as given below.
- Q1 99-75th percentiles;
- Q2 74-50th percentiles;
- Q3 49-25th percentiles;
- Q4 24-0 percentiles
A high quartile in Scopus will essentially mean that a given journal sets research trends and its authors are experts in their respective fields.
Non availability of a Scopus Journal in the SCIMAGO Page will mean that the journal has been recently approved in Scopus database. It will take minimum three years for Journal to appear in SCIMAGO Page.
