Scopus is a daily updated database of peer-reviewed abstracts-indexed academic papers from all disciplines (more comprehensively included in the fields of medicine, social sciences and Life Sciences). The bibliographic index covers journal articles, conference papers, books, and patents. Citations in 2016 date back to 1970.
Content features:
1. More than 60 million records (35 million since 1996; 22 million from 1823-1995)
2. More than 22,000 journals published by more than 5,000 publishers worldwide, including 4,200 gold open access journals
3. 100% coverage of Medline journals
4. Journals in 40 languages from 105 countries, including nearly 600 Chinese peer-reviewed core journals
5. Over 7.2 million conference papers
6. 120,000+ Books (2003 to present)
7. Over 500 sets of books
8. Over 27 million patents (five major international patent repositories: WIPO, UK Intellectual Property Office, US Patent Office, European Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office)
Main functions:
1. Literature search
2. Patent search
3. Institutional library search. Support institutional search and analysis functions (including universities, government agencies, research institutes, and enterprise R&D, etc., each independent organization is assigned an organization code Affiliation ID in Scopus); For each institution, the literature information (total number of publications, total number of citations), main authors, proportion of publications in each field, journal sources, patent information and so on were counted
4. Author library search. Support for Author retrieval and analysis (covering more than 30 million scholars worldwide, each Author is assigned an Author code Author ID in Scopus); For each author, the author's literature information (total number of publications and total cited times), H-index, citation overview (self-citation or co-author citation can be selected), and author's personal literature output analysis chart (one-click generation) are counted.
Note: this database is an abstract index library, which does not provide the full text of papers, but only links to papers. 360 Link to Full Text is a full-text Link service provided by Qiushi Academic Search. Clicking this Link will help you locate the purchased resources of Zhejiang University Library. For unsubscribed resources, you will be prompted if document delivery is required.