Library Guides: Scopus: Metrics

Scopus Guide to Research Metrics
What data, or metrics are available in Scopus? Consult this handy reference sheet to learn what's available.

Research metrics attempt to quantify the research impact of a publication or authors work. Traditionally, two different companies provide author, article, and journal level metric data:

Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thompson Scientific)
Scopus (Elsevier)

The library licenses the Scopus database from Elsevier. Scopus is an interdisciplinary citation database of peer-reviewed literature, featuring tools to track, analyze and visualize various research metrics. The following metrics are available within the database:

Author level
- H-Index
Article level
- PlumX Metrics
Journal level
- CiteScore
- SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
- Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Metrics Toolkit
The Metrics Toolkit is a resource for researchers and evaluators that provides guidance for demonstrating and evaluating claims of research impact. With the Toolkit you can quickly understand what a metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s good match for your impact question.

1. Metrics - How Scopus Works - Scopus - Solutions | Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/metrics. Accessed February 7, 2020.