Scopus is a well known repository of metadata about scientific research articles. In this work, we gather data from this repository to create a social graph of scientific authors, starting from citations among their articles. Moreover, using data mining techniques, we infer some relevant research topics for each author, from the textual analysis of the abstracts of his articles. As a case study...

The Scopus database provides access to STM journal articles and the references included in those articles, allowing the searcher to search both forward and backward in time. The database can be used for collection development as well as for research. This review provides information on the key points of the database and compares it to Web of Science. Neither database is inclusive, but complemen...

1. The SNIP indicator of Elsevier’s Scopus cannot be considered as a statistics because it is based on dividing the mean of a distribution by the value of the median of another distribution. Using this ratio, one is no longer able to indicate the standard error or to test for the significance of differences between journals or journal groups. In our opinion, one should first normalize and then ...

Publication information Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Biomembranes Volume: 1858 Issue number: 10 ISSN (Print): 0005-2736 Ratings: Scopus rating (2016): SJR 1.511 SNIP 1.101 CiteScore 3.55 Scopus rating (2015): SJR 1.782 SNIP 1.142 CiteScore 3.8 Scopus rating (2014): SJR 1.869 SNIP 1.09 CiteScore 3.64 Scopus rating (2013): SJR 1.592 SNIP 0.975 CiteScore 3.45 Scopus rating (2012): SJR 1...

introduction: today, in the era of information, the main parameter for scientific assessment of countries, and academic centers is their contributions to the development of science and technology. this study was conducted to evaluate scientific outcomes of ardabil university of medical sciences and its faculty members until the end of july 2014. methods: in a descriptive study on bibliographic ...

introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...

The purpose of this paper is to extend our earlier work on the contributions to the mini-track on Knowledge Economics at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). In the present work, we analyze 16 contributions from 2012 to 2016 and based on our analysis, we propose the Six Pillars of Knowledge Economics framework. The proposed framework articulates that six elements are ...