Like it or not, the h-index and citation counting season is upon us again. Recently I had an interesting case brought to my attention of a Massey researcher in the social sciences who had a pretty reasonable h-index in Scopus and a much better one...Read more
Update 17/03/14: Scopus now appears to be displaying normally in IE 11. If you have switched to IE 11’s compatibility view you may need to disable that view and clear your cache. Scopus is not always displaying correctly in Internet Explorer 11...Read more
Scopus has upgraded to a new look this week. All the same functionality is there, with a few extras. Please contact us if you have any queries...Read more
This week Librarians Nicola McCarthy, Alison Wallbutton and Bruce White, from Turitea Library, recommend one of their favourite resources… We recommend Scopus for staff and postgraduate students. We like it because of its very full citation...Read more
Zombie bibliometrics There are three common misconceptions about journals and research evaluation that don’t seem to want to die, no matter how often angry mobs shoot at them with silver bullets or drive a stake through their hearts. Like many...Read more
The first part of this posting originally appeared on Library Out Loud on Tuesday 13 August. The posting was substantially updated this morning but was then taken off the site – fortunately we are now able to reinstate it. Some minor changes...Read more
My last posting on the appearance of a highly questionable journal in the Scopus database has raised a few eyebrows and has also given rise to the question of whether I may have singled out Scopus, and its parent company Elsevier, unfairly. To...Read more
After my recent posting on Open Access journals I had a closer look at Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory publishers and in particular at the list of suspect journal titles. I had become aware some time ago that at least one very...Read more
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