Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach
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Q2. What is the average distribution of the journals in Ulrich?
It has journals in 97% of Ulrich categories, 62% of which are from the Basic, Experimental and Medical Sciences (accounting for 84.77% of the number of journals), 13.86% from SocialSciences (with 32.47% of journals) and 7.8% from Humanities (scarcely 1.31% of the titles).
Q3. What is the main tool for information retrieval and for science evaluation studies worldwide?
Comprising approximately 8,700 scientific journals in their Web of Science version, they have become the main tool for information retrieval and for science evaluation studies worldwide.
Q4. How many titles correspond to the ISSN in Ulrich’s Directory?
ResultsScopus has a total of 16,658 titles in June 2005, of which just 13,832 initially correspond to the ISSN’s in Ulrich’s Directory.
Q5. How many categories are in Ulrich’s Core?
As a result of the matching process with the Scopus collection, subject distribution in Ulrich’s Core was seen to divide knowledge into 151 categories, while Scopus has titles in 120 of them.
Q6. How many titles are indexed in the Scopus database?
These represent, in turn, 6.59% of titles that match and of those being analysed; 32.51% of these are peer-reviewed, 17.09% are indexed in databases, and 18.13% are electronic journals.