The Data behind the Rankings: Looking at the Data of Scopus & SciVal

The Data behind the Rankings: Looking at the Data of Scopus & SciVal
Ciarán Quinn
This brief talk will look at the Bibliometric Data (documents & publications) contained in the Scopus Dataset and how its used in the rankings. Rankers use these datasets to examine numbers of citations for publications, number of publications produced, number of publications in the top 10% of journals, current research collaboration profiles and researchers institutional affiliation. Currently Research quality accounts for 30% (citation impact (15%), research strength (5%), research excellence(5%) and research influence (10%)) in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings so they are a significant part of the rankings. Scopus data has been used by the THE since 2014. We will also look at what you can do to improve your profile which will in turn feed into MU's Institutional Profile.