974 Customers Surveyed
6,352 Data Points Collected
45 Published TechFacts
9 Published Charts
6 Published Case Studies
Scopus Case Study
This is a case study of Scopus customers based in Central and South America who were surveyed in a May 2017 survey of Scopus customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“If Scopus were not available, we would be almost blind to scientific progress.” – Principle Investigator, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
“Using Scopus, I can easily export data I need for analysis purposes.” – Student, Universidade Federal do Parana (Brazil)
“Scopus helps me identify primary sources.” – Researcher, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
“Scopus enables a detailed search with keywords and sends me notices of the articles that I am interested in.” – Graduate Student, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
“[Without Scopus, I would lose] a very complete and important source of information for my research work.” – Maria Eugenia Hidalgo Bastidas, Graduate Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Students, faculty, and researchers at institutions throughout Central and South America face a variety of challenges in navigating the scholarly information landscape. Survey respondents credit Scopus most often in supporting their work in three key ways:
Survey respondents identify three Scopus features in particular that are most valuable to their workflow:
71% of survey respondents in Central & South America have used both Scopus and Web of Science. Scopus earns top scores from users in the following areas:
Scopus Customer Research
Which feature(s) of Scopus do you use most or find to be most useful?
| Search for documents and analyze search results |
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| Search for and view my or another author’s profile |
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| Export documents and citations, create bibliographies |
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| Search for and/or compare journals |
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| Analyze citations for a particular set of documents |
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| Set alerts (search, author citation, document citation) |
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| Search for and view affiliation profiles |
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Elsevier Scopus Case Study
This case study of Royal Dutch Shell PLC is based on a September 2016 survey of Elsevier Scopus customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“New Energy Efficiency Techniques.”
“Make it faster and focused research site.”
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Elsevier Scopus:
The key features and functionalities of Elsevier Scopus that the surveyed company uses:
The surveyed company achieved the following results with Elsevier Scopus:
Scopus Customer Satisfaction Rating
Mohammed Ishaq Mohammed, Graduate Student, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, recommends Scopus:
Scopus provides cutting-edge research articles and other academic resources that help researchers to [stay] abreast [of] recent happenings in their fields of studies.
Based on a response of 10 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend Scopus?”
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