The key features and functionalities of Scopus that the surveyed company uses:
- Said they use the Scopus On a project basis.
- Rated the following aspects of Scopus:
- intuitive user interface: best in class
- overall content quality: great
- content coverage for journals, books and conferences: great
- search results analysis capability: great
- Rated how well Scopus supports the following:
- finding researchers or opinion leaders for collaboration: Very well
- finding researchers or opinion leaders for potential hires: Very well
- tracking research trends over time: excellently
- scouting for the latest developments: Very well
- analyzing the market and competitor output: Very well
- Said compared to tools they’ve used, their favorite aspects of Scopus are the following:
- Smart tools to analyze and visualized results
- Said if they were to no longer have access to Scopus, they estimate spending less than 20% more time to collect equivalent information.