SciVerse Scopus is a multidisciplinary citation and abstract database for research literature and quality web sources. Several tools are available for tracing, analysing and visualising research information. The covered science fields are:
- Sciences, Technolog, Medicine
- Social Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
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Contains citations from scientific articles (References and Citations), enabling citation analysis (Who is quoting whom? Who is being quoted by whom?).
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Comparison Web of Science – Scopus
| Web of Science | SciVerse Scopus | |
| Subject areas | multidisciplinary | multidisciplinary |
| Contents – Journals | 12,000 journals | 18,500 journals (of which 1,800 are open-access) |
| Contents – Conferences | 150,000 conference papers | 4.8 million conference papers from journals and conference proceedings |
| Contents – Patents | 42 million patents from the "Derwent World Patent Index" (Web of Knowledge) | 24.8 million patents from 5 patent offices |
| Contents – Web pages | 375 million web pages via "Scirus" | |
| Volume of data | 46 million entries | 46 million entries |
| References | from 1900 | from 1996 |
| Updates | weekly | daily |
| Period covered | from 1900 | from 1823 |
| Coverage | global, with Anglo-American focus | global, with European focus |
| Identification of authors and institutions | ResearcherID (authors must register) | author ID (assigned automatically), affiliation identifier |
| Functions |
alert service related records (based on shared references) |
alert service related records (based on either shared references, authors or keywords) |
| Literature management | EndNote, RefWorks, BibTeX, etc. | EndNote Web, EndNote, BibTeX, etc. |
| Special features | incorporates "Journal Citation Reports" |
"Articles-in-Press" from more than 3,850 journals All Medline data are included. UTF-8 encoding, to display umlauts and special characters. |
