The foundations of the SCOPUS title evaluation platform

Rew, David (2025) The foundations of the SCOPUS title evaluation platform (Essays in the Art and Science of Academic Journal Editing and Publishing) University of Southampton 33pp.

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Abstract

The paper describes the creation of SCOPUS and the formation of the SCOPUS Content Selection and Advisory Board, based upon my personal material.

SCOPUS is a major global system for bibliometrics, and it is linked to Pure and to SCIVAL, which are also systems which have been purchased by the University of Southampton.

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Published date: 15 August 2025

Additional Information: David Rew, MA MB MChir (Cambridge) FRCS (London). Honorary Consultant Surgeon to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK And to the Clinical Informatics Research Unit. Former Editor in Chief of the EJSO, The European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2003-2009. Subject Chair for Medicine to the SCOPUS Content Selection Advisory Board, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, 2009 to the Present.

Keywords: Scopus, Content Selection Advisory Board, Bibliometrics: Ulrich’s Periodicals, Web of Science