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Wednesday, 27th September 2006

Elsevier's Scopus Announces Two New Features: PatentCites and WebCites

Elsevier's Scopus Announces Two New Features: PatentCites and WebCites

From a news release:

+ Patent Cites (went live last week)

...allows users to track how primary research is practically applied in patents. Scopus PatentCites clearly identifies citations from patent sources that cite Scopus articles on the Abstract and References page. Just like article citation counts, PatentCites links directly to the source items. This unique feature enables users to immediately see the relationship of primary research to its practical application in patents and will be of particular value to those working in disciplines such medicine, engineering, chemistry, agriculture or other applied sciences. Among the key growing number of patent sources covered and updated daily are the US Patent Office, European Patent Office and the World Intellectual
Property Organization.

+ Web Cites (coming soon)

WebCites, which is to be launched shortly, is the first step towards enabling Scopus users to track the influence of peer reviewed research on web literature. Influence can be evaluated by how often an article has been cited in other research articles; however, research influence often extends beyond the official scholarly literature. For example, how the article has been used in patents, theses or other "grey literature" often available on the web...users will be able to view citations to articles in Scopus from a growing number of carefully selected scientific web sources such as Institutional Repositories and Thesis and Dissertation databases. Users will be able to gain additional insights into the influence of specific articles and place article citation numbers from outside the peer-reviewed realm into perspective.

Scopus will celebrate its 2nd birthday in November.

See Also: Institute for Scientific Information/Thomson Scientific now offers Web Citation Index
Web Citation Index launched last November.

See Also: Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson Scientific) and NEC To Build Index of Web-based Scholarship (2004)

The Thomson's Scientific Web Citation Index is based in part on technology developed at NEC Research. It continues to powers CiteSeer (Comp Sci, Info Tech) and SmealSearch (business). Both of these excellent databases are free.

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