Scopus

Document-level metrics quantify the reach and impact of published research. Scopus integrates data from PlumX Metrics as the primary source of its article-level metrics, along with traditional measures (such as citations) to present a richer and more comprehensive picture of an individual article’s impact. 

Metrics include:

• Citations in Scopus
• Views Count
• PlumX (see below for more details)

With Scopus document metrics, you can:

• See citation overviews
• Create graphs
• Compare citation counts
• Link to citing documents 

PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact online with individual pieces of research output (such as articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and others). To support like-with-like analysis and help make sense of the huge amounts of data involved, PlumX Metrics are divided into five categories:

• Citations: This category contains both traditional citation indexes, such as Scopus, as well as citations that help indicate societal impact, such as clinical, patent or policy citations.
• Usage: This indicates how often people are reading an article or otherwise using the research. After citations, usage is the statistic that most interests researchers.
• Captures: A capture indicates that someone wants to come back to the work — and it can be a leading indicator of future citations.
• Mentions: This measures activity such as news articles or blog posts about research. It’s a way to tell that people are truly engaging with the research.
• Social media: This category includes tweets, Facebook “likes” and other social media posts that reference the research. Social media can help measure buzz and attention. Social media can also be a good measure of how well a particular piece of research has been promoted.

Plum Print: For quick and easy comprehension, these five categories of metrics are also displayed as a data visualization known as the Plum Print. Each colored circle in the Plum Print represents the metrics in the associated category. The larger the circle, the more metrics in that category.

Note: The five categories are represented separately because each one represents a different type of engagement and should not be combined into a single score.

Beside PlumX Metrics, these additional document metrics are also available in Scopus:

• FWCI (field-weighted citation impact) considers variations in research and citation behavior across disciplines and facilitates benchmarking among disciplines.

It is the number of citations received by a document divided by the expected number of citations for similar documents in the same field of research.

• Citation benchmarking calculates how citations for this article compare with the average for similar articles in the same field.