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Dr. Andrey Kovatchev March 02 2006 Regional
Manager- Middle and Eastern Europe Zagreb a.kovat
chev_at_elsevier.com

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Update on your Elsevier team

• Dr. Andrey Kovatchev Regional Manager
• A.kovatchev_at_elsevier.com
• Sandra Grijzenhout Sales Manager Databases -
  Scopus and Engineering Village
• s.grijzenhout_at_elsevier.com

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Agenda

• Elsevier and the scientific publisher industry
  today
• Citation overview on Scopus
• Scientific output comparison Central and
  Eastern Europe

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Elsevier

• History
• Original Elsevier Company founded 1580, when
  Louis Elsevier began selling books to university
  scholars in Leiden (NL) (authors including
  Galileo, Erasmus and Descartes)
• Modern Elsevier Company founded in 1880
• In the 1950s and 60s Elsevier took its first
  steps toward becoming a global company
• In the 1980s Elsevier Science become part of Reed
  Elsevier Group plc (34 000 employees), the
  Anglo-Dutch media company (LexisNexis,
  Harcourt...)
• Today
• 1 900 journals
• 2 200 book p.a.
• 7 000 employees at 100 locations worldwide
• Provider of the worldwide largest e-full text
  (ScienceDirect) and abstract and indexing
  (Scopus) databases
• several subject e-databases

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Worldwide Scientific Publishers positioning (Top
10)

• 2004 Market share
• Elsevier 25.0
• Springer 7.7
• Blackwell 5.3
• Wiley 4.6
• Taylor Francis 3.0
• Am Chem Soc 3.0
• AIP 2.8
• Wolters Kluwer 2.7
• IEEE 1.9
• Am Phys Soc 1.7
• Elsevier published 25 of all the peer reviewed
  journal papers published in 2004 in all subject
  areas.
• Source Market share analyse May 2005, Executive
  summary

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The 3 Ss

• With gt6.8 million full text articles worlds
  largest full text database
• Nearby Only Elsevier content (Journals, Books)

• Worlds largest bibliographic database
  (no full texts)
• Navigates through 27 million abstracts of 15,000
  titles from 4,000 publishers (not only
  Elsevier)
• New Scopus Citation Tracker

• Elseviers web Search Engine for scientific
  information on the internet
• Freely available
• Integrated in Scopus

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What is the Scopus Citation Tracker?

• A visual, at-a-glance overview of citation
  behavior across any set of chosen articles, over
  any time period
• The Scopus Citation Tracker supports the three
  key needs identified during Scopus research
• Finding the most highly-cited author in a field
  and evaluating his/her relevance
• Tracking hot topics in a particular subject area
• Identifying and evaluating research trends
  visually, and fast
• User chooses which articles to include and how
  many years to include
• Data is calculated real-time

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Identify the author of interest
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Overview of citations
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Identify area of interest
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Middle and Eastern EuropeMacro Data and data on
Higher education and research
Sources OECD, Eurostat, Sales DB, UNICEF
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Croatia macroeconomic data
Croatia
Population x Mio 4.50
GDP x Mio 37,873
GDP / capita (ppp) 12,364
GDP real growth rate 3.4
Inflation 3.0
RD spending as a of GDP 1.1
Researchers 8,572
Article output 1,670
Articles per 100 Researchers 19.5
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Article growth in Eastern Europe is in total 5
p.a., - over world average.
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Croatia article growth
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Articles published in Elsevier are stable on 29
and this is already over the world average of 25.
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Croatia Papers published in Elsevier Journals
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Quality of articles vs the world average
(1.00)Quality is going up strongly
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Croatia article quality vs world
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By field in Eastern Europe
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Thank you