STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) have announced the establishment and opening of the ISTIC-Elsevier Journal Assessment Research Center.
Based in Beijing, the mission of the ISTIC-Elsevier Journal Assessment Research Center is to enhance China's opportunities in bibliometric research. The research center will focus on identifying research topics of interest to both Elsevier and ISTIC, such as article level bibliometric analyses for measuring journal quality and research performance of individuals and institutions.
In following their mission, the ISTIC-Elsevier Journal Assessment Research Center will use Elsevier's SciVal Spotlight, a web-based tool that enables countries and institutions to evaluate their research performance, measure their strengths against peers and establish and execute research strategies based on objective information, and Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. These Elsevier tools will help extract and integrate insights about China's research performance and advance journal assessment research and article-based analytics. In addition, Scopus data will be included in the ISTIC annual university research performance report.
Elsevier and ISTIC will also establish an Expert Content Selection and Advisory Committee of China (ECSAC-China). The ECSAC-China board members will work closely with Elsevier to evaluate and select Chinese Journals to be submitted for evaluation by the Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board (CSAB), the independent group that approves titles for Scopus indexing.
