Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the January launch of its online literature research tool, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1. The new tool is projected to speed up the search process by enabling users to find all the documents belonging to a specific organisation.
The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 tool automatically identifies and matches an organisation with all its research output. Scopus is claimed to be the first to offer its customers such an organisational matching functionality across its entire database of over 15,000 peer reviewed journals. The tool is expected to benefit deans, faculty heads, researchers and funding bodies who currently find the task difficult and time-consuming.
Using a combination of sophisticated algorithms and a comprehensive knowledge base, the new Scopus tool will quicken the rate at which data can be collated for research performance measurement at the institutional level. The feature automatically matches the multiple name variants attributed to an organisation. This is seen to be extremely useful where several name variants of an organisation may exist or may be recorded differently by publishing authors.
The next phase of the tool, scheduled for release later in the first half of 2008, will offer users enhanced functionalities. Scopus is actively soliciting feedback from individual organisations to enhance data clarity.
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