II Online Training Cycle of the Scopus Database

The FECYT, together with Elsevier, has organized the II Online Training Cycle of the Scopus Database that will take place throughout the second semester of 2025, with the aim of making known the updates, changes and novelties of this database, through several free sessions, in Spanish, and that will be held during the coming months.

The sessions offered for the month of Desember 2025 are:

• Desember 2 (from 10 to 12 am): Scopus: basic and intermediate level
  o Create your user
  o Perform searches and analyze the results page and various metrics related to the articles
  o Evaluate the quality of journals using metrics such as CiteScore, SNIP and Scimago
  o Get to know the author and institution pages
  o Get to know the sources indexed in Scopus
   

• Desember 3 (from 15 to 16 pm): Scopus: metrics and comparison of journals
  o How the Scopus fence mechanisms work
  o What is a research query?
  o Use field codes, boolean operators, proxy operators, common characters and others to optimize your boundaries
  o Check proper or exact parameters.

• Desember 4 (from 10 to 11 am): Scopus: question and answer session
  o Participate in this open Q&A session to answer questions about Scopus, the largest reference and citation database in the world.

As usual, it should be remembered that these sessions are open and aimed at all students, researchers and users who are part of any Spanish R&D&I institution with a Scopus license.

You can consult all the sessions and formalize your prior registration through this link. The first time you access it, you will be asked to validate yourself in SABiDi with your university credentials. From here, you can choose the session or sessions of your interest. Use the URV institutional email when filling out the registration form. Once formalized, you will receive a confirmation email that you must save because it contains the link to be able to access the session on the day and time indicated. Check your spam folder if you have not received it.

All users who take the courses and answer 100% of all the online questions that will be asked live throughout the session will receive a satisfaction survey by email and, a few weeks later, the certificate of attendance.

 Recorded sessions and training material from other courses on Scopus and also on Web of Science can also be downloaded.