Download the book (PDF): Before choosing a journal or writing a word, an author needs an accurate model of what Scopus is, what it contains, and how a journal becomes and stays part of it. Misconceptions on these points are the source of most wasted effort and most avoidable mistakes. 1. What Scopus Is Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, owned and operated by the publisher Elsevier and launched in 2004. It indexes the metadata, abstracts,
