Thank you to everyone for their speedy replies. I seem to have opened a can of worms here.

 

Several people gave me a link to a 2006 article about Scopus which says “The database claims 4600 health science titles are indexed including 100% MEDLINE coverage, 100% of EMBASE coverage and 100% of Compendex coverage.”

 

However, Elsevier’s Embase pages say “Scopus includes most, but not all, Embase content”, before going on to recommend Embase for more comprehensive searches as Embase uses Emtree much more effectively.

 

I may have to contact Elsevier on this one.

 

Jane

 

 

 

Hi everyone,

 

I’ve just had an email from an academic who has had some feedback from a reviewer about the search she did for her systematic review. The reviewer says:

 

“EMBASE was searched, which is a part of SCOPUS, which has many journals from CEE which are indexed in SCOPUS but not in other databases (see, for example: Mongeon, P. & Paul-Hus, A. Scientometrics 2016)”

 

CEE = Central & Eastern Europe which is the area of the world the SR was looking at.

 

I’m pretty sure EMBASE is not a part of SCOPUS (if it is, I’ll ask our acquisitions team to stop purchasing both!) but I can’t find any reliable information to confirm/deny this. Does anyone know of anywhere this is discussed?

 

Thanks a lot,

Jane

 

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