A one-stop shop for editors
Christine Erb

Type a search query into any general search engine, and chances are Wikipedia will appear somewhere within the first ten results. But where does the scientific community go to find publicly available, yet credible scientific information online? SciTopics (formerly Scirus Topic Pages), was launched on 20 January 2009 precisely to offer the answer.

External link  SciTopics is a free, science-specific Web service that offers journal editors the ideal solution to address their information needs as a researcher, author and editor in one place without having to go to multiple websites and applications.

Each page on SciTopics is written by an expert in a field, who is invited to contribute by a subject editor, a profiled author or an Elsevier journal editor. This strict editorial policy guarantees the quality of the site’s content, while ensuring the content is also accessible for readers who may specialize in a different area.

Authors list references and relevant links to other websites. Automatically generated links to the most recent and most cited articles from External link  Scopus and links to relevant results on the Web and news results via External link  Scirus are also included on the SciTopics page.

Journal authors and editors can also contribute SciTopics pages, increasing their visibility, social networking capabilities and web exposure.

“We are constantly working to improve External link  SciTopics and we welcome any feedback on the service and its functionalities,” says Christine Erb, Product Manager SciTopics. “But with 488 active authors and 30,880 visits in October 2008, it’s clear we’re becoming an increasingly popular and valuable resource.”

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