(Yicai) Sept. 12 -- Elsevier, a Dutch academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical content, has integrated generative artificial intelligence technology with its Scopus database to improve accessibility to research works, according to its chief executive.

“We have just launched our first alpha product with Scopus to summarize very complex research and make it accessible for experts in other disciplines as well as the general public,” Kumsal Bayazit said at the Pujiang Innovation Forum in Shanghai. Scopus AI will continue to be updated, she noted.

Amsterdam-based Elsevier publishes more than 2,800 top academic journals, including The Lancet and Cell. It prints around 600,000 articles every year, accounting for 18 percent of the world's total and 28 percent of global paper citations.

The quality of articles from China has improved over the past decade, Bayazit told Yicai.

The Field-Weighted Citation Impact, a metric that indicates how the number of citations received by an article compares with the average or expected citations received by other similar publications, for works by Chinese authors in the past five years has been 10 percent higher than the global average and for their works published by Elsevier it has been 76 percent over the average.

“The purpose of open science is to ensure that we are collectively working on global challenges together as one community, so that you can make more progress quickly,” Bayazit pointed out.

The share of papers written through international cooperation in the global field increased to 22 percent last year from 10 percent in 1996, Bayazit said. Among works from China, their share via international cooperation rose to 20 percent from 15 percent, she added, noting that the momentum toward global open cooperation in the scientific community leads to more collaboration.

The three-day Pujiang Innovation Forum ended yesterday.

Editor: Martin Kadiev