What is SCOPUS?

ASoftware to prepare a PhD thesis

BA database containing abstracts and citations of academic journals ✓ Correct

CAn agency to fund research and development

DPlagiarism-checking software

Correct answer: (B) A database containing abstracts and citations of academic journals

Explanation

Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer reviewed academic literature owned by Elsevier.

It indexes journals, conference papers and books and tracks how often each work is cited.

Software to prepare a PhD thesis describes word processing or reference tools, not an indexing database.

An agency to fund research and development names bodies like funding councils, which Scopus is not.

Plagiarism checking software names tools such as Turnitin that compare text for similarity.

Web of Science is the comparable rival citation database used for the same bibliometric purposes.

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