Which one of the following is the parent organisation of SCOPUS?

AAmerican Chemical Society

BThomson Reuters

CSpringer

DElsevier ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) Elsevier

Explanation

SCOPUS is the abstract and citation database owned by Elsevier, the Dutch publishing house.

The American Chemical Society runs CAS and SciFinder, not SCOPUS.

Thomson Reuters formerly owned Web of Science, now held by Clarivate.

Springer publishes journals but does not own SCOPUS.

SCOPUS launched in 2004 and indexes peer-reviewed literature across disciplines.

It supplies citation metrics such as the h-index and CiteScore.

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