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Quick Reference Guide

Logging into Scopus for personalized features
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A. Register for and log into Scopus to take advantage of a range ofpersonalized features.

B. ‘Saved lists’ allows you to rename, edit, delete, add to or export yoursaved lists.

C. ‘Saved searches’ allows you to rename, edit, delete, combine or set

an alert for saved searches. You can also run a saved search to viewthe results since the search was last run.

D. ‘Alerts’ allows you to edit, delete or change the status of your alerts.

You can also check for new results based upon the date that the alert
was created.

E. ‘Export preferences’ allows you to choose a preferred file type orreference management tool when exporting documents.

F. ‘Requests (Dashboard)’ links to your personal dashboard, where you
can view and manage your Author Feedback correction requests;
your Institution Profile Wizard correction requests and your Scopus
support requests.

G. The ‘My Elsevier’ section allows you to manage your Elsevier accountdetails and your privacy settings.

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A. Enter your search term(s) into the search box.
B. By default, Scopus will search in the Article title, Abstract andKeywords of documents. You can specify in which fields to searchusing the drop-down menu.

C. Use the ‘+Add’ search field option to add additional fields.
D. Each new search field is combined using the Boolean operators
AND, OR and NOT.

E. Select ‘Add date range’ to either select a publication date range or toHI

G. For more information on setting up a search query in Scopus, youcan select ‘Search tips.’

H. Your ‘Search History’ is displayed with the option to ‘Set Alert’ tonotify you by email of new search results in Scopus that matchthat search.

I. Select ‘More’ to save an important query or to delete a query.
J. To combine queries from your history, choose two or more
searches and select ‘Combine queries.’

specify an ‘added to Scopus’ date range.

F. To see a complete list of field codes, select ‘Advanced document search.’

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A. Quickly review or edit your search from the top of the page.
B. Registered users can sign in to save searches or to set a search alert

to be notified when new documents are added to Scopus that match
this search.

C. You can refine your results using the menu on the left. You cansearch within your results or use filters. For each of the filters, you canselect the corresponding arrow to see what is included. Then, tick thecheckboxes for your desired filters and select ‘Limit to’ or ‘Exclude.’

D. To select single or multiple search results items, select thecorresponding checkbox next to a results list item. To select allsearch results items on a page, tick the ‘All’ checkbox.

E. Once search results have been selected, ‘Export’ selected items to aF. Selecting ‘More’ gives you the following options: ‘Save to list;’‘View Cited by;’ or ‘View references.’

G. By default, the search results are sorted by date. Use the ‘Sort by’
drop-down menu to sort in a different order.

H. Click ‘Show abstract’ to display the abstract. ‘View at Publisher’ opens

the full text on the publisher website, if authorized. ‘Related documents’displays related documents based on shared references. Links to fulltext and other library services depend on how Scopus has been setup
for your institution.

I. View related ‘Patents;’ ‘Secondary documents’ (documents that havebeen extracted from a Scopus document reference list but are notavailable directly in the Scopus database); and ‘Research data.’

file or to a reference management tool such as Mendeley; ‘Download’
documents using the Scopus Document Download Manager; or use the‘Citation overview’ to track how often articles have been cited.

*Note: this is the redesigned Scopus Search Results page, which users canaccess by performing a Scopus search and clicking on the “Try the testversion” banner at the top of the page.

Citation overview and Analyze results

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A. Clicking ‘Citation overview’ on a search results page shows how often

articles have been cited by other documents per year. Customize youroverview by deleting a citing document; changing the sort order ordate range; or excluding self citations and book citations.

B. Clicking ‘Analyze results’ on a search results page provides an analysisof your search results and shows you the number of documents inyour search results broken down (on separate tabs) by year, source,author, affiliation, country, document type, subject area and fundingsponsor. Click on individual cards to expand and view additional data.

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Working with a document
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A. Click an author name to go to the details page for that author.
B. ‘View PDF’ lets users who are entitled to the full-text of an article(either via open access or through their institutional subscription)
reach it with one click.

C. ‘Full text options’ can include ‘View repository version’ which links

F. ‘Indexed keywords’ are derived from thesauri that Elsevier owns orlicenses and are added to improve search recall. This also contains‘Author keywords’ and additional matched terms which can include
Chemicals and CAS Registry Numbers, Tradenames and Manufacturers.

G. ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) are specific researchareas that are helping to solve real-world problems. Sustainable
to the repository version of the articles that have Green open access
Development Goals are mapped to a document by matching terms
status; ‘View at Publisher’ which links directly to the article on thefrom a Scopus record against search queries, plus a predictive
publisher’s website; and/or ‘Order Document’ which lets users request
machine learning element, for each SDG.
the document from their library (if the account has the Document
H. A ‘SciVal Topic’ is a collection of documents with a common
Delivery Service enabled).
intellectual interest and can be large or small, new or old, growing
D. View the three most recent documents to cite this article here. Youor declining in momentum.
can also choose to display all citing works or to set an alert to keep
I. ‘Metrics’ are article level metrics which allow you to evaluate bothinformed about new citations.
citation impact and levels of community engagement around an article.
E. View ‘Related documents’ (with shared references, authors or keywords).
J. ‘Funding details’ include grant number and the name and acronym of
the funding sponsor.

K. View the ‘References’ cited in this document. The titles link to theabstract pages for those articles.

Working with author informationABDECFGH

A. To search for an author, select the ‘Authors’ tab. From the ‘Searchusing’ dropdown, select ‘Author name’ or ‘ORCID.’

B. When searching by author name, the last name of the author isrequired. You can also enter a first name or initials. An affiliation
name can be added to further narrow your results.

C. The author profile provides the author’s name, affiliations and Scopus
Author ID. To view other name formats, affiliation history and subject
areas, select ‘View more.’

D. Select ‘Connect to ORCID’ to add your author profile details toORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier).

E. ‘Set alert’ allows you to create either a document alert or a citation
alert for this author. ‘Save to list’ will save the author details to asaved author list.

Quick Reference GuideF. Selecting ‘More’ allows you to either ‘View potential author matches’or ‘Export profile to SciVal.’ ‘View potential author matches’ helps
you to verify that you have the correct author and will show similar
profiles. ‘Export profile to SciVal’ exports information from the author
details page to SciVal.

G. ‘Document & citations trends’ is a summary graph displaying anauthor’s publications and total annual citations. ‘Analyze author
output’ provides graphs of the author’s output. ‘Citation overview’displays the documents for an author and includes the number oftimes the documents were cited per year.

H. The author profile lists all the author’s documents and is the default

tab. There are additional tabs to view ‘Cited by Documents’, ‘Preprints’,‘Co-Authors’, ‘Topics’ and ‘Awarded Grants.’

7Author Profile Wizard and Analyze author output

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A. Select ‘Edit profile’ to access the Author Feedback Wizard to request
changes or updates to the information on a Scopus Author Profile.

B. Set a preferred name for an author.
C. Update the affiliation of an author.
D. Add and remove documents published by an author; preprints
published by an author; or grants awarded to an author.

E. Select ‘Analyze author output’ to view and share an author’s output
in terms of their publications, h-index, citations and co-authors.

F. The ‘Documents’ tab displays the total number of documents

published by an author, including by source type, document type,year and subject area.

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G. The ‘h-index’ tab displays the h-index in either graph or table form.
H. The ‘Citations’ tab displays the number of citations the author hasreceived for their publications.

I. The ‘co-authors’ tab lists the number of documents written with anauthor’s most frequent co-authors.

Researcher DiscoveryABCDFE

A. Selecting the ‘Researcher Discovery’ tab allows you to conduct a
keyword search to find relevant researcher matches and quickly
build a view of the individuals contributing to a particular field.

B. Enter your search term(s) into the search box.
C. Filter by year of publication, country or organization.
D. Review a researcher’s matching documents.
E. Click on ‘Preview profile’ for a synopsis of the author’s information(including latest affiliation, years of experience and year of latest
matching document), most contributed topics, latest publicationand e-mail address.

F. Click on ‘View full profile’ to explore an author’s full Scopus
Author Profile.

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9Working with organization information

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A. To search for an organization, select the ‘Affiliations’ tab. The search

will begin to auto-populate once you begin to type in the affiliation’sname. You can select a name from the auto-populated list, or you
can hit the search button. If you select the search button, a list ofaffiliations will be returned.

B. From an Organization profile page, users can view document output

by subject area or by source; view the organization structure; and view
collaborating affiliations.

C. ‘Set document alert’ to be notified when new documents are added.

*Note: this is the redesigned Scopus Organization profile page, whichusers can access by clicking on the “Try the test version” banner at the
top of an Affiliation details page.

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KA. To browse a list of all journals, book series, trade publications andconference proceedings available on Scopus, select ‘Sources’ from theScopus homepage.

B. You can search for sources by subject area, title, publisher or ISSN,
which you can select from the search drop-down menu.

C. Select your filtering options, and then select ‘Apply.’
D. Download the entire Scopus source list as a Microsoft® Excel®
spreadsheet.

E. You can sort listed sources according to the column features, suchas listing source titles based on alphabetical order, or by using one ofthe other list indicators.

F. Select the title of a source to open the Source details page.
G. Title, subscription and publishing information appears at the top of
every source information page.

H. View all documents for the source, set up a document alert, save thesource to a list or access the source’s home page.

Quick Reference GuideI. Scopus includes source metrics to allow you to directly compare sources:• CiteScore measures average citations received per document
published in the serial.
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) measures weighted citations received
by the serial. Citation weighting depends on subject field andprestige of the citing serial.
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures actual citations
received relative to citations expected for the serial’s subject field.

J. The ‘CiteScore’ tab details a source’s impact on serial publications.
K. ‘CiteScore Tracker’ is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but forthe current year rather than previous, complete years. The CiteScore
Tracker calculation is updated every month.

L. The ‘CiteScore rank & trend’ tab provides a view of the source’s rank
and percentile for each subject category that it belongs to.

M. ‘Scopus content coverage’ displays how many documents Scopus has
indexed for this source each year.

N. The ‘Compare sources’ tool allows you to search for then select sources
for comparison within either a chart or table view. You can compare up
to 10 sources with a variety of parameters.

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