Cited Reference Searchin

Linda Galloway Syracuse University Library May 2014

Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Scopus’ 50 million records consist of:• 29 million records, including references, going back to 1995 (84%

include abstracts)• 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers • 5.5 million conference papers• “Articles-in-Press” from more than 3,850 journals and

publishers • 21 million pre-1996 records going back as far as 1823• Scopus also cross-searches 25.2 million patents from five patent

offices

Linda Galloway

Disambiguation…. Valid data = Valid metrics

Accurate attribution of research products is the most important first step in a citation analyses.

• Scholarly authors are assigned many identifiers such as Scopus Author ID, Web of Science Researcher ID, institutional ID’s

• Scholars should register for an ORCID - Open Researcher Identifier – this ID is supported by many publishers & platforms.

• Scholars can claim and make public their Google Scholar profile

Choose ‘Author Search’ tab

Enter author’s name in in correct format. In most

cases, do not select ‘exact matches’.

Scopus groups authors to aid in disambiguation. In

this example, Dr. Parks has one author profile (as

it should be).

Select author(s) and choose

‘Show Documents’

Select only those articles attributable to author

View Citation Overview

Change date range, if desired

H index

Can print or export the data

More than one author profile

• Occasionally an author will have more than one profile

• What to do??– Authors should use an ORCID to uniquely identify

their works.– Authors (or librarians) can request to merge

author profiles in Scopus – be very careful about correct attribution of works!

Scopus groups authors to aid in

disambiguation. In this example, all grouped authors are the same

person.

Multiple Author ProfilesIn this case, an author has more than one Scopus profile…

To correct profile errors…Dr. Mao should use

the ‘Request to merge authors ’ link

to merge her profiles. At this

point, she has three Author ID’s in

Scopus.

Questions??

• Linda Galloway, galloway@syr.edu

• Scopus Citation Overview help: http://help.scopus.com

Linda Galloway Syracuse University Library May 2014