What should I do if I have documents missing from my Author Profile?
Last updated on March 16, 2026
If any Compendex documents are missing from your Engineering Village author profile, you must check to see whether they are available in Engineering Village.
Note: Corrections for missing documents associated with your author profile in Engineering Village are limited to authors within Compendex records. Engineering Village cannot request corrections for other databases at this time.
If you can find your Compendex documents in Engineering Village, you can request updates to your author profile using the Author Feedback Wizard in Scopus. The wizard allows you to do the following:
- Add or remove documents associated with your profile
- Merge author profiles (if your documents are split across multiple author profiles)
If you cannot find your Compendex documents in Engineering Village, you can submit a Missing Document request.
Refer to the sections below for instructions for either scenario.
- Open the Author Feedback form. The Scopus Author Feedback page opens.
- Enter the author's last and first names in the appropriate search fields.
- Add Name variants or Affiliations (if desired) to narrow the search results.
- Select ‘Search.’ The Author search results page opens.
- From the author search results, select the checkbox for the author profile you want to update.
- Select ‘Edit profile.’ The ‘Is this your own profile?’ page opens.
- From this pop-up page, select whether this is your author profile or if you are requesting changes on behalf of someone else.
Click ‘Cancel’ to stop this operation or ‘Continue’ to access the next page. The Author Feedback Wizard opens.
- From the Author Feedback Wizard, select ‘Documents.’ The Documents section opens.
- Locate the document(s) to remove from the author profile.
- Select ‘Remove from profile.’ for each document to be removed.
- Select the ‘Review changes’ button.
Select ‘Submit request’ to submit the change for review or ‘Continue editing’ to return to the Author Feedback Wizard to make more changes.
Note: Changes are not immediate and will not appear in Engineering Village or within the Author Feedback Wizard until processing has been completed.
- From the Author Feedback Wizard, select ‘Documents.’ The Documents section opens.
- From the document list, select ‘Search for missing documents on Scopus.’ The ‘Search for missing documents’ pop-up window opens.
- From the ‘Search within’ dropdown menu, select a field type.
- (‘All Fields’ is the default):
- Enter your search term in the ‘Search documents’ field.
- Select ‘Search Search.’ The ‘Search for a missing document on Scopus’ document results list opens.
- From the document result list, select the document(s) to add to your Author Feedback Wizard document list.
- Select ‘Add to profile.’ The second ‘Search for a missing document’ pop-up window opens.
- Within the ‘Search authors’ box, enter the author's name.
- Select the author associated with the document.
- Select ‘Add Document.’ The document results list redisplays.
- If there are any further documents to add, repeat steps 6-10.
- Select the ‘Review changes’ button.
Select ‘Submit request’ to submit the change for review or ‘Continue editing’ to return to the Author Feedback Wizard to make more changes.
If applicable, you may also select from the list of recommended documents. In some instances, the Author Feedback Wizard has located one or more documents that might belong to your author profile. If this is the case, there will be a link to the suggested documents at the top of the Document results list.
- Click this link to access the suggested documents list.
- Review the document title.
- If it belongs to your author profile, select ‘Add to profile.’ The ‘Add to profile’ pop-up window opens.
- From the list of authors, select your name.
- Select ‘Add Document.’
- Select the ‘Review changes’ button.
- Select ‘Submit request’ to submit the change for review or ‘Continue editing’ to return to the Author Feedback Wizard to make more changes.
Note: Changes are not immediate and will not appear in Engineering Village or within the Author Feedback Wizard until processing has been completed.
Your author profile is based on the information in the documents associated with your profile. For example, if you have multiple profiles, you will need to merge them in order to have a complete set of documents and profile information. If you see that you have multiple profiles where your documents are linked to, you can request to merge author profiles using the Author Feedback Wizard.
- Open the Author Feedback form. The Scopus Author Feedback page opens.
- Enter the author's last and first names in the appropriate search fields.
- Add Name variants or Affiliations (if desired) to narrow the search results.
- Select ‘Search.’ The Author search results page opens.
- From the Author search results page, select the checkboxes for one or more author profiles you want to merge.
- Select ‘Request to merge authors.’ The ‘Is this your own profile?’ page opens.
- From this pop-up page, select whether this is your author profile or if you are requesting changes on behalf of someone else.
- Click ‘Cancel’ to stop this operation or ‘Continue’ to access the next page. The Author Feedback Wizard opens with the merged authors' names at the top of the page.
- Select ‘Review request.’ The details of the proposed author profile merger are displayed on the page.
- Select ‘Edit’ to change any details on this page as needed.
- Select ‘Submit request’ or ‘Continue editing’ to make any further edits.
Additionally, you may add or remove documents from the author profile merge. Refer to the sections listed above for instructions to remove or add documents to your author profile merger.
Note: Changes are not immediate and do not appear in Engineering Village or within the Author Feedback Wizard until processing has been completed.
If you cannot find the Compendex document(s) in Engineering Village, you can submit a Missing Document request.
- Open the webform.
- Under Contact reason, select ‘Add Missing Document.’
- From the dropdown menu, select one of the options describing the missing document.
- Complete all the remaining details regarding the missing document and your contact details.
- Select ‘Send your question.’
The content team will review your request and investigate the missing document(s).
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