How do I create a Citation overview?
Last updated on August 15, 2024
The Citation overview allows you to track and analyze citation metrics for a specific publication, author, or a group of publications/authors. Using the Citation overview, you can:
- Use citation metrics as a measure of the impact and influence of research. For example, you can view how many times a specific work has been cited by others and how it compares to other works in the same field.
- Help identify potential collaborators and to develop new research ideas. By analyzing citation patterns, you can identify other authors and publications that are closely related to your work.
- Discover new sources of information and build upon existing knowledge by exploring the citation relationships.
- Gain insights into your own performance and identify areas for improvement by comparing citation metrics with your peers. This can be useful for career development and grant applications.
Scopus is undergoing migration to a new back-end system to be completed by the end of 2025. In some cases, users may encounter differences between the citation count shown on the Citation overview page and other pages in Scopus due to the different synchronization cycles of the new and old backend systems. Be assured that citation count data on all Scopus pages remains accurate.
There are four locations within Scopus from where you can create a Citation overview:
- From a Document search results list, select up to 10,000 documents to include in the Citation overview.
- From the analyzing and sorting options, select 'View citation overview'.
From an Author profile, select 'Citation overview'.
- From an Author search results list, select up to 15 authors to include in the Citation overview.
- From the analyzing and sorting options, select 'View citation overview'.
- From a Source details page, select the 'Scopus content coverage' tab.
- From the desired publication year, select 'View citation overview'.
From the Citation overview page, you can adjust the date range, filter and sort documents, and view citing documents.
Action |
Description |
|---|---|
Changing the date range |
Select beginning and ending years from the Date range: drop down menus. |
Exclude self citations |
Removes author self-citations. |
Exclude self citations of selected author |
Removes author self-citations of a specific, selected author. |
Exclude self citations of all authors |
Removes author self-citations across all authors. |
Exclude book citations |
Removes book citations for the selected author(s). |
Hide documents with 0 citations |
Removes documents that have no citations. |
Sorting cited documents |
From the Sort by dropdown, you can sort by:
|
Viewing citing documents |
From the documents list, select:
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