How do I work with author search results?

Search for authors by entering Author last name (mandatory) AND Author First name (optional) AND Affiliation name (optional)

Enter last name: Smith AND Enter first name: Adam AND Enter affiliation name: Harvard

For example, searching with Author last name Smith and Author first name J.L. finds Smith, J.L. and not Smith, L.J. Furthermore, searching Smith, J. only finds Smith authors with J as the first initial—there may be other initials after the first initial, but J must be first.

Search for authors by entering their ORCID (mandatory). You can only search for one ORCID at a time. 

Enter ORCID: 0000-0002-1825-0097

Scopus provides the options to refine your list of author search results and to limit the results list according to more specific categories.

For an author search results list, you can refine the results based on:

• Affiliation
• City
• Country/Territory

For more information, see How do I filter and refine my search results?

Author search results are sorted by the number of documents, highest number of documents first. To sort them by different criteria, select 'Sort on' to choose an option from the drop down list at the top of the results page.

• Sorting applies to the entire set of results.
• The sorting option you choose remains selected for future, signed in sessions, until you change it.

Document count

• Document count (high-low) - Results are sorted in descending order of the highest document publication count first.
• Document count (low-high) - Results are sorted in descending order of the lowest document publication count first.

Author

• Author (A-Z) or (Z-A) - Results are sorted by author name in alphabetical order

Affiliation (Retired in summer 2026) 

• Affiliation (A-Z) - Results are sorted by Affiliation name in alphabetical order from A-Z.

City

• City (A-Z) or (Z-A) - Results are sorted by City name in alphabetical order.

Country/Territory

• Country/Territory (A-Z) or (Z-A) - Results are sorted by Country/Territory name in alphabetical order.

H-index (Added in summer 2026) 

• H-index  (high-low) - Results are sorted in descending order of the highest document publication count first.
• H-index  (low-high) - Results are sorted in descending order of the lowest document publication count first

Use Export CSV  to export up to 4000 authors.

1. Select an author or multiple authors.
2. Select 'Export CSV' and specify the number of authors you would like to export. 
3. CSV file exported contains the following metadata: Author Name, Auth-ID, Number of Documents, Subject Areas, ORCID

Use Show documents to display a results list for a selected author or authors.

1. Select an author or multiple authors.
2. Select 'Show documents'. A results list opens listing all documents published for the selected author or authors.

Use this option to claim your author profile. This option changes to 'Request to merge authors' if more than one author is selected. 

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Use this option to request that Scopus merges a selected number of authors from a results list into a single profile.

1. From the Author results list, tick the checkboxes next to the author names you would like to merge into a single author profile.
2. Select 'Request to merge authors'. The Author feedback wizard opens with the selected names on the form.
3. Select 'Start'.
4. Choose the preferred author name and select 'Next'.

5. Review documents in the profile and select 'Next'.

   Note: If the documents are incorrect, select 'Edit documents' to add and remove documents from the list.

6. Provide your contact details and click 'Submit'.

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