2026 Scopus Product Release Notes.
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- Named after this cute little guy --> Common Chiff Chaff (NOT this guy --> Scopus Hamerkop)
- September 21-23 2026: [Infrastructure]
- Scheduled infrastructure maintenance will take place from September 21-23 , 2026 (window 09:00–13:00 BST) .
- No user impact is expected, but you may experience brief periods of slower performance during the maintenance window.
- September 26, 2026: [Access & Registration]
- Registration, and profile changes will be unavailable on Saturday 26 September, 8:00 AM BST for approximately 4 hours.
- Authentication and authorization will continue as normal.
- January 16, 2026: [Upgrade] New ORCID Connect Flow is now part of the Author Edit Wizard.
- January 22, 2026: [Beta Feature] Quick Search & AI Query Builder.
- For more details see Gen-AI Features in Testing (Beta/Alpha)
- February 25, 2026: [New Feature] Bulk PDF Download plugin support added for Edge browsers
- February 25, 2026: [Upgrade] Documents bulk export affiliation, authors format, and export upgrades
- Resolves discrepancies in particular for address, affiliation, and author data (naming, metadata, formatting)
- February 25, 2026: [Upgrade] New Organization Search results page. UI and system upgrades
- (No major user functionality changes)
- February 25, 2026: [Upgrade] Author Profile Wizard (Edit Profile) system upgrades
- (No major user functionality changes)
- Bugs Highlights
- February 23, 2026: Fixed Bulk PDF Download error for Chrome plugin
- March 10–20, 2026: [Upgrade] Access and sign-in system upgrades (redirection and authentication experience)
- (No major user functionality changes or downtime expected)
- March 17, 2026: [New Feature] Bulk PDF Download Plugin
- Available from the search results page
- Chrome and Edge browser plugin enabled to support other entitlement download
- March 05 - March 26, 2026: [New Feature] Citation Overview limit increase from 10,000 bulk documents to 20,000
- Available from the search results page
- Gradual rollout
- March 10, 2026: [Upgrade] Bulk Export limitation lifted for all kilo-metadata (references, authors)
- April 29, 2026: [New Feature] SciVal Bulk Export limit increase from 20,000 bulk documents to 50,000
- Available from the search results page
- April Upcoming, 2026: [Upgrade] New Authors Search results page. UI and system upgrades
- (No major user functionality changes)
- April Upcoming, 2026: [Upgrade] Document Search Results page system upgrades
- Support very long query strings (implicit limit increased)
- Upgrade redirections to “View in search results” format from the Author Profile coming from “Cited By” and “View References”
- Bugs Highlights
- Export Performance Fixes
- Jun 30, 2026: [New Feature] Organization Profile SDGs Bulk Documents Export.
- Jun 4, 2026: [Upgrade] CiteScore 2025 (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Jul 9, 2026: [New Feature Beta] Bulk PDF Download Hybrid in-house solution (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Available from the search results page
- In-house solution will support ScienceDirect (subscription and open access) entitled downloads
- Incremental user-traffic rollout
- Aug - Sep 07, 2026: [New Feature Beta] AI Query Builder (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Incremental user-traffic rollout
- Aug - Sep 10, 2026: [New Feature] Semantic Search (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Incremental user-traffic rollout
- Aug, 2026: [Upgrade] Advanced Search Medical Queries expanded support
- e.g. this type of complex syntax: TITLE-ABS-KEY("N'-[Amino(2chlorothiazol-5-ylmethylamino) methylene]acetohydrazide")
- Aug - Sep 07, 2026: [New Feature Beta] AI Query Builder (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Incremental user-traffic rollout
- Aug - Sep 10, 2026: [New Feature] Semantic Search (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- Incremental user-traffic rollout
- Sep 10 - Sep 17, 2026: [Upgrade] Scopus AI Upgrade (Read moreopens in new tab/window)
- GPT upgraded to 5.4 series
- 20 years limit lifted (e.g. no longer sourcing documents since 2003)
- Improved answers quality, relevancy and hallucinations
- Query intent and multilanguage enhancements
- Confidence Level added to Summary for certain types of queries.
- Q4, 2026: [Anticipated] Scopus Guest APIs partial changes
- Some APIs will no longer be accessible via Guest access. More details will be added in Q4
- Still cooking in the press
- Still cooking in the press
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