What can I do on an Author details page?

The Author details page provides the author name, associated affiliations, Scopus Author ID information, and other name formats.

To view other name formats, affiliation history, and subject areas, select 'Show all author info'.

Some authors have similar names, or their names can appear differently in various publications. The Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes between these names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author. For example, an author may appear as Lewis, M.; Lewis, M. J.; and Lewis, Michael in different publications, or there may be two authors named John Smith.

For more information, see What is the Scopus Author Identifier?

When your user profile is linked to its unique ORCID, viewers can see the link to that ORCID on the Author details page or search for your profile using that number.

Select 'Connect to ORCID' to add your author profile details to ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier).

For more information, see How do I import author details to ORCID?

You can request corrections if you see an error with an author profile using the Author Feedback Wizard. The Author Feedback Wizard allows you to:

• Correct author details
• Add or remove documents associated with the profile
• Merge/split profiles

Select 'Edit profile' to launch the Author Feedback Wizard. For more information, see How do I use the Author Feedback Wizard?

You can create an email alert to be notified when Scopus publishes new documents by an author or to notify you when another document cites an author’s work.

1. Select 'Set alert'to access the Set Alert function.
   Note: You can edit the name of the search, email address(es), the frequency, and email format of the alert.
2. Select 'Set document alert'. A confirmation email is sent to the specified addresses.

For more information, see How do I create, edit and delete alerts?

Select 'Save to list' to save the author details to a saved author list.

For more information, see How do I manage my Saved lists?

The View potential author matches feature helps you to verify that you have the correct author.

Select 'View potential author matches' to show similar profiles, based on your search criteria.

For more information, see How do I create a group of authors?

Select 'Export profile to SciVal' to export information from the author details page to SciVal. The SciVal Researchers and Groups page opens for your SciVal account, displaying the exported author information.

The h-index displays the publishing information for a single author, multiple authors, or a group of selected documents. The h-index is based on the highest number of papers included that have had at least the same number of citations.

Select 'View h-graph' to open the Analyze author output page. The h-graph tab is opened with the author's calculated h-index. For more information see the Analyze author output page.

For more information about the h-graph, see How can I use an h-graph?

The Document & citations trends graph is a summary graph displaying an author’s publications and total annual citations. This graph provides a quick way to see the recent productivity of an author.

Graph details:

• Shows the number of documents published and the number of citations.
• Appears only for authors having more than 1 year of data.
• Shows data points only for years in which the author has data.
• The x-axis shows the lowest and highest number determined by the author's data. For example, if the most citations an author received in a year was 2, then the highest number is 2.
• For more details about the data for a year, move your cursor over the data point.
• To view a documents/citing documents results list for a year, select the corresponding data point.

The Analyze author output page provides a visual graph of document, h-index, citations, co-author information, and other functions.

Select 'Analyze author output' to view and analyze the publishing output for an author or a group of matches authors.

For more information, see How do I use the Analyze Author Output function?

The citation overview displays the documents for an author details page and includes the number of times the documents were cited by publication year. You can view, print, or export a list of the citing documents.

Select 'Citation overview' to view the citation overview for an author.

For more information, see How do I create and use a citation overview?

Select 'Export all' to export author document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?

You can save author documents to a list in Scopus.

Select 'Save all to list' to create a new list or add to an existing list.

For more information, see How do I add a document to a list?

You can view author documents, cited by documents, and co-authors in search results format.

1. Select 'View all in search results format' to open a results list.
2. Select the desired criteria to refine the list.

For more information, see How do I work with document search results?

Select 'View [X] References' to view a list of all documents an author has used for their publications. The list includes all document citation identification numbers plus the list of documents within a Scopus document results list.

For more information, see How do I work with author search results?

When viewing the contents of the Documents tab, you can create an email alert to be notified when Scopus publishes new documents by an author.

1. Select 'Set document alert' to access the Set Alert function.
   Note: You can edit the name of the search, target email address(es), the frequency of emails you receive, email format, and select the status (active or inactive) of the alert.
2. Select 'Save'. You will receive a confirmation email.

For more information, see How do I create, edit and delete alerts?

The Author position information is derived from documents published in the last 10 years and assumes that the first author listed on the document is the First author, the last author listed is the Last author, and all other authors are Co-authors. The order of authors after the First author typically indicates the level of contribution, with the second author contributing less than the first, and so on. In some cases, there may be multiple first authors, typically known as co-first authors, who have contributed equally to the work. Currently, Scopus cannot distinguish co-first authors or account for alphabetical author listings in some publications.

Select 'View author position details' to view a flyout containing information about the role of the author among their document output. Conversely, select an individual accordion to view the author position details of each position.

For more information about FWCI, see What is Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)?

You have the option to view an author’s documents, cited by documents, and co-authors in search results format.

1. Select 'View all in search results format' to open a results list.
2. Select the desired criteria to refine the list.

For more information, see How do I work with document search results?

When viewing the Cited by Documents tab, you have the option to create an email alert notifying you when another document cites an author’s work.

1. Select 'Set citation alert'.
2. Enter the name of the alert, email address(es)to which they are sent, and the frequency of the alerts.
3. Select 'Set author citation alert'. You will receive a confirmation email.

For more information, see How do I create a document citation alert?

Select 'Export all' to export an author’s document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?

You can save an author’s documents to a list in Scopus.

Select 'Save all to list' to create a new list or add to an existing list.

For more information, see How do I add a document to a list?

Select 'Export all' to export an author’s document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?