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The Organization profile page provides information about organizations that have more than one document matched to them in Scopus. From the Organization details page you can view the documents from the...

What can I do on an Organization profile page?

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Some authors have similar names, or their names can appear differently in various publications. The Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes among similar names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique...

What is the Scopus Author Identifier?

You can search in Scopus by document, author, or organization:Searching for a documentScopus allows you to search for publications based on search terms relating to specific parts of a document (e.g.,...

How do I search in Scopus?

Use the Author Feedback Wizard to request changes or updates to the information on the Scopus Author details page:


	Set a preferred name for an author
	Update the affiliation of an author
	Add and remove...

How do I use the Author Feedback Wizard?


	What is a Scopus Author Profile?
	
	Each Scopus Author Profile is a unique record of that researcher’s publication activity. The details come from peer-reviewed articles and other publications that are...

Scopus Author Profile FAQs

Scopus tutorials provide a visual and audio tour of Scopus and its functions. 

Searching for documents


	
		
			
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			How to save searches and set alerts...

Scopus tutorials

An advanced search allows you to enter complex search queries using field codes, boolean and proximity operators to narrow the scope of your search. Operators ~ boolean and proximity operatorsUse boolean...

How can I best use the Advanced search?

CiteScore is a simple way of measuring the citation impact of sources, such as journals.

For detailed information about CiteScore metrics, see CiteScore Journal Metric - FAQs.


	What is the CiteScore...

What is CiteScore?

If a document is not available in Scopus but fulfills the criteria of the Scopus coverage policy, you can request that the document be added to the database using the Scopus web form.

Note: If an indexed...

How do I request to add a missing document?

How to save searches and set alerts tutorial

The Scopus Sources page allows you to browse a list of all journals, book series, trade publications, and conference proceedings available on Scopus or that are accessed from other external web sites using...

How do I use the Scopus Sources feature?

Scopus offers AI-enabled features that help users search, explore, and understand research content more efficiently. This page explains Scopus AI, AI Query Builder, and Semantic Search, including how each...

Scopus AI-Enabled Features (Scopus AI, Semantic Search, AI Query Builder) 

You can export results lists, documents, and documents references to a file, another platform, or a reference management tool such as Mendeley or RefWorks.To export documents (from a document search results...

How do I export documents from Scopus?

Use the Scopus Institution Profile Wizard (IPW) to request changes to your institution profile:


	Organize the department hierarchy
	Update organization details, preferred name, and other metadata
	Accurately...

How do I use the Institution Profile Wizard?

Scopus uses a hybrid workflow to download PDF versions of documents. First, Scopus checks whether full-text access can be verified and downloaded automatically through your Elsevier subscription. If Scopus...

How do I download Full-Text (PDFs) from Scopus

Boolean-type search is a powerful and precise tool that allows you to tailor your search criteria to obtain specific results. You can use Boolean search through both Basic Document Search and Advanced...

Search Tips: What makes a Scopus search complex?

The Author details page provides information about author research areas, publishing and citation information, name variants, the author Scopus identifier number, ORCID (if available), and other information...

What can I do on an Author details page?

The Source details page provides basic source information and journal metric scores for Scopus journals, book series, conference proceedings, and trade publications.


	Source publication information

	
	Title,...

What can I do on a Source details page?

How to conduct a basic search tutorial

A document search returns a list of documents that provides options for refining, analyzing, and saving results.Select an area of the document search results page to see the relevant section or browse...

How do I work with document search results?

CiteScore metrics from Scopus are comprehensive, transparent, current, and free metrics for serial titles in Scopus.
  


	
	1 About CiteScore and its Derivative Metrics

	CiteScore is a simple and robust...

CiteScore Journal Metric - FAQs

You can locate Open Access (OA) journals and/or articles by conducting a Document search, Advanced search, or using the Scopus Sources feature. Any search result providing documents or sources that are...

How do I find Open Access documents and journals in Scopus?

You can create, save, and use a list from document search results; from document, author, or affiliation details; or from a source information page. You can open a saved list from the Scopus Lists page...

How do I use Scopus Lists?

You can request a correction to a document using the Scopus web form on the Scopus Support Center. Using the web form, you can request changes to a document, including:AbstractArticle NumberDigital Object...

How do I request corrections to a document?

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research by assigning a unique identifier to each author.When an...

How do I import Author details to ORCID?

How to make corrections to your author profile tutorial

A Topic is a collection of documents with a common intellectual interest in SciVal that represent fields of research.Topics are multidisciplinary and researchers work in various research areas, contributing...

What are Topics?

Search for an author and view their profile tutorial

When you export documents from Scopus, you can choose which metadata fields you want to export. Available Metadata fields differ depending on the export file type selected.Bulk Document ExportThe new bulk...

What fields are used when exporting documents from Scopus?

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...

How do I create a Citation overview?

The Document details page allows you to view, and export the document including full text download, saving to a list, and setting alerts. The Document details also provides author details (and Corresponding...

What can I do on a Document details page?

Select 'Compare sources' to access the Compare sources tool from the Scopus toolbar on the Scopus Sources tab, Scopus Source details page, or from Advanced search page.

The Compare sources tool allows...

How do I compare sources?

Once you have run a search, you have various options to refine, and filter your results.Refine your resultsUsing the Refine pane, you can limit your results list to certain categories of documents by selecting...

How do I filter and refine my search results?

Serial titles are classified using the ASJC (All Science Journal Classification) scheme. This is done by in-house experts at the moment the serial title is set up for Scopus coverage; the classification...

What are Scopus subject area categories and ASJC codes?

You can create and save a list from document search results: from document, author, or affiliation details, or from a source information page.

You can add a single document or additional documents to...

How do I add a document to a list?

Scopus provides an analysis of your search results and shows you the number of documents in your search results broken down (on separate tabs) by:

Year


 

The 'Year' tab shows the total number of documents...

How do I use the Analyze search results function?

You can setup and manage alerts in Scopus to keep track of developments in the research world.Note:You must be signed in to create an alertThere is no limit of alerts you can createDo you need help updating...

How do I create and manage my Alerts?

The Affiliation Identifier distinguishes between affiliations by assigning each institution with publications in Scopus a unique number and grouping together the documents affiliated with that organization.

This...

What is the Scopus Affiliation Identifier?

Author search also has the option to search based on an Open Researcher and Contributor ID, or an ORCID. An ORCID is a 16-digit number and is used by editors, funding agencies, publishers, and institutions...

How do I search for authors using ORCID?

Document metrics allow you to evaluate both citation impact and levels of community engagement of an article through a combination of Scopus metrics and PlumX Metrics.


To view document metrics, from...

How are document metrics used in Scopus?

Running an author search produces a results page with various options for interaction. Select an area of the document search results to see the relevant section or browse each topic.


	
		
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
	





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How do I work with author search results?

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Scopus Release Notes 2026

In Scopus, it is possible to sort a list of documents by a date, author, source title, citedness, or by "relevance".

By default, the results are sorted on date, with the most recently published first.

"Relevance"...

What does "Relevance" mean in Scopus?

How to use advanced search tutorial

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are specific research areas that are helping to solve real-world problems. They are part of a plan to end poverty, protect the planet, and improve...

What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

You can view and share an author’s output in terms of their publications, h-index, citations and co-authors.

Analyze author output is only one way to review an author's performance. You may also want...

Using the Analyze Author Output function

Alerts can be configured to send email notices when a search renders a new results set, when a document of an author is cited in Scopus, or when a document is cited in Scopus.

There is no limit to the...

How are Alerts used in Scopus?

A preprint is a version of a scholarly paper that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed journal and acts as an early indication of research.

Preprints reside on preprint servers, which cover a set of...

What are preprints?

A standard link resolver uses text and an accompanying image to represent a link external to ScienceDirect or Scopus. Account and consortium administrators can edit linking settings.

Available link resolvers

A...

How do I configure a link resolver within my account using the Admin Tool?

The h-graph is one way of displaying and comparing the productivity and impact of published work of scholars. The h-index is the method used which was developed by J. E. Hirsch.

The h-index is based on...

How can I use an h-graph?


Once you have run an affiliation search, you will see a results page with various options for interacting with it.

How

Click on a relevant area of the document search results below to see the relevant...

How do I work with affiliation search results?

Subscribers to both Scopus and Engineering Village can view an Engineering Village version of the matching Compendex document. The Engineering Village version contains linked, controlled, and uncontrolled...

How do I view a document in Engineering Village?

You can see below information about how institution profiles work and what you can expect when requesting changes.

Understanding institution profiles


	How are institution profiles created?

	
	Scopus...

About the Institution Profile Wizard

How to download and export your search results tutorial

PLEASE NOTE: The Grouped Authors feature was replaced with the Authors Lists feature.

Creating a list of potential authors helps you gather a complete list of documents for an author and is done from an...

How do I create a group of authors?

How to analyze your search results tutorial

Your saved lists can be modified or exported any time you are signed in to Scopus by accessing the Lists function. You can rename, edit, delete, add to, or export your saved lists.Renaming a saved listSelect...

How do I manage my saved lists?

2025 Scopus Product Release Notes.Blue November Releases 2025November 20, 2025: Released an updated version of Similar Documents recommendations on the Document Details pageSimilar documents shows relevant,...

Scopus Release Notes 2025

What are awarded grants?

You can export Scopus publications to a normalized curriculum vitae (CVN) format that was created by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). The Export to FECYT CVN function is only...

How do I export to FECYT CVN (for Spanish institutions only)?

For a quick overview of all Scopus features and where to find them, view our Scopus Quick Reference Guide.


Scopus Quick Reference Guide

Researcher Discovery allows you to conduct a keyword search to quickly find researchers contributing to a specific field. The keywords are matched against title, abstract, and journal name of articles...

Researcher Discovery FAQs

Scopus uses the following RIS format mapping when using the export results feature to exchange citation information:


	
		
			
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			Labels...

What RIS format mapping does Scopus use when exporting results when exchanging citation information?

Use the Institution Profile Wizard (IPW) to request changes or updates to the information on the Scopus Organization profile page:


	Edit and manage the preferred and alternative name, addresses, and...

How do I edit profiles with the new IPW?

Saving searches is useful for revisiting and keeping track of your research on Scopus. You can save a search from any document results list or from within your current search history.Do you need help updating...

How do I manage my Saved searches?

The requirements for the best performance include using the optimal browser with up-to-date browser versions that are properly configured.

Recommended browsers:


	Google Chrome (last 3 versions)
	Mozilla...

What are the technical requirements for Scopus?

Use My Scopus to manage your account’s saved features, such as Saved searches, Alerts, Saved lists, and Grouped authors.

How

My Scopus may be accessed from the Scopus menu at the top right corner of...

What can I do through My Scopus?

The 'Co-Author' tab lists authors that have written a document with a specific author, and also lists the number of documents written by co-authors. The co-author list contains:


	The total number of...

How do I view information about an author's co-authors?

Here are some common issues you may encounter. Click on a topic below to see how to troubleshoot your alert emails.


	I did not receive my alert

	
	There are several reasons you did not receive an alert:

	
		The...

Common issues with alerts

From a Document details page, you can view Author keywords and Indexed keywords:


	Author keywords are chosen by the author to best reflect the content of the document.
	Indexed keywords are chosen by...

How do Author keywords and Indexed keywords work?

How to view CiteScore metrics tutorial

Google Scholar is a search engine and hence has a much wider coverage than Scopus, including theses and unpublished materials, etc. These are content types that are not indexed on Scopus and therefore...

Why is my citation count on Scopus lower than on Google Scholar

Some words are not included in a Scopus search and are ignored when a search query is run. While they may add clarity to text, they are ignored by Scopus and make a search more efficient.

Examples of...

What words are not used in a Scopus search?

Scopus provides a Similar documents function whenever you are viewing a list of document results, or are viewing a document details page. Similar documents may be sought from the following Scopus pages:Document...

How do I find similar documents in Scopus?

Search for an affiliation by name tutorial

How affiliation profiles work in Scopus tutorial

Sometimes Scopus fails to export documents to SciVal. This happens for one of two reasons:The SciVal pop-up has been blocked by Scopus.The Single Sign On feature that automatically logs in users of Scopus...

What do I do when Scopus fails to export documents to SciVal?

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. You can create a Mendeley account...

How is Mendeley used in Scopus?

Scopus provides two (2) types of search, i.e. Basic Search and Advanced Search. The following describes the main differences between the two.Basic SearchBasic Search guides user with drop-down menu to...

How is the Basic Search different from the Advanced Search?

Overview of journal metrics tutorial

How to compare sources tutorial

How to create citation overviews tutorial

To access your institution’s Scopus subscription from anywhere, you must activate your registration ID.

How

Registration ID activation involves a few simple steps:

Please note:


	These entry fields...

How do I register for a remote access account using a Registration ID and Passcode?

How to assess an author's impact tutorial

How to browse sources tutorial

Yes. You can request both changes to your Scopus author profile and a submission to ORCID with the changes in a single user session.On the Author profile pageSelect 'Edit profile'.Select 'Connect to ORCID'...

Can I make changes to my Scopus author profile and submit it to ORCID at the same time?

How to search for authors by topical area tutorial

Search for affiliations by topic tutorial

Saving searches is useful for revisiting and keeping track of your research on Scopus. You can save a search from any document results list or from within your current search history.

Saved searches is...

How do I use Saved searches on the homepage?

Your publications are not automatically sent to ORCID, even if you have imported Author details to ORCID in the past.To import your Author details to ORCID for the first time, follow these instructions.If...

Are my publications automatically sent to ORCID?

How to view journal metrics for a title in Scopus tutorial

View an institution's research output tutorial

How to view document metrics in Scopus tutorial

You can modify your personal details and settings using My Elsevier from your account profile manager.


	Sign in to Scopus.
	From any Scopus page, select your initials at the top right of the page to...

How do I modify my personal details and preferences?

How to keep track of an author tutorial

Documents in Scopus can display Reaxys substance information stored in the Reaxys chemistry database. Only documents that are indexed in both Scopus and Reaxys display Reaxys substance information on the...

How do I use Reaxys with Scopus?

We send your current name, current affiliation, documents and preprints available on Scopus to ORCID.

What information about my author profile does Scopus send to ORCID?

Yes. You can visit your user dashboard to track all change requests. To access your user dashboard, click on the profile icon at the top right corner of the screen and select 'Requests (Dashboard)'. 

Can I track my request to send my publications to ORCID?

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