Hatim El Faiz Account Development Manager Middle East & Africa January 16, 2019 Hatim El Faiz Account Development Manager Middle East & Africa Tel: +31 204853232 Email: h.faiz@elsevier.com

A quick step-by-step guide January 16, 2019 Scopus for Authors A quick step-by-step guide

How can Scopus help you? How to use Scopus in your research How to get a personal citation overview How to find Authors How to evaluate your journal’s performance Compare journal performance to competitive journal How to find the top 5 highest-cited articles of a journal How to find the top 10 most-published authors in a journal How to search for the top 3 journals that cite your journal the most

1. How to use Scopus in your research

Homepage www.scopus.com Type in a search term and select from the dropdown menu

Results page Search in peer-reviewed, Web, Patents & Special Sources Edit/save search, set up search alert Refine Results Things to mention: Explain tabular view o        Users usually sort on date but wanted more options Tabular view allows easy scanning and sorting of results Explain that clicking on Cited by allows you to sort results according to # of times article has been cited One click to Full Text Entitled Full Text Checked at Library

Sort by most highly cited View the citing articles Citation counts per article Sort by most highly cited View the citing articles

Links to 3 most recent cited articles Abstracts + references page Explore Journal’s other issues Full text- and library defined links Author Details plus link to all papers written by same author Clicking from the results page on the abstracts + references link takes you to this page. This is the CONTENT in Scopus. From here you can also use the LSI link to the full text. You can also see how many times the article has been cited in Scopus. Links to 3 most recent cited articles

Author Search & Author Identifier Type in an author name and initial or first name

Author Search & Author Identifier Author’s details

Author Search & Author Identifier Documents matched to this author Citation Overview for Tefko Saracevic Cited By count Authors that Tefko Saracevic published with

2. How to get a personal citation overview

Author Search homepage

Results page Select authors

Personal citation overview Exclude/include self citations Adjust year range and sorting order Citation counts per article and per year

3.How to find authors in a field

Enter search terms that are relevant for the article to be reviewed Find authors Enter search terms that are relevant for the article to be reviewed

Most published authors in field Find authors Most published authors in field

Find authors

4. How to evaluate your journal’s performance

Source Browse Enter journal name

Evaluate journal performance

Check how issues have performed Evaluate journal performance Check how issues have performed

Evaluate journal performance Citation counts

4.a. Compare journal performance to competitive journal

Compare journal performance - EU Enter journal name

Compare journal performance - EU

Compare journal performance - EU

Compare journal performance - EU 154 citations for 2006 issues

Compare journal performance - Urology Enter journal name

Compare journal performance - Urology

Compare journal performance - Urology

Compare journal performance - Urology Only 39 citations for 2006 issues in comparison to 154 citations that European Urology has already received

5. How to find the top 5 highest-cited articles of a journal

Top 5 highest-cited articles Select Source Title from the dropdown list

Top 5 highest-cited articles Select the journal title

Top 5 highest-cited articles

Top 5 highest-cited articles Click on Cited By to see the highest cited articles

6. How to find the top 10 most-published authors in a journal

Top 10 most-published authors Select Source Title from the dropdown list

Top 10 most-published authors Select the journal title

Top 10 most-published authors

Top 10 most-published authors

7. How to search for the top 3 journals that cite your journal the most

Top 3 journals that cite Eur. Urology Select the REFSRCTITLE from the scroll menu and use brackets for the journal name

Top 3 journals that cite Eur. Urology Top 3 journals that cite European Urology the most

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