1. Hatim El Faiz Account Development Manager Middle East & Africa
January 16, 2019
Hatim El Faiz
Account Development Manager
Middle East & Africa
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2. A quick step-by-step guide
January 16, 2019
Scopus for Authors
A quick step-by-step guide

3. 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

4. 1. How to use Scopus in your research

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

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

10. Author Search & Author Identifier
Author’s details

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

12. 2. How to get a personal citation overview

13. Author Search homepage

14. Results page
Select authors

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

16. 3.How to find authors in a field

17. 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

18. Most published authors in field
Find authors
Most published authors in field

19. Find authors

20. 4. How to evaluate your journal’s performance

21. Source Browse
Enter journal name

22. Evaluate journal performance

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

24. Evaluate journal performance
Citation counts

25. 4.a. Compare journal performance to competitive journal

26. Compare journal performance - EU
Enter journal name

27. Compare journal performance - EU

28. Compare journal performance - EU

29. Compare journal performance - EU
154 citations for 2006 issues

30. Compare journal performance - Urology
Enter journal name

31. Compare journal performance - Urology

32. Compare journal performance - Urology

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

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

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

36. Top 5 highest-cited articles
Select the journal title

37. Top 5 highest-cited articles

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

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

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

41. Top 10 most-published authors
Select the journal title

42. Top 10 most-published authors

43. Top 10 most-published authors

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

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

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

47. Thank you for your attention Questions?