Directions to help perform an author cited reference search in Scopus. This is my (Linda Galloway's) preferred method.

1. Cited Reference Search
in
Linda Galloway Syracuse University Library May 2014
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed
literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Scopus’ 50 million records consist of:
• 29 million records, including references, going back to 1995 (84%
include abstracts)
• 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers
• 5.5 million conference papers
• “Articles-in-Press” from more than 3,850 journals and
publishers
• 21 million pre-1996 records going back as far as 1823
• Scopus also cross-searches 25.2 million patents from five patent
offices

2. Disambiguation….
Valid data = Valid metrics
Accurate attribution of research products is the
most important first step in a citation analyses.
• Scholarly authors are assigned many identifiers
such as Scopus Author ID, Web of Science
Researcher ID, institutional ID’s
• Scholars should register for an ORCID - Open
Researcher Identifier – this ID is supported by
many publishers & platforms.
• Scholars can claim and make public their Google
Scholar profile
Linda Galloway

3. Choose ‘Author Search’ tab
Enter author’s name in in
correct format. In most
cases, do not select ‘exact
matches’.

4. Scopus groups authors to
aid in disambiguation. In
this example, Dr. Parks
has one author profile
(as it should be).

5. Select author(s) and
choose
‘Show Documents’

6. Select only those articles
attributable to author

7. View Citation
Overview

8. Change date range, if
desired
H index

9. Can print or export
the data

10. More than one author profile
• Occasionally an author will have more than
one profile
• What to do??
– Authors should use an ORCID to uniquely identify
their works.
– Authors (or librarians) can request to merge
author profiles in Scopus – be very careful about
correct attribution of works!

11. Scopus groups authors
to aid in
disambiguation. In this
example, all grouped
authors are the same
person.
Multiple Author Profiles
In this case, an author has more than one Scopus profile…

12. To correct profile errors…
Dr. Mao should use
the ‘Request to
merge authors ’ link
to merge her
profiles. At this
point, she has three
Author ID’s in
Scopus.

13. Questions??
• Linda Galloway, galloway@syr.edu
• Scopus Citation Overview help:
http://help.scopus.com
Linda Galloway Syracuse University Library May 2014