Scopus

Scopus, an Elsevier product, is an abstract and citation database.  Researchers can use Scopus to analyse an author's research output and to find metrics, via their automatically generated Author details page.  Researchers can also export a list of their publications and see the citations for individual publications. 

Available metrics/information

Author

• h-index
• total citations
• number of citing documents
• scholarly output
• Topics the author is publishing in
• scholarly output by subject area, affiliation and country/region
• authorship position
• citing document authors, affiliations and countries/regions
• funding
• co-authors
• Field-Weighted Citation Impact (last 10 years)
• collaboration (last 10 years)
• outputs in top citation percentiles (last 10 years)
• publications in top 25% journals (last 10 years)

Article

• Field-weighted Citation Impact for individual documents
• citation percentiles for individual documents
• citations
• altmetrics such as media attention

Journal

• CiteScore Percentile and Quartile
• Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)
• Source-Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Self-help resources

Scopus Tutorials

• Search for an author and view their profile - learn how to find your author profile in Scopus
• Understand how author profiles work - gain a better understanding of how your author profile is created and managed in Scopus
• How to make corrections to your author profile - learn how to manage your profile, including adding or removing publications
• How to assess an author's impact - find total citations, number of citing documents, h-index, number of publications indexed in Scopus, co-authors, Topics and how to use the' Analyse author output functionality'
• How to view document metrics in Scopus - learn how to find metrics such as citations, Field-Weighted Citation Impact, views and citation percentiles for an individual document
• Overview of journal metrics - gain an understanding of the journal metrics available in Scopus
• How to view journal metrics for a title in Scopus - learn how to find journal metrics in Scopus
• How to compare sources - follow the steps to compare sources in Scopus
• How to create citation overviews - follow the process for how to create citation overviews in Scopus

Other Scopus resources

• What can I do on an Author details page - take a step-by-step through an Author details page to find metrics such as the h-index, citations and output
• Scopus Quick Reference Guide - a guide to what you can find in Scopus, and where

QUT Library resources

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For more information on how to use Scopus, contact your Liaison Librarian.