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Scopus

About Scopus

Scopus allows you to search for citation counts and analyse the citation impact of authors and articles. 

Subject coverage: chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering, life and health sciences, social science, psychology and economics, biological, agricultural and environmental sciences and general sciences. Refer to the Scopus Content Coverage Guide for more information. 

Strengths:

  • Broad overall subject coverage
  • Very strong coverage of science and technology journals
  • Useful tools for author identification

Weaknesses:

  • Only guaranteed citation analysis coverage spanning back to 1996
  • Limited coverage of arts, humanities and social sciences journals

How to find citation metrics

Citation counts and author h-indexes are displayed on Scopus author profiles. 

To learn how to search for an author profile on Scopus please see the Scopus page

         Search for an author and view their profile

and scroll down the page for a video of the steps required to search for your name in Scopus. Searching for an author is in the first 55 seconds of the video, and the search results screen will show whether you have more than one Scopus author profile.

 

For more information on Scopus citation metrics please see the video How to assess an author's impact.