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Research Impact at Purdue

A research guide on the ways to best practices for managing your online academic identity

Introduction to Scopus

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Scopus by Elsevier is an interdisciplinary citation database, established in 2004 It has some powerful tools for researchers, students, and administrators to discover research, trends, and insights. It indexes over 2.4 billion citations, 94 million records, 29,000 titles, and 330,000 books. These titles are all searchable via the search and advanced search engines in Scopus.

Scopus Profiles

Scopus allows researchers to see a number of different unique metrics, statistics, and information sets for researchers, students, and administrators. Scopus builds what it calls "researcher profiles" algorithmically. These profiles contain all of the information you will be able to gleam from the database about yourself. If you think there is an error such as your publications not showing up, click "edit profile" in the top right of the record.

 

 

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Uses of Scopus

Other uses of Scopus

  • Search for articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, and many other types of research output
  • Discover patents
  • Find author information, such as H-index, and lists of publications
  • Perform citation searches on known articles
  • Identify promising journals in which to publish
  • Match an organization with its research output
  • Locate potential collaborators or subject experts
  • Manage your impact with your ORCID ID
  • Set Citation Alerts

Need Extra Help?

Still need extra information? Try checking out our Citations Databases research guide on the library website. Need help merging multiple profiles? Check out this page on our helpful research guide via the Library website.