Scopus

The following sections deal with more advanced features of searching in Scopus.  They are more relevant for those working in doctoral, post-doctoral or other academic research.

Scopus provides the ability to search the list of cited references in articles, books, etc. If the reference which you are starting with is very relevant to your research, other related publications have probably cited references which are also relevant to your research. Cited reference searching is a useful extension to your standard keyword search.

When you search by authors, you can search by last and/or first name.

For Researchers: you also have the option to search by ORCID ID.

When you search by affiliation, just type the affiliation's name. The search will begin to auto-populate.

Use this feature to gain further insights into any list of document results.

Analyze search results can be activated from the wording above the set of results, once you have performed a document search in Scopus.

On the document details page, you can filter by Open Access types, including:

• Gold open: Documents that are in journals which only publish open access
• Hybrid Gold: Documents that are in journals which provide authors the choice of publishing open access
• Bronze: Published version of record or manuscript accepted for publication; the publisher has chosen to provide temporary or permanent free access
• Green: Published version or manuscript accepted for publication, available at repository

Scopus also features non-Scopus references, called ‘secondary documents’, which are not indexed in our database for three possible reasons:

• They are retrieved from the references or citations of the documents that are covered by Scopus
• Scopus is unable to match documents with certainty due to incomplete or incorrect data
• There is missing content

To view these non-Scopus references, click ‘View secondary documents’ above your search results.