Citation and Journal Metrics: Scopus

• Citation data used for ERA 2012
• Automatically creates and updates your profile and publications
• Indexes over 19000 journals
• Includes articles 'in press'
• Broader coverage than Web of Science
• Your profile and h-index is publicly viewable
• High full text content via ScienceDirect

The limitations of Scopus include:

• Citation counts from 1996 onwards (from 1983 for Web of Science/ResearcherID)
• Cannot edit profile, any changes must be reported to Scopus
• Cannot add publications if not indexed in Scopus
• Scopus may create multiple author profiles, may mismatch documents

Connect to Scopus

• Go to the Author search tab, and enter your Last Name and Initials or First Name
• Add your current or former Affiliation to help reduce the number of potential matches
• Select the main profile by clicking on the author name
• Your personal profile, link to documents, h-index and affiliations will display
• To check for other profiles, go to Find potential author matches
• Select any of your profiles and click View grouped with author
• The screen will refresh with your consolidated metrics on the right hand side
• You can now view your total number of documents, h index, author evaluator and citation overview

If you have multiple profiles, at the Grouped authors section, select Request to merge with author and follow the steps.

Adding a Scopus profile link to your staff home page - email your Academic Library Services team so they an arrange for the link to be added.

View this short 4 minute tutorial on Author searching in Scopus. This tutorial shows you how to retrieve and track an author's publications, as well as documents written by people affiliated with a particular institution or research centre.