Library Tutorials

Scopus is a powerful database with tools that can do a lot more than basic literature searches. The links below will take you to short tutorial videos and text created by Scopus.

Analyze your search results:

• View all of the documents cited by your results, or all of the documents which cite your results
• View and download charts that break down the results by subject area, document type, year of publication, and more
• Discover which authors have written the most documents in the results by looking at Author Name in the left-hand filters

Learn more about every article:

• View article metrics including citation count, FWCI, and PlumX altmetrics
• Discover which institutions funded the research by looking for Funding Details on the article's page

Use Scopus Sources, a collection of journal data:

• Find a list of journals in a specific subject area
• View journal metrics including CiteScore, SNIP, and SJR
• Compare journals

Find author information:

• View all the documents an author has written
• View the author’s h-index, a measure of scholarly impact
• Discover which authors they work with most often
• View and download charts that break down the author’s output by subject area, document type, year of publication, and more
• Make corrections to your own author profile (For more information on this, check out our Researcher Profile Audit Service guide!)

Stay informed:

• Save searches and set alerts for when documents matching the search criteria are added to Scopus
• Set alerts for when new documents by your favorite authors are added to Scopus

When you have run a search, you can use the filters on the left-hand side to narrow down the results. These filters include open access, year, document type, source type, language, and more.

How to Filter by Date

Go to the Year filter. The number to the right of each year tells you how many documents were published in that year. Click "View all" to see the entire date range. Select one or more years and then select either "Limit" or "Exclude". For example, if I select 2022 and 2021 and select "Limit," I will now only see the 64 results published in those years. If I select 2022 and 2021 and select "Exclude," I will now see all of the results except the 64 published in those years.

See which authors wrote the most documents

Go to the Author Name filter. The number to the right of each author tells you how many documents within the results were written or co-written by that author. The authors are listed in order of most documents written. In the example here, you can see that Moss-Morris, R. wrote the most documents within the results, 19. Select one or more authors to limit the results to their work or to exclude their work from the results.