Scopus

Documents include journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, articles in press and data papers.

Follow the steps below to learn how to perform a basic document search:

• Enter your search terms into the Search documents box [1]
  • By default, Scopus will search in the Article title, Abstract and Keywords of documents
• You can specify in which fields to search using the drop-down menu [2]
• Use the +Add search field [3] option to add additional fields 
• Each new search field is combined using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT [4]
• Select Add date range [5] to either select a publication date range or to specify an "added to Scopus" date range
• To see a complete list of advanced field codes, select Advanced document search [6]
• Your Search History is displayed with the option to Set Alert [7] to notify you by email of new search results in Scopus that match that search
• Select More [8] to save an important query or to delete a query
• To combine queries from your history, choose two or more searches and select Combine queries [9]

Editing your search, saving your search and setting alerts

• Saving your search and setting up alerts [1]
• Quickly review or edit your search from the top of the page [2]
• By default, the search results are sorted by date. Use the ‘Sort by’ drop-down menu to sort in a different order. [3]

• Refine your results [4] From the left-hand menu, you can:

  • Search within your results
  • Use filters to limit or exclude results from your search, including, but not limited to:
    • Author name
    • Open Access type (learn more about the Open Access filter below)
    • Year
    • Subject area
    • Publication stage
    • Keyword
    • Affiliation
    • Funding sponsor
    • Open access
      • All open access
      • Gold: Documents that are in journals that only publish open access
      • Hybrid Gold: Documents that are in journals that 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 the repository
• Export [5] search results
• Analyze results [6]

Registered users can sign in to:

• Save searches
• Set up alerts to be notified when new documents are added to Scopus that match this search