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Scopus Training Module 4: Institutional Insights

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, we explain how to look for affiliations in Scopus.

You will learn:

  • How affiliation profiles work in Scopus
  • How to search for an affiliation by name
  • How to search for affiliations by topic

Tutorial: How affiliation profiles work in Scopus

In this video tutorial, we look at how the Scopus algorithm works and explain the hierarchy system for institutions and affiliations.

Note: For the best viewing experience, select the double arrows at the bottom right of the player to view the video at full screen. You can also download a written transcript (Links to an external site.) of the video tutorial.

Tutorial: Search for an affiliation by name

In this video tutorial, you will run an affiliation search to find articles from the University of Toronto. (Please note this video tutorial was recently updated and we are still waiting for the captions to be translated into Chinese and Russian.)

Note: For the best viewing experience, select the double arrows at the bottom right of the player to view the video at full screen. You can also download a written transcript (Links to an external site.) of the video tutorial.

 

Using the affiliation search, search for an institution of your choice.  

  • Select the affiliation to view the Affiliation details page

Tutorial: Search for affiliations by topic

In this video tutorial, you are researching the beneficial effects of antioxidants on the human body and you want to identify the affiliations that have previously published on the topic. 

Note: For the best viewing experience, select the double arrows at the bottom right of the player to view the video at full screen. You can also download a written transcript (Links to an external site.) of the video tutorial.

Run a loose or exact-phrase search on a topic of your choice. On the results page, move to the lefthand Refine results column and scroll down to locate the Affiliation section. Note the affiliation with the highest number of documents. To view a list of the documents, select the number next to the affiliation.