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Scopus Training Module 1: Topical Search, Alerts and Analysis
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About Scopus
Scopus is a huge multidisciplinary database with citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal literature, trade journals, books, patent records, and conference publications. It provides tools for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing search results.
Over 24,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide
Over 3,487 Active Gold Open Access journals indexed
Contains >75 million records, with the most thorough coverage from 1996 forward
Includes over 6.4 million conference papers from proceedings and journals
Provides 100% Medline coverage (Medline comprises the majority of the content in PubMed.)
Most EMBASE records
Links to Rush licensed full text
Updated daily
Coverage
Titles on Scopus are classified under four broad clusters, which are further divided into 27 major subject areas and 300+ minor subject areas.
Find articles, conference proceedings, trade publications and more
Track citations over time
Set Citation Alerts
View h-index for specific authors
Assess trends in research results
Analyze journal using SNIP, SJR, and Elsevier's Journal Analyzer
Identify and match an organization with its research output
Identify collaborators or subject experts
Manage your impact with your ORCID ID
Bulk retrieval in PDF format
Publishers
Scopus is the world’s most curated, authoritative database of peer-reviewed research literature with: content is curated from more than 5,000 publishers