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Scopus is designed to serve the information needs of researchers, educators, students, librarians and administrators across the higher education community. Scopus provides precise entry points to authoritative peer-reviewed literature and authors in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
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Scopus supports researchers and authors with:
Searching for relevant topics/articles during the literature review phase
Deciding where to publish — analyze the top journals and authors in your discipline
Finding information to support your grant proposal or other funding applications
Exploring how many citations an article or author has received, and identifying potential collaborators
Discovering who is citing you
Using APIs to showcase citation counts for your work
Scopus supports editors and reviewers with:
Identifying and contacting potential new editorial board members
Evaluating an author's previously published work
Finding and evaluating referees and authors to review papers or contribute to special thematic issues
Quickly reviewing coverage of other journals
Monitoring journal trends; for example, comparing the current scope of a journal with citation patterns to see if a shift has occurred
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Scopus supports educators and students with:
Finding resources to complement course materials, such as locating new articles or images to enhance lectures and engage students' interest
Identifying articles to inform the literature review process and support the development of research papers and theses
Uncover literature in adjacent disciplines to foster interdisciplinary exploration
Help students understand the scholarly conversation of a topic through reference lists and cited articles
Learn more about how Scopus can empower educators and students
Scopus supports librarians with:
Providing users with a global, comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed publications
Linking quickly and accurately to full-text articles to optimize the research and learning experience
Increasing the visibility of and access to other library resources
Informing collection management decisions through analysis of highly-cited articles and journals
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Scopus supports research administrators with:
Assessing the scientific output of individual researchers or of your institution as a whole
Allocating financial resources to researchers or departments by tracking impact
Checking a researcher or a tenure candidate's production, citations and h-index, and comparing them to others in the same subject area
Learn more about our Research Analytics & Evaluation solutions
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A.T. Still University of Health Sciences
Hal Bright, Library Director at ATSU, explains how Scopus and Digital Commons support the university's research strategy, including reputation building and open access.
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University of Nebraska Medical Center
UNMC’s librarians encourage students and researchers to leverage Scopus at every stage of their career.
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University of California, Davis Health Care
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University of California, Irvine
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