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Scopus AI: Trusted content. Informed by responsible AI.

Scopus AI is an intuitive and intelligent search tool informed by generative AI (GenAI) that enhances understanding and enriches insights with unprecedented speed and clarity. Built in close collaboration with the academic community, this subscription-based solution serves as an expert guide through the vast expanse of human knowledge in Scopus, the world's largest multidisciplinary and trusted abstract and citation database.

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Introducing Copilot: a new feature for Scopus AI to handle specific and complex queries

As we continue to refine and update Scopus AI, we’re excited to announce a new feature called Copilot! Copilot uses both keyword and vector search tools to provide more specific responses to longer and highly complex queries. Copilot also corrects spelling mistakes, translates non-English queries into English, and expands the number of search results Scopus AI provides.

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Accelerate research without compromising the thrill of discovery

The Scopus AI team leverages innovations like Copilot, the Vector Calculation Service and RAG Fusion to provide precise, reliable answers. Start your research journey with these groundbreaking features:

  • Optimized queries with Copilot, enhancing relevancy and specificity.

  • Multilingual support, breaking down barriers in international collaborations.

  • Concept maps to visualize key topics and relationships.

  • Foundational documents, which identifies seminal papers.

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Save time with reliable and digestible research summarization

Type a query into Scopus AI in the words, format and language of your choice. Scopus AI then gets to work, synthesizing abstracts from relevant documents to generate a Topic Summary and an Expanded Summary, enhanced by our patent-pending RAG Fusion technology.

Scopus AI always references its sources and indicates its confidence level in the relevancy of the response. Our Copilot search tool provides a transparency layer that explains exactly how the tool breaks down and optimizes your query.

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Build and deepen new knowledge with unique features

Whether you are new to an area or just want to learn more, it can be challenging to know what questions to ask and how to phrase them. Scopus AI suggests 'Go deeper' questions that help you drill down and broaden your understanding of the field.  

And to help you identify influential research on your chosen topic, Scopus AI mines the full Scopus database to create a list of Foundational documents – these are the high-impact papers most commonly cited by the papers used in the summaries. 

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Open new avenues of exploration with Concept maps

Scopus AI uses keywords from research abstracts to generate an interactive Concept map for each query. This helps you get a bird's-eye view of the topic space and a more complete picture of your theme and its relationship with other research areas — even those outside your comfort zone.

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Support collaboration with options for discovering experts

The Topic experts feature draws on the 19.6+ million author profiles in Scopus to highlight the top researchers linked to your query and generate a summary of their work and contributions.

And because transparency is one of our key GenAI development principles, we explain why each individual was selected.

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"The Scopus AI interface is intuitive and easy to use, it allows the researcher to obtain an overview of a problem, as well as identify authors and approaches, in a more agile search session than conventional search.

It is a valuable tool for literature reviews, construction of theoretical frameworks and verification of relationships between variables, among other applications that are actually impossible to delimit."

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Elisenda Aguilera

EA

Elisenda Aguilera

Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain

The Scopus AI difference

Developed responsibly

Scopus AI is developed in line with Elsevier's Five Responsible AI Principles. For example:  

  • Robust data privacy: All user inputs are treated in line with our Privacy Policy. We also adhere to European GDPR. 

  • LLM-specific data privacy: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, hosted on Microsoft Azure, is among the large language models (LLMs) we use. We have an agreement that no user queries will be stored or used to train or improve ChatGPT. 

  • Content and data governance: Scopus content selection is subject to rigorous checks by an independent board of experts. 

Elsevier's Five Responsible AI Principles

Technology with clear scope and instructions

The technology that underpins Scopus AI is maintained for:

  • Transparency: Only trusted Scopus content is used in Scopus AI responses and any claims or assumptions are backed up by references. Scopus AI also indicates how confident it is that its response matches your query. And if it can’t find relevant results, it tells you. 

  • Reliability: Scopus AI features our patent-pending RAG Fusion technology and our Copilot tool. Together, these improve the quality of both the search and responses. The LLM is also guided by strict prompt engineering guardrails. 

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Working in partnership with the community to develop & enhance Scopus AI

Scopus AI was developed in response to a need identified by 60% of Scopus users: to learn about new topics more effectively. 

Thousands of researchers, librarians, and academic leaders helped shape its design, including features like the Concept map, Foundational documents, and Expanded summary. Their feedback also inspired the patent-pending RAG Fusion technology.

We continue to engage with the research community daily via a variety of channels; for example, Scopus subscribers are selected at random to test the tool. The development team closely tracks this feedback and moves quickly in response, often within hours.

Learn how Scopus AI can work for your institution

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Frequently asked questions

Explore commonly asked questions by the community.

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“…with Scopus AI, you can use more informal language when searching, and you get pretty much the same results as you do with the technical terms. I think that’s one of the great benefits of using the tool.”

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Bruno Augusto

BA

Bruno Augusto

PhD student at University of Aveiro, Portugal

Featured articles and resources

Browse these recently published articles and resources to learn more about Scopus AI and the technology that powers it.

“I’ve been working with Scopus AI for a couple of months, and it’s been great. I’d previously used ChatGPT, but it’s not a tool for scientific literature review. When I heard there was something new based on Scopus — which is the database I trust most when I’m doing a literature review — I started using it a lot.” 

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Dr. Engie El Sawaf

DEES

Dr Engie El Sawaf

Pharmacology Lecturer Assistant at Future University, Egypt

Webinars

Throughout 2024, we hosted several Scopus AI webinars, covering various topics and offering live demonstrations of Scopus AI. All recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience.

On-demand webinars

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