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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

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Scopus for Authors features

Scopus supports editors and reviewers with:

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  • Help students understand the scholarly conversation of a topic through reference lists and cited articles

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Scopus for Librarian features

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

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Customer Stories

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

Bruce Abbott, health librarian at UC Davis Health, discusses his go-to database for systematic reviews. Learn how Scopus delivers interdisciplinary and inclusive coverage(opens in new tab/window).

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University of California, Irvine

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