Use the Advanced document search for a complete list of field codes and Boolean operators.
This is useful when the field code you need, such as author ID, is not available on the basic Document Search tab drop-down menu.
To execute an advanced search:
Excluding PubMed Results
In Advanced Search, add "AND NOT INDEX(medline)" at the end of your search query. This will exclude most PubMed results.
Use this feature carefully. Scopus and PubMed retrieve results differently, so it is possible to retrieve records in Scopus that you missed in PubMed.
Search Tips in Scopus
use double quotation marks for a loose phrase
“heart attack” will search for documents where heart and attack appear together
asterisk is a wildcard
“criminal* insan*” finds criminally insane and criminal insanity.
enclose an exact phrase in braces { }
Scopus provides the ability to search the list of cited references in articles, books, etc. If the reference which you are starting with is very relevant to your research, other related publications have probably cited references which are also relevant to your research. Cited reference searching is a useful extension to your standard keyword search.