Scopus User Guide: Author Search

Scopus Author Profiles allow researchers to: 

• Showcase research output 
• Demonstrate impact and collaborations  
• Update personal and departmental websites, CV’s and institutional profiles 

Author Profiles allow potential employers and funding agencies to:  

•  Evaluate your work quickly and easily in one place 
•  Inform hiring and promotion decisions 
•  Decide which researchers or teams of researchers will receive research grants

Author metrics allow users to:

• Analyze and track an individual author’s citation history
• Review an author’s total citation and document counts from the author details page
• Access graphs and charts of document and citation trends

Available author metrics include:

• h-index and h-graph: Rates a scientist's performance based on his or her career publications, as measured by the lifetime number of citations each article receives. The measurement depends on both quantity (number of publications) and quality (number of citations) of an academic's publications. 
• Citation overview tracker: An adjustable table that includes the number of times each document has been cited per publication year. 

• Analyze author output: A collection of in-depth and visual analysis tools designed to provide a better picture of an individual’s publication history and influence

Review your Author Profile to make sure it is up to date with the latest publications, and citations. 

Use Author Profiles to look for other researchers (globally and locally) active in the same research field for collaboration or to review the latest research your colleagues have published.

Search for authors using the Author search functionality.

Explore an Author’s Profile to see which research areas they are active in and their impact by reviewing 

• Subject areas 
• Documents by author 
• Total citations  
• h-index  
• Co-authors 
• Top Contributed to Topics

Scopus is the only database that implements algorithmic and systematic author disambiguation. Powerful algorithmic data-processing groups papers to an individual's profile with a high degree of accuracy based on matching of name, email, affiliation, subject area, citations, and  co-authors.

Despite the sophistication of the algorithmic profiling used by Scopus, algorithms cannot always match all documents to a single profile with 100% accuracy.  

If there are several Author Profiles for one person and you are confident that they are duplicates, you can request to have the profiles merged via the Author list page. 

You can use the Scopus Author Feedback Wizard to review Scopus profiles and submit feedback, including the ability to: 

• Set a preferred name 
• Merge profiles 
• Add and remove documents 
• Update affiliation 

Navigate to your Scopus Author Profile page to connect your profile to: 

• ORCID: Connect to ORCID via the ORCID page by logging in or setting up an account 

• NIH: Export your list of documents > select RIS format and select Citation information to export > log in to your NCBI account and import the file to the manage by bibliography area 

• Export profile to SciVal