Scopus is a huge multidisciplinary database with citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal literature, trade journals, books, patent records, and conference publications. It provides tools for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing search results.
1. Search for:
2. Set up alerts to track future articles:
3. Analyze data (primarily from 1996 forward)
See Getting Started with Scopus for an overview of Scopus from its publisher, Elsevier.
Download the Quick User Guide.
View Elsevier's Scopus online resource for more information.
To personalize your Scopus account so you can use features such as email alerts, set up an account by following the 'Create Account' link in the top right corner of the Scopus page.
Scopus apps are available for iPhone/iPad and Android users.
Note: Full-text articles are not available, but you can search for, save and email and/or tweet abstracts and links to articles for later use.
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Fun Fact:
The name, Scopus, was inspired by the bird, Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), which supposedly has excellent navigation skills. [Burnham JF. Scopus database: a review. Biomed Digit Libr. 2006 Mar 8;3:1. doi:10.1186/1742-5581-3-1]
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Thank you to the Librarians at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library for permission to use content from their Scopus guide!