Click on a source title to open the source details page. Scopus author id is a unique 11digit identifier automatically assigned by elsevier in its sciencedirect and scopus products. Scopus automatically attempts to identify individual authors through an algorithm. In the next search box, enter the authors last name. Jan 18, 2014 view author evaluator add to my list cited by since 1996 this author has been cited by 37 documents in scopus. The scopus author identifier distinguishes between these names by assigning each author in scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author. Author selfcitations can be excluded from calculating an hindex. When we started the book title expansion project, we originally. Authors with common names scopus and web of science can easily help distinguish between similar author names. Straighten up your author record scholarly metrics. This is the title of the journal, book series when available, book chapter or other source in which the document was published, as well as. Some views return more, some less, and a view does not have to be explicitly.
The profile includes the authors name, a scopus author identification number author id, citation statistics, subject areas in which the author. Author metrics scholarly metrics guides at johns hopkins. Select one or more names from the list of results, based on affiliation, subject area and location. Make sure you switch the standard documents search type to authors. Then, from the author s page, pick the books that need to be split off. For example, an author may be cited as smith, j in one document, but as smith, john in another. The scopus to orcid workflow additionally allows you to send your scopus author id and list of publications to your orcid profile.
This not only means you can be found by orcid number. What you can do instead is advertising the double name on your webpage and cv, and ensuring that the academic databases such as web of science and scopus correctly recognize and handle your name change, marking all of your papers as written by a single author. Establishing your author profile tools for authors beckerguides. May 08, 20 you can find your id number at scopus free look up page.
Automated author affiliation processing using scopus data. As a result, searches for a specific author include a preferred name and variants of the preferred name. The scopus author identifier incorporates different name formats of the same author within a single digital identifier, which partly resolves the issue of author name disambiguation. The following steps outline how you can do a cited reference search in scopus. Jun 10, 2016 the scopus author identifier incorporates different name formats of the same author within a single digital identifier, which partly resolves the issue of author name disambiguation. Clarke, g and clarke, gc find yourself in scopus by using the author search option. Affiliation search search an institutions profile in scopus author search search on scopus author profiles scopus search search scopus content sciencedirect search search sciencedirect content. Locate your name, variants of the name, affiliation, author id, number of. Results will return a main author name along with variants of the authors name that have been grouped into an author profile and associated.
Personal information name formats, author id, affiliation. May 12, 2020 the author identifier tool in scopus allows users to locate a particular author by entering the authors last name, full first name and a middle initial, as well as the current affiliation of the author. Enter the last family name and initials or first name of the author in the two author fields. When grouping author names under a unique author identifier number, scopus takes into consideration last name variations, all possible combinations of first and last names, and the author name with and without initials. Stay current with the worlds research output scopus. Procedia computer science 146 2019 53a59 2 author name procedia computer science 00 2019 000a000 at fau, it is required to identify each author of a publication including internal or external affiliation. Author ids can be located by performing an author search. You can also search in combination with hisher affiliation. Scopus has sophisticated automated methods of detecting and combining author profiles with slight variations in names and affiliations. Unless youre a household name author steven king, jk rowling, malcolm gladwell, most people buying your book wont know who you are. Utsa does not have a subscription to scopus, but you can utilize a free scopus author lookup tool to obtain uptodate citation metrics to your works in publications indexed by scopus. From the author details page, you can create two types of author alerts. Scopus provides author reports that include the following information.
Tucker has sold over 5 million books as a 4x nyt bestselling author and is the cofounder of scribe. Enter an authors last name and, at least, their first initial. Orcid open researcher and contributor id is a type of author identifier orcid aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communication by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between orcid and other current researcher id schemes. Mar 05, 2020 scopus uses the scopus author identifier to attempt to group documents by the same author, but be aware that a single author may be listed more than once depending on different forms of the name or a change in institutional affiliation. Destination select whether to send the analyze author output page to a local printer, or to save the document as a. Use the author name with first initial, then then click on the add author name variant button to enter the authors name with first and middle initials. Orcid author and research identifiers library guides at.
Apr 21, 2020 orcid open researcher and contributor id is a type of author identifier orcid aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communication by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between orcid and other current researcher id schemes. In case you missed the announcement, in mid20 scopus launched the books expansion project. Scopus author id managing author profiles online libguides at. How to edit name on existing publications after a name change. When searching the affil field, you can specify if you want all of your search terms to be found in the same affiliation affil is a combined field that searches the following author address fields. Click set citation feed to be notified through your rss reader when this document is cited by another document in scopus. Scopus2orcid use the scopus to orcid author details and. Afidharvard medical school 3000604 or afid3000604 returns documents written by authors affiliated with harvard medical school and variants of that name stored in scopus. In 20 scopus began indexing select books and book chapters and as of june 2018, there are over 150,000 book titles indexed in scopus. The scopus author identifier distinguishes you from other authors by assigning you a unique number and then grouping all your documents together. Affiliation can also be added in the affiliation field. To ensure accuracy if it is a popular name, you may enter university of illinois in the affiliation field. Uniqueness of an author name establishes a presence for an author. Simply type in your last name, first name or initials to locate your record and find your assigned number.
Thompson reuters supports orcid and recommends that authors obtain an orcid in addition to a researcher id. Find your scopus author id number health sciences library blog. If youve published a research output in a book, in a conference proceedings or journal, you may have an. Mar 18, 2020 use the author search tab to conduct an author search then select the correct author. J and lewis, michael in different publications, or there may be two authors named john smith. In case of different, automatically created author profiles in scopus, the scholars, representatives of their institutions, and other interested persons may. Scopus has now surpassed its targeted goal of 120,000 books indexed since the scopus book titles expansion program was first announced, marking the conclusion of the project 10,000 books will continue to be added annually. Did you know scopus offers free profiles to all indexed authors. Content coverage guide scopus source list book title list scopus. Select the author from either the search results or the document details page. However, this means that you may have more than one id generated if you have published with variant names and affiliations e. These metrics may be used for tenure, funding and for other research. This tutorial demonstrates the features available on a scopus document details page.
Scopus2orcid use the scopus to orcid author details and documents wizard to collect all your scopus records in one unique author profile. Make sure the work you search is indexedcovered in scopus. A view is a kind of filter on data returned from the apis. If you are using initials for the first andor middle name, be sure to enter periods after the initials e. Select the appropriate author record, and you can view your author identification record.
Hundreds of elsevier a large publisher journals are not even indexed in scopus, and scopus is owned and run by elsevierrelx group. The author id is located just under the authors name and affiliation in the form of a 10 digit number. Click on a document title to open a document details page. Learn how to calculate your hindex using scopus paperpile. Creating an author citation alert to be notified by email when an author is cited on scopus, create an author citation alert from the author details page or from the alerts page. Clear the name in it, and reenter the author youd like to connect this book to. You can access an hindex from the author details, the analyze author output and the citation overview pages. Apr, 2020 in 20 scopus began indexing select books and book chapters and as of june 2018, there are over 150,000 book titles indexed in scopus. Scopus author identifier researcher identifiers and your. Scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Click on an author s name to open the author details page. Research overview including the number of documents published and available in scopus, references, citations, hindex, coauthors, web search, and subject area.
And arizona state university as affiliation name or whatever organization the author is affiliated with click on the authors name to view their profile. Scopus author identifier scopus automatically attempts to identify individual authors through an algorithm. Google scholar, scopus, web of science database comparisons. Orcid author and research identifiers library guides. Click set citation alert to be notified by email when this document is cited by another document in scopus.
The scopus author profile cannot be edited by author, only scopus can do this if requested. Reflecting back on the original goal, this is 45,000 more books than initially planned. Among the features of scopus is that authors of books and book chapters can obtain citation counts for their works. For example, an author may appear as lewis, m lewis, m. Author connect is elseviers flagship initiative where renowned national and international authors of our bestsellers, who are also the expert leaders in their subject domain are invited to give guest lecture sessions in various institutes. Each author name links to the authors details page. Your orcid number then becomes connected to your profile within scopus. I have recently searched my publications in scopus and i have found that they are all scattered around. For a journal and consequently its articles to be indexed in scopus, a publisher must proactively suggest the title for indexing. Click an author name to see a list of all documents by that author. This information is usually not included in regular. Released on may th, the scopus author identifier automatically distinguishes between authors with the same name and matches variations of author names. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Scopus author id is a unique 11digit identifier automatically assigned by.
Use these alerts to receive email notices when new documents are loaded on scopus. Scopus will soon cease the support of ie 9 and users are recommended to upgrade to the latest internet explorer, firefox, or chrome. Type the last name and intials or first name of the author you want to find. Click the result thats the best match you may not find an exact match, this will open an author details page. The hindex is an author level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientis. Review yours, claim it, and update it all for free. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the worlds research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Select the author search tab on the scopus search page. By entering a search term or phrase, you are searching the title, the abstract and the fulltext including authors, affiliations and references of every article and book chapter on springerlink. The data behind your scopus author profile informs the outward view. The reason behind that maybe is because i have a compound last name.
Merge author profiles and affiliations in scopus when an authors works are added to the scopus database, an author profile is created. The scopus author identifier ensures identification between the differentiation in author search results. Note that you may find more than one profiles that belong. Ralph waldo emerson, letters and social aims 1876, quotation and originality. Once you select the correct author then you can use the analytic tools below.
Scopus imports in activity insight digital measures. Click on an authors name to open the author details page. Check your scopus author profile boost your academic profile. With more than 75,000 additional book titles now indexed in scopus and another 45,000 planned for 2015, it is easier to uncover the bounty of literature supporting great intellect.
Some say it is a quality filter, but in my opinion the binary of in or out is very harsh on some journals which are left out of scopus. You can also search using an authors open researcher and contributor id orcid. Scopus is elseviers abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Results can be further refined by publication year, author name, document type, source name, affiliation, language, and more. Apr 20, 2020 select the author search tab on the scopus search page.
The most efficient way to search is to enter the article title in the first box. The author search helps you find documents written by a specific person in scopus, even if the author is listed differently for example, an author may be cited as smith, j in one document, but as smith, john in another. Click the details link, if available, for more information on an author, including the author id. The author identifier tool in scopus allows users to locate a particular author by entering the author s last name, full first name and a middle initial, as well as the current affiliation of the author. Enter a few citation details into the main search page. Scopus indexed journals i below is the collection of all journals, by issn and title, as ranked by scopus. It works well as long as you have a unique name, but if your. It works well as long as you have a unique name, but if your publishing name is a common one youll have to do some clean up as it may link works you didnt author to your id. How to ensure accuracy in your scopus author profile elsevier. Enter the last name of an author and the first initial for the broadest search.
Using advanced algorithms scopus is the first to disambiguate author names over such a comprehensive body of data. An author profile opens with detailed research information, including hisher h index number along with the hgraph. The source title is a link to the publications information page. Frame your reputation and get more media coverage with a good bio. Scopus only includes articles published after 1995 when calculating the hindex. The situation has gone pretty weird also in one of my papers, where they have put one of my last names to another author. In scopus, it is possible to perform quick searches by document, author, or affiliation. Click on the view citation overview button at the top of the list of results. The publications that are under your profile are assigned automatically to you by matching the author name, affiliation, email, research area, co authors, etc. Citation counts for authors citation research and impact. The accuracy of your hindex also depends on the accuracy of your author profile. Because our campus doesnt subscribe to scopus, hyperlinks to scopus will be inactive. Select your name from the author result list to reach your scopus profile.
For the broadest search enter the last name and only the first initial of the first name. Identifier automatically assigned to all authors indexed in scopus. Mar 18, 2020 once in scopus, select the radio button for authors and search for your name. Selecting the correct entry from the author results we are lucky with our search for stephen hawking as scopus algorithms have already been able to automatically group different spellings of the name hawking, stephen. Estimate how unqiue a profile is by get the number of matches of an authorsearch for this person. Open access documents are also available on scopus. If your record is incomplete, click edit author profile in upper right corner to get to the scopus author wizard to update your record. However in some cases, author profiles may not be combined, resulting in the author having 2 or more author profiles. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the worlds research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, scopus features smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Checking and updating your author profile in scopus. Access scopus from the health sciences library homepage. The author searchtab is beside the document search tab. Scopus is a sourceneutral abstract and citation database, curated by independent subject matter experts, that places powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, institutional research managers, and funders.
As an additional reminder, scopus does not ask authors to pay in order to be indexed. Book coverage includes monographs, edited volumes and major reference works and graduate level textbooks. The advanced search option offers greater customization, allowing for the use of field codes and proximity operators. By registering as a scopus user, you are able to create search, document, and author alerts to stay uptodate at your desired frequency. Scopus author identifier also helps you find authors who have been cited differently. Researcherid and scopus author id author and research. It contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social. Using an author search, find all the publications in the database for an individual. Choice of what gets indexed in scopus is quite arbitrary.
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