Why use Scopus?
Scopus includes citations from three major databases: MEDLINE (biomedical), Embase (biomedical), and Compendex (engineering). It gives you a broader global and disciplinary pool to search in.
Scopus allows for cited reference searching; i.e. look at a paper’s references and also articles where the paper itself is a reference. An excellent way to find newer articles and trace the research conversation.
Author searching allows you to find papers by author and to check the author’s h-index, times cited.
Search Tips…
Use Quotation marks around phrases – for the best results, when searching phrases, enclose them with quotation marks. Scopus will search the terms adjacent to each other and in either order.
- e.g.
- “heart failure”
- “acute kidney injury”
Use Scrolled brackets to search exact phrase – if you need the terms to appear in that order.
- e.g.
- {dog therapy} – searches dog therapy but not therapy dog
Truncation – Use an asterisk (*) at the end of a word to retrieve all the various endings.
- e.g
- Neoplas* = neoplasm OR neoplasms OR neoplastic OR neoplasia
- nurs* = nurse OR nurses OR nursing OR nursed