Authors can verify and correct their scopus profiles to improve accuracy. A view is a kind of filter on data returned from the apis. In 2016, a free website, scopus citescore, was introduced. An author profile opens with detailed research information, including hisher h index number along with the hgraph. Released on may th, the scopus author identifier automatically distinguishes between authors with the same name and matches variations of author names. Reflecting back on the original goal, this is 45,000 more books. Enter the last name of an author and the first initial for the broadest search. Orcid open researcher and contributor id seeks to remedy the systemic name ambiguity problems seen in scholarly research by assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individuals research output. 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. In case you missed the announcement, in mid20 scopus launched the books expansion project. 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. Authors with publications indexed in scopus are automatically. Research overview including the number of documents published and available in scopus, references, citations, hindex, coauthors, web search, and subject area.
Scopus is a subscriptionbased service, but when you are on the campus network, you probably have access to it. Establishing your author profile tools for authors beckerguides. Content coverage guide scopus source list book title list scopus. As far as we know, there is no other solution for converis available for these purposes. With scopus imports, faculty can now pull their citations into activity insight directly from scopus without first saving them into a bibtex file. 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. Scopus only includes articles published after 1995 when calculating the hindex.
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. Even so, web of science may not include all citations to your work, especially if you are looking for books, book chapters, and other nonjournal article publications. This not only means you can be found by orcid number. Scopus author id is a unique 11digit identifier automatically assigned by. If youve published a research output in a book, in a conference proceedings or journal, you may have an. For the broadest search enter the last name and only the first initial of the first name.
The publications under your profile are automatically assigned to you based on a matching on author name, affiliation, email, research area, coauthors, etc. Scopus will display a history of cited references to the authors articles. The scopus author identifier ensures identification between the differentiation in author search results. Journal selection tools, also known as journal matching or journal comparison tools, are popular resources that help authors determine the most appropriate in scope journal to publish their manuscripts. Scopus also has records for more than 120,000 books and more than 530 book. Check your scopus author profile boost your academic profile. Scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Results will return a main author name along with variants of the authors name that have been grouped into an author profile and associated publications for that author. But even if you do not have access via your institution, you can use the free author lookup to query your hindex. The author details page shows you the author id and other information about the author. You will be automatically assigned a scopus author id when you publish in a journal indexed by scopus.
Researcherid and scopus author id author and research. 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. Authors with common names scopus and web of science can easily help distinguish between similar author names. Registering in scopus enables you to save searches and set alerts. 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. Using advanced algorithms scopus is the first to disambiguate author names over such a comprehensive body of data. The journalauthor name estimator jane is a free online bibliographic journal selection tool. And arizona state university as affiliation name or whatever organization the author is affiliated with click on the authors name to view their profile. Your orcid number then becomes connected to your profile within scopus. It is not necessary to register in scopus, because the scopus author identifier is not linked to the scopus login. With more than 75,000 additional book titles now indexed in scopus and another.
Orcid author and research identifiers library guides. Publisher neutral they are an info provider, not a publisher includes all types of documents e. The scopus to orcid workflow additionally allows you to send your scopus author id and list of publications to your orcid profile. The author search helps you find documents written by a specific person in scopus, even if the author is listed differently. Some views return more, some less, and a view does not have to be explicitly. Locate your name, variants of the name, affiliation, author id, number of. Select one or more names from the list of results, based on affiliation, subject area and location. In this case, the books in question need to be split apart. By using this method, scientists at fau save a lot of time for publication list maintenance. Use the author search tab to conduct an author search then select the correct author.
Users can search the lookup tool to locate an authors profile, which includes the identifier, references. Author search access scopus sign in for off campus use, if necessary select the author search tab and enter the author name and click the search button. Scopus author id is a unique 11digit identifier automatically assigned by elsevier in its sciencedirect and scopus products. Send us an email if you see an author merge that needs doing. Used to accurately identify contributors to arxiv, an electronic archive of research articles in the sciences maintained by the cornell university library. Scopus imports in activity insight digital measures. In case of different, automatically created author profiles in scopus, the scholars, representatives of their institutions, and other interested persons may. 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. Author profile allows you to analyse citations of an authors publications indexed by scopus, the following example is to find the author id and profile of the professor elaine rush. Scopus author identifier scopus automatically attempts to identify individual authors through an algorithm. Click on the view citation overview button at the top of the list of results.
Establishing your author profile tools for authors. Scopus research impact library guides at aut university. Using an author search, find all the publications in the database for an individual. Scopus2orcid use the scopus to orcid author details and. Scopus has sophisticated automated methods of detecting and combining author profiles with slight variations in names and affiliations. Autoassigns unique id groups publications allows manual correction has a strong link with orcid to support interoperability and feeds back to scopus scopus is an international data provider for funders, assessment organisations and ranking organisations. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Sometimes, open library thinks that a certain author has written a book or two that was actually written by another author with a similar or identical name. For example, an author may be cited as smith, j in one document, but as smith, john in another. If you want cited references for pre1996 articles, you will have to search some other tools.
Scopus is an interdisciplinary database that is international in scope. Scopus author id managing author profiles online libguides at. Go to author search and fill in the authors last name, all or only the first initial and the. For example, an author may appear as lewis, m lewis, m. However in some cases, author profiles may not be combined, resulting in the author having 2 or more author profiles. When we started the book title expansion project, we originally. Your publications on scopus may be spread over a number of different author profiles, because these are generated automatically. 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. Automated author affiliation processing using scopus data.
Learn how to calculate your hindex using scopus paperpile. Adding books makes certain subject fields more complete and also further enhances the author profiles and hindex of researchers working in these subject areas. The hindex an author impact metric for articles tracked by scopus will be displayed on the right side of the screen. Scopus author identifier matches the documents of this author and groups these name variants together so that authors, even if cited differently, are identified with their specific papers. On scopus search page, click authors type in an authors name and the affiliation of the author. Scopus author identifier also helps you find authors who have been cited differently.
On the author results page, click on the correct author to view affiliation, research areas, publications, citation trends, coauthors, and other author history information. The scopus database addresses the issue of author ambiguation and reconciles authors who use different variations of their names throughout their careers. The author and affiliation searching tutorial outlines how you can create an author search, view author details, find variations of an authors name, group names of authors with a selected author, view documents that have cited a selected author and view author performance information. Outlook in contrast to web of science, scopus offers detailed author information for books and book. You can enter the authors last name, initials, first name, affiliation, and or orcid. Scopus provides author reports that include the following information.
Once in scopus, select the radio button for authors and search for your name. If scopus finds your author, you can click on the persons name in the search results. 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. Scopus is an abstract and citation database that has stored and analyzed millions of publications including journal articles, as well as conference proceedings and books.
Personal information name formats, author id, affiliation. More options for institutional citation analysis than scopus. Uniqueness of an author name establishes a presence for an author. Simply having books content in scopus makes this content source more discoverable to researchers. Authors with publications indexed in scopus are automatically assigned a scopus author id. In scopus, when an author name search is executed, a list of all authors fitting the parameters of the search strategy is retrieved. J and lewis, michael in different publications, or there may be two authors named john smith. Refer to the information below to perform these two types of searches. Checking and updating your author profile in scopus.
Our content operations team has been actively processing books. Furthermore, our method is less errorprone than manual work. Scopus author identifier helps to solve one of the biggest problems associated with author searching how do you distinguish between articles belonging to authors with similar names, when the name is recorded in several different ways, or when the name contains unusual characters such as. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. This helps you find and recognize an author, despite variations in name spelling. Scopus ids for individual authors can be integrated with. Select the author search tab on the scopus search page. The search results page will diplay all authors with citations in the scopus database. Technion of the author in the author search tab and click search. Scopus author identifier researcher identifiers and your.
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