Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track, analyze and visualize research.
Scopus content:
- Over 21,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide
- Contains 60 million records, 78% with abstracts
- Includes over 7.2 million conference papers
- Contains 27 million patent records
Librarians will demonstrate:
- Scopus document search
- Scopus author search and author profiles
- Scopus journal quality ranking and impact indexes
- Exporting of Scopus data for bibliographic management
- Creation of a Scopus account for saving search strategies, sets of citations, and setting auto alerts
There will also be time for questions from the class participants.
Guides:
Videos:
These videos are class recordings, hosted in Northwestern Medicine's institutional repository, DigitalHub, and require an NU NetID login. Once in DigitalHub, click the "Download" link for the best quality.
- Scopus Part 1: Subject Searching the Literature: Video | Transcript
- Scopus Part 2: Author Searching and Metrics: Video | Transcript