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Scopus User Guide: Home

This is a user guide based on Elsevier's guide and tailored for NU community to navigate Scopus while searching relevant information for their research and educational purposes

About Scopus

Scopus is a global, multidisciplinary database for discovering academic literature produced by Elsevier. It is curated by independent subject matter experts who are recognized leaders in their fields. It puts powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, research managers, and funders to promote ideas, people, and institutions. Scopus offers a more extensive list of modern sources and has an independent sourcing system.

Launched: 2004
Producer: Elsevier (Netherlands)
Disciplines Covered: Life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, health sciences
Peer Review Quality Measures: h-Index, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
Update Frequency: Daily

What’s an abstract and citation database?

Scopus is an abstract and citation database.

  • Abstracts are brief synopses of articles.
  • A citation gives credit to a source, and contains publication information such as author(s), title and date. Most Scopus citations link to the full-text version of the publication hosted on various publishers' platforms.

Scopus Numbers

Scopus has more than 94 million records — and that number is growing all the time.

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This guide is based on the Elsevier's LibGuide about Scopus

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