Scopus Author Profiles
Scopus is a research platform which draws on publications under the Elsevier banner of titles. This database, searchable here, offers interdisciplinary titles, insight, and metrics useful for tracking your publications, peer reviews, and editorial for Research Impact.
One feature Scopus offers is the Scopus Author Profile, which is a worthwhile function to opt into. Once you claim your Scopus Author Profile, you can claim your publications, consolidate your metrics, and connect your account to ORCID for easy reporting.
It is important to remember that Scopus only indexes Elsevier publications, so some titles may be absent: be sure to take this into account when you consider metrics.
Features
Scopus Author Profiles allow researchers to:
- Demonstrate their reputation and the impact of their outputs
- Attract other researchers for networking and collaboration
- Inform promotion and tenure dossiers, and personal CVs
- Add context and breadth to grant applications
Author Profiles allow potential employers and funding agencies to:
- Evaluate your work quickly and easily in one place
- Inform hiring and promotion decisions
- Decide which researchers or teams of researchers will receive research grants
Managing your Scopus Author Profile
Log in to your Scopus Author Profile through your TMU credential at this link. Click on 'register', if you are a new user, or 'sign in' if you are a returning user. A Scopus Author ID is automatically generated the first time one of your publications is indexed in Scopus, so if you qualify, you are looking to associate your profile with this ID.
Navigate to your author profile in the top right corner. Check to confirm that your personal details are correct, and whether any of your publications have been associated with your account already. On your metrics toolbar, click the three dots to expand the drop-down and look for 'potential author matches.' This will return a report that shows you publications in the system which may or may not be yours. Select any items that are yours and request they be merged into your author profile.
To cover as much ground as you can, search for your name, or the name of one of your publications, to ensure that you are including as much detail as possible.
Note: variant publication names may mean there are multiple Scopus IDs for the same person: you can merge these IDs on request to optimise your metrics.
Updating your Profile and Merging IDs
From your Author Details page, click on 'Request author detail corrections' to open the Author Feedback Wizard. Here you can review your profile and publication list and add alternative publishing names and other affiliations,
Additional tool: the Scopus Author Feedback Wizard is a useful additional option you can use once you have set up your Scopus account.
Connect to ORCID
From Scopus, search for one of your publications and go to your Author Details page (accessed by clicking on your name when it appears in a search results list, a source document details page, or a document details page) and then click on ‘Add to ORCID’. This will open the Scopus Author Feedback wizard.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus offers access to more that 14,000 scholarly titles including approximately 750 conference proceedings, all journals in Medline, 400 trade publications and also approximately 500 Open Access Journals. In development for more than two years with the collaborative efforts of 300 librarians and researchers, Scopus covers the content of over 4,000 international scientific, technical, medical and social science publishers.
For information on Scopus APIs, go Elsevier website
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