Reviewing Documents

This tutorial shows you the features available on a Scopus document page.

Let's look at a document in Scopus.

The source title links to the publication's information page.

Each author name links to the author’s details page.  The page includes a list of the author’s articles available in Scopus.

The author icon links to the author's correspondence address.

The abstract summarizes the information in the full-text article.

Your search terms appear in bold.

Index Keywords and Author Keywords are also available.

References used in the article are listed at the end of the document page.

Bibliographic references may include links to documents on platforms outside Scopus.

References may also include links to the documents in Scopus which cite the referenced document.

To view the references in a results page format, click the View in table layout link.

To print, export, e-mail, or create a bibliography for the referenced documents, select the references and click the appropriate link.

Let's go back to the top of the document page.

Citation information for documents in Scopus which have cited this article since 1996 is available on the right.

To set up an e-mail alert or subscribe to an RSS feed to notify you when this document is cited by other documents in Scopus, click the appropriate link.

Related documents may be available that share the same authors, keywords, or references as this article.

Applications that you can use on the document page are displayed.

You can use these applications to easily enhance and expand your research.

To use an application, click the double-arrow to open it in the toolbar.

Some applications may also open in a full screen. Click the Open the application to full screen button to do that.

Use the Options drop down list to edit or remove an application.  You can also move the application to a different location within the order.

You can also add new applications or edit your complete application list directly from the toolbar.

To learn more about using applications, see the online Help.

The document page also includes citation information for web documents and patents that cite this article.

To view the full-text document at the publisher's website, click the View at Publisher link.

The option to order the full-text document may be available.

If the full-text document is available on a platform outside Scopus, a button to the platform is available.

To print, export, e-mail, or create a bibliography for the document, click the appropriate link.

Choose the output for any of these functions and Scopus displays a list of the document fields which will be included in the output.

Or you can select "Specify fields..." as the output and choose which document fields you want to include.

Select the fields you want to include in the output.

Let's go back to the document page.

To temporarily save this document in your session list, click the Add to My list button.

To save the document to your desktop as a PDF, click the Download PDF button.

For more information about the features available on a Scopus document, see the Scopus online Help.

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