This tutorial shows you the features and functions available on the Search Results page.

Search results from other content sources may be available.

Your search appears at the top of the page for reference.

The Analyze results tool gives you an overview of occurrences of your search terms.

Use the tabs to view other types of analysis.

For example, the Source Title Analyzer displays the total number of documents per year matching the query for each source title.

You can add source titles to the graph and compare them.

Click on any point on the graph to get more detailed information.

From here, you can also compare scientific journals in the Journal Analyzer.

Let’s go back to our original search results list.

To modify your original search request, click the Edit link.

To store the search for future reference, click the Save link.

To set up a search to run automatically on a schedule you specify, click the Set alert link. You will receive email notification of the search results.

Click the Set feed link to subscribe to an RSS feed. Any new documents found in Scopus by the search will be added to your RSS reader.

To see the searches you've run during the current session, click the View search history link.

You can refine your search results list is by entering additional keywords in the Search within results box.

Use the Refine Results feature to filter the results list by categories such as publication year, author name, or subject area.

For a preview of articles in a specific category, click on the number of articles shown on the right.

To view additional entries in a category, click the View more link.

Note that if a Refine Results category includes more than 10 items, you can click View more again to see an expanded list.

You can use the expanded list to limit, exclude, or sort your search results.

To close the expanded list, click the double-arrow button.

If a Refine Results category is closed, click the double-arrow to open it.

You can move the categories so the ones you use the most are at the top of the list.

You can export the contents of the categories to a CSV file.

You can refine your search results by excluding or limiting them to specific information from one or more of the categories.

Reducing the results list makes it much easier to locate the article you're looking for.

Let’s limit these search results to documents published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2007.

To do that, select the year and journal, then click the Limit to button.

Let’s return to the original results list.

Applications that you can use on the search results page are displayed.

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

Let’s look at some of the other features on the search results page.

To download the PDF version of the documents, select the documents and click the Download PDF link.

If a PDF version of a document is not available, the abstract of the document will be downloaded.

To print, export, e-mail, or create a bibliography, select the documents and click the appropriate button.

You can add documents to a temporary list for reference during your research session. Just select the documents and click the Add to My list link.

To generate a Citation Overview, select the documents and click the View citation overview link.

To view a list of documents that have cited the documents, select the documents and click the View citations link.

To view the references of the documents, select the documents and click the View references link.

The documents are listed in order of publication date, most recent date first.

You can sort the documents by different criteria to meet your research needs.

Click an author name to view the author’s Detail page.

The Citations column shows you the number of documents that cite the listed document. 

Click the number in the Citations column to see the citing documents.

If you have access to the full-text document, you can see it at the publisher’s site.

Click the Show Abstract link to display the abstract text without leaving your search results.

Your search terms appear in bold.

The Related Documents box lists documents which share all references with the document.

Let’s return to our original search results page.

If a document has been accepted for publication but not yet assigned to a volume/issue, Article in Press appears below the source title.

If a document is published as a book, a book icon appears with the document title.

To view the document, click on the document title.

For more information about search results, go to the Scopus online Help.

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