Affiliation Search Tips

You can search for organizations from the Affiliation Search form. Affiliation Search uses Scopus Affiliation Identifier functionality to locate affiliations. The identifier functionality finds and groups together affiliations that have similar names, so all documents associated with an affiliation can be easily found.

Affiliation searching is also available from the Author, Basic, and Advanced search forms. On the Basic and Advanced search forms, you can search for affiliations with other search criteria. From the Author search form, you can search for affiliations and authors.

Affiliation Search Field
Searching for Affiliations
Searching Using Basic, Advanced, or Author Search
Searching Using an Affiliation Identifier (AF-ID Field)
Accented Characters

Affiliation Search Field

From the Affiliation Search form, you can search the Affiliation field. The Affiliation field searches the preferred name of an organization, any variant names matched by the Affiliation Identifier, the organization's city, or the organization's country. All of your search terms must be included in one of these fields (preferred name, variant name, city, or country) for a match to be found.

Example

Affiliation: psychology toronto will find results where psychology and toronto are in the preferred name, variant name, city, or country field.

The following affiliations would be found:

Preferred Name: University of Toronto, Department of Psychology
Preferred Name: Toronto Institute of Psychology

The following affiliations would not be returned:

Preferred Name: York University, Department of Psychology
City: Toronto
Preferred Name: Department of Psychology
Variant Name: University of Toronto

Searching for Affiliations

Use Affiliation Search. Affiliation Search uses Scopus Affiliation Identifier functionality to find and group together affiliations that have similar names, so all documents associated with an affiliation can be found.
- Affiliation Search returns a list of affiliations that match your search criteria.
- It provides links to documents written by the organization and to information about the organization (if available).
- From Affiliation Search, you can also group affiliations together. Some documents do not have sufficient information for the Affiliation Identifier to accurately match them, even when they are from the same affiliation. To ensure that you are viewing a complete list of documents for an affiliation, you can combine information from several different affiliations on the Find Unmatched Authors page and the Affiliation Details page.
Use wildcards and boolean operators in your search.
Use Refine Results to narrow your search to a specific city or country.

Searching Using Basic, Advanced, or Author Search

Use Basic or Advanced Search to find documents associated with an affiliation when you want to include other search criteria, such as keywords.

For Example, to find documents associated with the University of Cincinnati that include the keyword chemistry, you could use Basic Search.
Use Author Search to search for authors and a specific affiliation. When you search using Author Search, authors are returned instead of affiliations.
Combine searches using Search History.

Searching Using an Affiliation Identifier

If you know the unique affiliation identifier number for a particular affiliation, you can search for documents associated with that affiliation using the AF-ID field in Advanced Search.

Tip	Unique affiliation identifier numbers display at the top of an affiliation search results list and on Affiliation Details pages.

Accented Characters

You can enter accented characters directly in a search field. These characters will be normalised as part of the search.

For example