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From the Make Author Selection page, you can do the following:
The Make Author Selection page contains the following information:
The total number of authors found.
The number of documents found for each author.
You can view a maximum of 4,000 author results at a time.
From the Make Author Selection or Affiliated Authors page, you can view documents for specific authors, view author details, submit author feedback, and track citations for specific authors. The Make Author Selection and Affiliated Authors pages use Scopus Author Identifier functionality to find authors.
Note: Scopus Author Identifier matches authors based on information in documents. Some documents do not have sufficient information for the Author Identifier to accurately match them, even when they are written by the same author. In this case, they will appear as single entries in the author results list alongside the larger groups.
To ensure that your selection is complete, check the results list and, if necessary, add any single, unmatched authors to your selection.
Do one of the following:
On the Basic or Author search form, enter your author search criteria, and then click Search. The Make Author Selection page will display.
Note: For a Basic Search, select Authors from the field type list, and then select Show: 
Authors.
From an Affiliation Details page, click the link next to Authors. The Affiliated Authors page will display.
Select the author(s) you want to search for from the list.
Tip: To see the title of an author's most recently published document on the selection page, click Show Last Title.
Select individual check boxes to the left of the authors you want to include.
Click 
to select all authors shown in the list.
Click 
to select all authors on the current page of results.
Clear a selected check box to remove that author from the selection.
To view the documents associated with your selected authors, click 
.
A results list will display.
Tip: To view documents for one author, click the number of documents link next to that author.
From the Make Author Selection page, you can perform another author search. For example, if your search returned a large number of authors, you could:
Edit your author search criteria
Add or refine affiliation search criteria
Select Show exact matches only
Edit your search Subject Areas
Note: Scopus will perform a new search based on the search criteria you enter. It will not search within the current results.
To change your search
Enter your author search criteria:
Required: In Author Last Name, enter an author's surname.
Optional: In Initials or First Name, enter an author's first name or initial.
Optional: Select Show exact matches only to create more precise search results. When the box is selected it affects the Author Last Name and Initials or First Name fields as follows:
Author Last Name : Only the exact spelling of the name will be searched and no other variations. i.e. Smith will only find 'Smith' as the last name and not 'Abbott-Smith'.
Initials or First Name : This will search for initials in the exact order they are written. There must be a full-stop or space between each initial.
For example, searching for Author Last Name: smith and Initials or First Name: j.l. with Show Exact Matches selected will find results from authors called 'Smith, J.L.' and NOT 'Smith, L.J.' Therefore 'Smith, J.' will only find Smith authors where 'J' is the first initial (there can be other initials after the first initial, but 'J' must be first).
Optional: In Affiliation, enter affiliation search criteria for your author, such as organization name and location.
Note: If you enter text only in the Affiliation field, affiliations will be returned instead of authors.
Click Edit to select one or more Subject Areas for your search. Selecting Edit will take you back to the Author Search form with your revised search criteria.
Note: If you selected all or did not select any Subject Areas during your original Author Search, Edit will not display.
Tip: To view a list of subjects covered in a Subject Area category, place your mouse over the subject area of interest. A popup will display listing all of the subjects in that category.
Click Search to begin a new Author Search.
The Make Author Selection page will display with your new search results.
Click Search to begin a new Author Search.
The Make Author Selection page will reload with your new search results.
You can see which documents in Scopus have cited your selected authors by using the Citation Tracker.
To track citations
Select the authors whose citations you would like to track from the list using the following selection options:
Select individual check boxes to the left of the authors you want to include.
Click to select all authors shown in the list.
Click to select all authors on the current page of results.
Note: You can select up to 15 authors.
Click 
.
The Citation Overview page will display.
OR
The Request Citation Tracker page will display. The Request Citation Tracker page displays if your Citation Tracker contains a large number of documents; will take a long time to process; or if JavaScript™ is disabled in your browser.
You can view information about a specific author from the Make Author Selection or Affiliated Authors page. Author details include research areas of interest, affiliations, and links to author documents and cited by information.
Tip: If the 
Details link does not display next to an author in search results, that author has been associated with only one document in Scopus. You can view Author Details for these authors by clicking the number of documents link, and then clicking the next to their name on the Document page.
To view author details
Click the Details link next to the author whose information you want to view.
The Author Details page will display.
You can submit information about specific authors from the Make Author Selection or Affiliated Authors page.
Note: The Feedback button is only available if you have JavaScript™ enabled in your browser.
To submit author feedback
Select the author(s) for which you want to submit feedback.
Click 
.
If you are not logged in to Scopus, you will be prompted to log in before submitting author feedback.
The Author Feedback page will display.
You can navigate to a specific page of your author search results by entering the appropriate page number in the Page box, and then clicking Go.
Tips:
To sort the list of authors alphabetically, click Authors.
To sort the list by the number of documents, click Documents.
You can view the next page of author results by clicking 
.
Note: The Next button only appears if another page of search results is available.
You can reset the number of authors displayed on the page using the Display menu.
If there are less than 20 results, the Display menu does not appear.
The default setting for the Display drop-down is set for 20 results per page.
The values for the Display drop-down are: 20, 50, 100, or 200.
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