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Clicking Author name or Affiliation on the Advanced Search form will open the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page. From that page, you can select the authors or affiliations that you want to add to your search.
Note: You can view a maximum of 4,000 author or affiliation results at a time.
From the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page, you can search for the authors you want to add to your search, view author details, track citations for selected authors, or submit author feedback. The Make Author or Affiliation Selection page uses Scopus Author Identifier functionality to find the authors.
| Tip | If you know the unique author identifier number of the author you want to search for, you can enter it directly in the Advanced Search form using the AU-ID field. |
If you are already on the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page, skip to step #2.
From the Advanced Search page, click Author or Affiliation name.
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.
| Note | If you have JavaScript™ enabled in your browser, the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page will open in a new browser window. |
Optional: Select Show exact matches only to restrict your search to authors that exactly match the terms entered in the Author Last Name field and to authors that start with the terms entered in the Initials or First Name fields.
Optional: In Affiliation, enter affiliation search criteria for your author, such as affiliation name and location.
| Note | If you enter text only in the Affiliation field, affiliations will be returned instead of authors. |
Click Search.
The Make Author or Affiliation Selection page will display your search results.
| 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. |
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.
Select one of the following options:
To add the selected authors to your Advanced Search query, click 
. The selected author identifier numbers will be added to your Advanced Search query.
To view documents for one author, click the number of documents link next to that author. A results list of documents written by the selected author will display.
To view author details, click the 
Details link next to the author whose information you want to view. The Author Details page will appear.
To submit feedback about an author, click 
. The Author Feedback page will display.
OR
To track citations for the selected authors, click 
. Either the Citation Overview 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.
OR
Click Clear to remove information from the form.
From the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page, you can search for the affiliations you want to add to your search. The Make Author or Affiliation Selection page uses Scopus Affiliation Identifier functionality to find affiliations.
| Tip | If you know the unique affiliation identifier number for the affiliation that you want to search for, you can enter it directly in the Advanced Search form using the AF-ID field. |
To add affiliations to Advanced Search
If you are already on the Make Author or Affiliation Selection page, skip to step #2.
From the Advanced Search page, click Author or Affiliation name.
In Affiliation, enter your affiliation search criteria, such as the affiliation name and location.
| Note | If you enter text in the Last Name or Initials or First Name fields, authors will be returned instead of affiliations. |
Click Search.
The Make Affiliation Selection page will reload with your new search results.
Select the affiliations that you want to add to your search.
Select individual check boxes to the left of the affiliations you want to include.
Click to select all affiliations shown in the list.
Click to select all affiliations on the current page of results.
Select one of the following options:
To add the selected affiliations to your Advanced Search query, click . The selected affiliation identifier numbers will be added to your Advanced Search query.
To view documents for one affiliation, click the number of documents link next to that affiliation.
To view affiliation details, click the Details link next to the affiliation whose information you want to view. The Affiliation Details page will appear.
To submit feedback about an affiliation, click 
. The Affiliation Feedback page will display.
OR
Click Clear to remove information from the form.
Scopus Affiliation Identifier matches affiliations based on information in documents. 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 use the Find unmatched affiliations link to combine information from several affiliations.
When you have grouped affiliations, you can view documents for all the affiliations in the group and view a combined affiliation details page for all of the grouped affiliations.
Note: The affiliations will be grouped only for your current session. To suggest that a group of affiliations be permanently matched in Scopus, click the button.
To find and group unmatched affiliations
From the Advanced Search page, click Author or Affiliation name.
In Affiliation, enter your affiliation search criteria, such as the affiliation name and location.
Note: If you enter text in the Last Name or Initials or First Name fields, authors will be returned instead of affiliations.
Click Search.
Affiliations that match your search criteria will display on the Make Affiliation Selection page.
Click the Find unmatched affiliations link for the affiliation you want to match.
Scopus will retrieve up to 6 of the most relevant unmatched affiliations in a new results page. See Adding Unmatched Affiliations for more information.
Select the affiliations that you would like to group with the main affiliation.
Select individual check boxes to the left of the affiliations you want to include.
Click to select all
affiliations.
Clear a selected check box to remove that affiliation from the selection.
Click 
to add the selected
affiliations to the main affiliation on the Make Affiliation Selection page.
The Make Affiliation Selection page will display with the grouped affiliations added to the main affiliation. The total number of affiliations added to the main affiliation will display in the results list.
Do one of the following:
To add the grouped affiliations to your Advanced Search query, select the
affiliations, and then click . The selected affiliation identifier numbers will be added to your Advanced Search query.
To view the documents written by the main affiliation, click the first number of documents link.
To view the documents written by the entire group, click the grouped number of documents link.
To edit or remove an affiliation from the group, click the Edit group link.
To submit feedback about the grouped affiliations, select the
affiliation, and then click the button.
To view the Affiliations Details page for the grouped affiliations, click the Edit group link or the 
Details link.
To group a different affiliation on the same Make Affiliation Selection page, repeat steps 4-7.
You can navigate to a specific page of your search results by entering the appropriate page number in the Page box, and then clicking Go.
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You can view the next page of results by clicking 
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| Note | The Next button only appears if another page of search results is available. |
You can reset the number of authors or affiliations 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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