Adding Unmatched Authors

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. To ensure that you are viewing a complete list of documents for an author, you can combine information from several authors on an Authors Details page. See Grouping Authors for more information.

From the Add Unmatched Authors page, you can:

Add unmatched authors to an Author Details page
Refine your search
Navigate the Add Unmatched Authors page

Adding Unmatched Authors

From the Add Unmatched Authors page, you can group several authors together on one Author Details page.

Note

The authors are grouped only for your user account and only for your current session.

To suggest that a group of authors be permanently matched in Scopus, click the button on the author details page.
To save this group in My Profile, so it appears the next time you access this Author Details page, click the button on the author details page.

To find and group unmatched authors

From an Author Details page, click the Find unmatched authors link.

Scopus retrieves up to 6 of the most relevant unmatched authors.
If necessary, click the Show full list link to view the full list of unmatched authors.
At the Add Unmatched Authors page, select the authors that you want to group.
- 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.
- Click a selected check box to remove that author from the selection.
Click to group the selected authors.
At the Author Details page:
- To save this group in My Profile, so it appears the next time you access the current Author Details page, click the button.
- To remove an author from the group, select the author and then click the button.
- To submit feedback about an author, select the author and then click the button.
- To view the Author Details page for a grouped author, click the Details link next to the author whose information you want to view.
- To view the documents written by a grouped author, click the number of documents link next to that author.

Refining Your Search

From the Add Unmatched Authors page, you can refine your search by searching for a specific affiliation or you can limit or exclude documents from the results list.

To search for a specific affiliation

In Affiliation, enter the affiliation search criteria, such as organization name and location, for your author.
Click .

The Add Unmatched Authors page refreshes to show the new search results.

Navigating the Add Unmatched Authors Page

You can navigate to a specific page of the author search results by entering the appropriate page number in the Page box, and then clicking Go.

Tip
You can sort the list by the most relevant author by clicking the Sort list by best fit with author link.
You can sort the list of authors by Authors, most recent Affiliation, City, Country, or 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.

Adding Unmatched Authors