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Citation Overview

The Citation Overview page displays all documents included in your Citation Tracker and the number of times they were cited during a specified period of time. From the Citation Overview page, you can view a list of citing documents by clicking the links in the Citations grid. You can also print or export a list of the citing documents.

If you created your Citation Tracker for a source, Citation Tracker displays a link to that source.

Viewing Citing Documents

Changing Citation Overview Options

Excluding Author Self Citations

Viewing an h index

Creating a List

Printing and Exporting Citation Overviews

Deleting Citing Documents


Viewing Citing Documents

You can click a link in the Citations grid to view a summary of the citations for a particular cell.

There are several types of links available in the Citations grid. Each link opens a Citation Overview Results page that is based on the type of link you selected. See Citation Overview Results for more information about Citation Overview links and Citation Overview Results.

From Display Documents, you can choose to list 25, 50, 100, or 200 documents per Citation Overview page.

Note   For Citation Overviews with more than 500 documents and that have self citations of selected authors or all authors excluded, column totals are not links.
Tip  

You can view a cited document from the Citation Overview page by clicking the document title.

To view a document's citation in a pop-up window, place your mouse over the document title.

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Changing Citation Overview Options

Note  
  • If you change the date range or select an option from Exclude from citation overview, you may see the Request Citation Tracker page. You'll see it 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.

  • If you click Stop while your Citation Overview is being calculated, the Citation Overview page will not include citation totals. Click Request Complete Citation Overview as CSV file to request that the Citation Overview be sent to you as a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file with the citation totals.

Excluding Author Self Citations

The available options for excluding author self citations vary depending on where in Scopus you created your Citation Tracker. If you created your Citation Tracker:

Changing the Sort Order and Date Range

You can change the order in which cited documents are listed and change the date range for the Citation Overview.

  1. From Sort Document, select one of the following sorting options:
  2. From Date Range, select a beginning and ending year for the overview.

  3. Click Update Overview.
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Creating a List

To create a list of the cited documents, click save to list. You can access your Saved Lists from My Profile.

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Printing and Exporting a Citation Overview

You can export or print a copy of all the documents in your Citation Overview.

Note    For Citation Overviews with multiple pages, click Print to print only the current page and not all pages. For a list of the entire Citation Overview, click Export.

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Creating an h Index

Click Hirsch Graph button to view the h index score for authors or documents.

Note   Complete citation information for articles published prior to 1996 is not available in Scopus. Articles published before 1996 are not used when calculating an h index.

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Deleting Documents

To remove documents from your Citation Overview, select the documents that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

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Related Topics

My List

My Profile

Make Author Selection Page

Viewing Author Details

Source Information

Citation Overview Results

Tracking Citations

Requesting a Citation Tracker Report


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