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Scopus search results lists the documents, and if available, the references, patents, web, and selected sources found by your search request. Scopus results pages display when you run a Basic, Advanced, Cited By, or Reference search, view documents within a source, view alert or RSS results, and from My List and Saved List.
The following actions may also be available for search results. (Click a link for more information):
Your Scopus search is also run on Scopus references, the Web using Scirus search, and patent information. Each set of results is shown on a separate tab: Scopus, More, Web, Patents, or SelectedSources.
A link to an external search engine, such as a library catalogue (if available for your institution) may display.
If your search results in no listings, you may select the Save as search alert link to arrange for the search to reoccur at a later time. This will ensure that if new material arises in the future regarding your search query, Scopus will notify you of the result.
Note: Citation information for some records was derived from Scopus reference lists. For these records, limited functionality is available on Scopus. Non-Scopus citations display in gray text and are indicated by
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From search results, you can view documents in a variety of formats.
Tip: To view a document abstract on the results page, click the Show Abstract link.
The Show Abstract link is not available for non-Scopus documents, such as abstracts available on platforms external to Scopus or citations derived from Scopus references.
You can track how often documents in your search results have been cited using the Citation Tracker.
Note: You can include up to 5000 documents in a Citation Tracker. If you select more than 5000 documents only the first 5000 will be included in the Citation Tracker.
The Citation Tracker functionality is only available from the Scopus Results tab (and not the More, Web, Patent, and SelectedSources tabs).
Select individual check boxes on the left.
Click
to select all documents shown in the list.
Click
to select documents shown on the page of results you are currently
viewing.
Click a selected check box to add or remove that document from the selection.
Note: Use
to access additional individual items or entire pages that
can be used when creating a Citation Overview.
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 use the
button to collect documents from your search results and place them in a temporary, separate list. The list of selected documents is then available for additional use within your Scopus session, allowing you to conduct additional searches and then pick and choose which documents you want to add to your list.
Note: The
functionality is only available from the Scopus Results tab (and not the More, Web, Patent, and SelectedSources tabs).
You can view a list of documents that have cited documents in your search results list.
Select individual check boxes on the left.
Click
to select all documents shown in the list.
Click
to select documents shown on the page of results you are currently
viewing.
Click a selected check box to add or remove that document from the selection.
Note: Use
to access additional individual items or entire pages that
can be used when viewing Cited By results.
Click
. A Scopus results page listing the documents that have cited the selected documents will display.
Tip: You can see the number of times a document has been cited by other documents in Scopus. Click the link to view the documents.

You can view the references of a document, or a selection of documents, in a results list. From the References results list, you can output the references in a variety of formats, view the references on Scopus (if available), and view how many times those documents have been cited on Scopus.
Note: Citation information for some records was derived from Scopus reference lists. For these records, limited functionality is available on Scopus. Non-Scopus citations display in gray text and are indicated by
.
Select individual check boxes on the left.
Click
to select all documents shown in the list.
Click
to select documents shown on the page of results you are currently
viewing.
Click a selected check box to add or remove that document from the selection.
Notes:
You can view the references of up to 2000 documents.
Use
to access additional individual items or entire pages that
can be used when viewing References.
Click
. A Scopus results page listing the references of the selected documents will display.
You can download PDF (Portable Document Format) versions of documents using the Scopus Document Download Manager. The Scopus Document Download Manager was developed in partnership with QUOSA™. More information about the Manager can be found in the Download Manager help.
Notes:
If a PDF version of a document is not available, you can choose to download an abstract instead.
The Download button is only available if you have JavaScript™ enabled as a preference in your browser.
Select individual check boxes on the left.
Click
to select all documents shown in the list. You can download a maximum of 50 documents.
Click
to select documents shown on the page of results you are currently
viewing.
Click a selected check box to add or remove that document from the selection.
Note: Use
to access additional individual items or entire pages that can be used when viewing References.
Click
. The Scopus Document Download Manager will open in a new browser window.
If you're searching Scopus from the CrossFire Beilstein Database, an image of the chemical database, reaction, or structure that relates to your search results may display. Click the image to open a new browser window with further information.
You can create a Search or Author Citation alert from your search results. The type of alert you can create depends on the type of search you conducted:
Search alerts notify you by e-mail of newly loaded documents in Scopus that match your search query. A Search Alert can be created from most Basic or Advanced search results.
Author Citation alerts notify you by e-mail when an author or group of matched authors is cited on Scopus. An Author Citation Alert can be created by clicking Cited By on an Author Details page.
To create an alert, click Save as Alert. Either the Save a Search Alert page or the Add an Author Citation Alert page will display.
Scopus results pages display the total number of documents found for your search at the top of the page. You can navigate to other results for your search using the
buttons.
Note: The
buttons will display only if there are additional pages.
A maximum of 200 results displays per page. (The default is 20). You can modify the number of results shown per page by changing the Display option at the bottom of the page.

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