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Scopus
- Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is a journal indexing and abstracting database with citation metrics from Elsevier. It covers international research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities (with a growing coverage of book chapters).
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Scopus is a global abstracting and indexing multidisciplinary database with a strong focus on STEM research. It is an efficient way to search the literature in support of dissertations & literature reviews.
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What can I do in Scopus?
- Rank results cited highest to lowest (to see which papers are cited the most by other papers)
- See which authors are publishing the most on this topic (may indicate they are the key experts in this field)
- Limit results to your subject (particularly useful for applied topics)
- Limit results to 'review articles' to see other authors' literature reviews (to see examples of critical evaluation of primary studies; plus a long list of primary studies in the references)
- See a timeline of literature on a topic by clicking 'Analyze results' - useful for topics where a certain phrase was coined; material was invented; or discovery was made and you want to find out when the research began in this area.
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