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Scopus Author ID

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The Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes between names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author.

Scopus Author Identifier uses an algorithm that matches author names based on their affiliation, address, subject area, source title, dates of publication citations, and co-authors.

Researchers are automatically assigned a Scopus Author ID when they publish in a journal indexed by Scopus.

Search for your Scopus Author ID. 

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If you have more than one Scopus Author Identifier, you should request to merge the multiple IDs into one entry.

SCOPUS : Searching for a Specific Author

Finding Citing References for an Author 

To run a search for an author:

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1.Go to Scopus, click on Search. Select Authors from the Documents Search form to open the Author search form.

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2.  Enter the "Author Last name" and "Author first name" in the form and click Search.  

3. Select the relevant entries. There may be several entries that represent a particular author's body of work. Choose all that are appropriate and click View Citation Overview. In the search results, you may also click on an author's name in a record to open a specific author's profile page. 

3. Scopus will display a Citation overview for the cited references to the author's articles. The Author  h-index (an author impact metric) for articles tracked by Scopus will be displayed at the top of the screen. 

Note: Scopus citations  only go back to 1996. If you want cited references for pre-1996 articles, you will have to search some other tools identified in this Guide.

scopus citation overview with "Author h-index: 28" and the date range highlighted