Gaining access to Scopus

1. Go to Proxy Website from your Institution Account

2. Visit the Scopus website

3. Log in with Official Lecturer or Student account

Obtaining the metadata for visualization

Documents include journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, articles in press and data papers. Follow the steps below to learn how to perform a basic document search:

• Enter your search terms into the Search documents box [1]

  • By default, Scopus will search in the Article title, Abstract and Keywords of documents

• You can specify in which fields to search using the drop-down menu [2]

• Use the +Add search field [3] option to add additional fields

• Each new search field is combined using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT [4]

• Select Add date range [5] to either select a publication date range or to specify an “added to Scopus” date range

• To see a complete list of advanced field codes, select Advanced document search [6]

• Your Search History is displayed with the option to Set Alert [7] to notify you by email of new search results in Scopus that match that search

• Select More [8] to save an important query or to delete a query

• To combine queries from your history, choose two or more searches and select Combine queries [9]

Editing your search, saving your search and setting alerts

• Saving your search and setting up alerts [1]

• Quickly review or edit your search from the top of the page [2]

• By default, the search results are sorted by date. Use the ‘Sort by’ drop-down menu to sort in a different order. [3]

• Refine your results [4] From the left-hand menu, you can:

  • Search within your results

  • Use filters to limit or exclude results from your search, including, but not limited to:

    • Author name

    • Open Access type (learn more about the Open Access filter below)

    • Year

    • Subject area

    • Publication stage

    • Keyword

    • Affiliation

    • Funding sponsor

Export selected search results [5] to various file types, reference managers and platforms:

• Mendeley

• RefWorks

• SciVal

• RIS format (for import into EndNote

• CSV

• BibTeX

• Plain Text

In order for VOSviewer to visualize the desired information, we need to select the Scopus fields carefully.

Minimum checked Scopus’ field for VosViewer visualization are: Author(s), Author keywords, Affiliations, Indexed keywords, OR Include references.

Below are some examples of correlation between selected Scopus’ fields and activated type and unit of analysis in VOSviewer. Please pay attention that NOT all possibilities are listed below.

Obtaining the metadata for visualization in Pubmed

Beside Scopus, Pubmed also provides a menu for exporting metadata. This makes it easier for us to visualize. The steps are as follows

• After you have the desired query results, click on Save button