Citations

As of this week, Scopus has added 5 million pre-1996 records including over 93 million references to the database. This has been done in two ways: by adding pre-1996 cited references to existing articles in Scopus and by adding article back files, including their cited references, coming from archives from various publishers, going back to 1970.

This milestone is the result of the ongoing Scopus Cited Reference Expansion Program initiated in March 2014 that aims to include cited references in

Recently a librarian posted to @Scopus on Twitter about gathering statistics on an author’s citation trends. Here’s a way you can use tools on the Scopus author profile page to determine which sources an author cites most frequently.

1. Perform an <Author Search> and search for the author of interest
2. Find the correct author from the results list and click on the author’s name
3. From the author’s detail page, find the ‘Author History’ box on the right and click on the number next to <References>
4. This

We are happy to announce that the Scopus Conference Expansion Program (CEP) is now complete, exceeding its original goal with over 1,000 conference titles, 6,000 conference events and 400,000 conference papers newly covered in both Scopus and Ei Compendex. The Conference Expansion Program, which ran from 2011-2014, consistently focused on disciplines where the communication of findings at international meetings is especially important, primarily Computer Science and Engineering, boosting the

In March, we launched the Cited Reference Expansion Program to include cited references in the Scopus database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. Our goal is to expand the ability for users to perform long-term, extensive bibliometric and historic trend analyses – and enhance h-indices for those researchers who published pre-1996.

As of November 1st we started re-indexing content and pre-1996 archives with cited references are now loaded on a daily basis.