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Finding research information
Universities need research intelligence to properly allocate resources for research planning and support. A university may wish to understand the fields in which their affiliated researchers are making an impact, where expertise is concentrated, what kind of funding exists, and where it is coming from.
Institutions also need to understand their research strengths and weaknesses, as well as the institution-to-institution or institution-to-country collaborative networks and partnerships that their researchers are a part of. Bibliometric data is not a substitute for deep knowledge of the researchers at your institution but can provide data points to supplement planned or existing initiatives.
Some key areas that administrators may be interested in are-
- institution-to-institution collaboration
- institutional-country networks
- research output by research group or department
- research information on key research fields
The Scopus database can provide data points to help assess these areas.
Scopus Advanced document search allows you to construct meaningful search strings to pull out data needed for research intelligence decisions. The search string below will give results for all documents that have author affiliations containing both Waseda University and Indiana University Bloomington. The search string uses field codes (AF-ID for the Affiliation ID of a particular institution) and Boolean operators (AND (LIMIT-TO)) to extract the desired information.
AF-ID ("Waseda University" 60023462 ) AND (LIMIT-TO (AF-ID, "Indiana University Bloomington" 60021121 ))
To find an institution's profile in Scopus, choose the Affiliation search and enter your search terms into the 'Search affiliations' box. Auto-generated options will appear for you to select from.
This will take you to the institution's affiliation profile page, where you can find the Affiliation ID, name formats, affiliation hierarchy, and other useful information. Record the Affiliation ID to construct queries in Scopus Advanced document search.
Institutions may be interested in the metrics that can represent the work, activities, and collaborations of their researchers that are happening across the globe.
You can construct a query using Scopus Advanced document search to see these interactions.
The search string below will give results for all documents that have author affiliations containing both Indiana University Bloomington in the Affiliation ID metadata, and France in the affiliation country metadata. Remember to retrieve the institution's Affiliation ID from the Institutional Profile Page.
AFFILCOUNTRY (france) AND (LIMIT-TO (AF-ID , "Indiana University Bloomington" 60021121))
Administrators may wish to look at the research output, citations, or funding levels of a group of researchers such as a research lab, department or school. You can build a query in Scopus Advanced document search to view this information using the unique Scopus IDs of each researcher (Field code: AU-ID).
AU-ID ("Fukuyama, Julia A." 34967978400 ) OR AU-ID ( "Huang, Chunfeng" 35487719600) OR AU-ID ( "Mejia, Amanda F." 56215449300) OR AU-ID ( "Womack, Andrew J." 56372953000)
To retrieve a researcher's AU-ID,
- search for an author using their name or ORCID ID (you can also add their affiliated institution to narrow down the results)
- Click on the author name to display their Scopus generated profile;
- The AU-ID is displayed on the author profile page next to their institutional affiliation.
Administrators may wish to assess the impact, reach, or funding sources for a particular group of articles, for research intelligence on a particular subject area, or for research coming out of a particular lab. Scopus Advanced document search allows you to search for this information.
DOI({10.1038/s42005-022-00946-8}) OR DO ({10.1038/s41467-022-30752-3}) OR DOI({10.1038/s41746-022-00610-z}) OR DOI({10.1007/s41781-021-00079-7}) OR DOI({10.1007/s41781-021-00062-2}) OR DOI({10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137077}) OR DOI({10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137066}) OR DOI({10.1038/s41586-022-04624-1}) OR DOI ({10.1103/PhysRevD.105.112001}) OR DOI ({10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023106})
The query syntax is slightly different from previous queries to ensure that only information on these specific articles is retrieved (excluding metadata from other articles which may use any of these articles as references). One example is when an administrator is looking for funding information for the research output of a department or lab within a specific time frame. In that scenario, the administrator needs to be sure they are only retrieving the funding information for the specific group of articles.
Once you have a list of search results in Scopus you can refine, export, and analyze your search results. You can also save your searches and set alerts to keep track of research information.
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From the left-hand menu you can:
- Search within your results
- Select only open-access documents (learn more about the Open Access filter below)
- Use filters to limit or exclude results from your search, including, but not limited to:
- Access Type
- Publication Year
- Keyword
- Affiliation
- Author Name
- Subject Area
You can filter by Open Access types, including:
- Gold open: Documents that are in journals which only publish open access
- Hybrid Gold: Documents that are in journals which provide authors the choice of publishing open access
- Bronze: Published version of record or manuscript accepted for publication; the publisher has chosen to provide temporary or permanent free access
- Green: Published version or manuscript accepted for publication, available at repository
Some content and images taken from Searching Scopus - Scopus LibGuide - LibGuides at Elsevier
You can export results by selecting the search results you want to export, or selecting all results, and clicking on the drop-down arrow next to Export. A screen will pop up that allows you to select the details you want to export, like citation information, bibliographic information, abstract & keywords, funding details, and other information about chemicals, manufacturers, and conferences.
Click the Analyze search results button to gain further insights into any list of document results. This will take you to a dashboard showing visualizations of the search results by year, source, author, affiliation, country/territory, document type, subject area, and funding sponsor.
Some content and images taken from Searching Scopus - Scopus LibGuide - LibGuides at Elsevier
You can also use modifiers to your queries in Scopus Advanced document search to refine your results at the point of searching. The example below limits the search for publications by a group of researchers, to output published in the years 2018-2022. Feel free to contact us if you need assistance with structuring queries.
AU-ID ( "Alderson, Arthur S." 57204344857 ) OR AU-ID ( "Allendorf, Keera" 15841793700 ) OR AU-ID ( "Barber, Jennifer S." 7402349135 ) OR AU-ID ( "Benard, Stephen" 16443861900 ) OR AU-ID ( "Brooks, Clem" 7403152599 ) OR AU-ID ( "McCrory Calarco, Jessica" 57194769740 ) OR AU-ID ( "Cha, Youngjoo" 15080570700 ) OR AU-ID ("Schultz, Michael" 57195772907) AND (LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2022) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2021) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2020) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2019) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBYEAR, 2018))
Scopus Advanced document search provides Pre-generated queries for research output that addresses UN Sustainable Development Goals. You can find these on the bottom of the left hand column on the Advanced search page.
To see your institution's output you can add the AF-ID field code and the institution's Affiliation ID which can be retrieved from the Institutional profile page.
The below example shows the structure of a query for research output by Indiana University Bloomington affiliated researchers addressing the UN Sustainable Development goal of Quality Education, selected from the Scopus Pre-generated query. You can modify the Pre-generated queries as needed, after selection.
AF-ID ( "Indiana University Bloomington" 60021121 ) AND ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( school OR education OR educational ) AND ( {school attendance} OR {school enrollment} OR {school enrolment} OR {inclusive education} OR {educational inequality} OR {education quality} OR {educational enrolment} OR {educational enrollment} OR {adult literacy} OR {numeracy rate} OR {educational environment} OR {educational access} OR ( {development aid} AND {teacher training} ) OR {early childhood education} OR {basic education} OR {affordable education} OR {educational financial aid} OR {school safety} OR {safety in school} OR ( {learning opportunities} AND ( {gender disparities} OR empowerment ) ) OR ( {learning opportunity} AND ( {gender disparities} OR empowerment ) ) OR {youth empowerment} OR {women empowerment} OR {equal opportunities} OR {child labour} OR {child labor} OR {discriminatory} OR {educational inequality} OR {educational gap} OR ( {poverty trap} AND {schooling} ) OR {special education needs} OR {inclusive education system} OR ( {schooling} AND ( {gender disparities} OR {ethnic disparities} OR {racial disparities} ) ) OR {education exclusion} OR {education dropouts} OR {global citizenship} OR {sustainable development education} OR {environmental education} OR {education policy} OR {educational policies} OR {international education} OR {education reform} OR ( {educational reform} AND {developing countries} ) OR {educational governance} OR ( {developing countries} AND {school effects} ) OR {education expenditure} OR {foreign aid} OR ( {teacher training} AND {developing countries} ) OR {teacher attrition} ) AND NOT {health literacy} ) )
Scopus provides a number of metrics for research assessment, including author and document metrics.
- Citation counts (limited to citations in sources indexed by Scopus)
- Views
- PlumX Metrics - altmetrics such as usage (readers), captures, mentions, and social media (Learn more about PlumX Metrics)
- FWCI - field weighted citation impact which takes into account variations in research and citation behavior across disciplines. It is the number of citations received by a document divided by the expected number of citations for similar documents in the same field of research. (*Note, some granting agencies require FWCI for researchers. This metric is only available in SciVal, not in Scopus)
- Citation benchmarking - calculates how citations for this article compare with the average for similar articles in the same field.
h-index - The h-index is a measure of the number of publications published (productivity), as well as how often they are cited. The formula to calculate the h-index = the number of publications with a citation number greater than or equal to h. For example, 15 publications cited 15 times or more, is a h-index of 15. An author's h-index will vary according to the databases providing the metric as each source curates or indexes different publications and citation counts depend on the publications indexed. The h-index should not be used as a sole metric of scholarly impact, nor should it be used as a direct measure of quality. The h-index should not be used to rank authors who are in different disciplines or those at different stages of their careers.
My h-index in Scopus
My h-index in Google Scholar
