

The market for multidisciplinary citation databases is dominated by Web of Science and Scopus. Want to know more? Visit the Scopus Blog, Try the redesigned Scopus Page! Scopus is working on a new lay out, you can try it yourself. TIP! To return from the result page to your Advanced Search query builder, click on the Scopus logo in the left top corner of your screen. Click Show results to perform your search. Click on the Combine query icon: (above your search history), check the boxes of the lines you want to combine and choose your operator (AND, OR, AND NOT). You can also type search queries on separate lines and then combine these lines in your search history at the bottom of the page. You can refine your results by using the options offered to you in the left hand column (for example year of publication, language or publication type). Type your search terms, combined with the correct operators (for example AND, OR, W/x, etc) and click 'Search'. Select the fieldcode you want to use by typing in the first letter (choose your fields from the list in the right hand column). On the Advanced Search page you can use the 'query builder' to build and perform more systematic and extended searches. Visit for more information the Scopus tutorial about analysing journals. You can also compare multiple journals: follow the steps above and click on 'compare sources' (right top corner of the screen).Scopus content coverage: gives the amount of documents published and a citation overview per year.CiteScore Rank & Trend gives information on how the journal is ranked within its subject area.SNIP= Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the serial’s subject field.Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing serial. SJR= SCImago Journal Rank measures weighted citations received by the serial.CiteScore: CiteScore measures average citations received per document published in the serial.You will find information per journal on: Click on the journal title to see the journal details.On top of your list of search results you can choose to export your list to an excel-document or make a list of your own ('Save to source list' (account required).Click 'Find sources' to start searching.Search by subject area, title, publisher or ISSN (or a combination). You can refine your search in the left column menu (e.g.only open-access journals, journals from the first quartile, conference proceedings, etc.). Click 'Apply to confirm your choices.
