Promote: Author metrics

On Scopus the Author search helps you find information about publications by a specific person on the Scopus database.

Follow these steps to search for an author

• On Scopus click the ‘Search’ tab along the top banner.
• Click Authors
• You can enter the author’s last name, initials, first name, affiliation, and / or ORCID.
• Click the magnifying glass to search
• After selecting the correct author and the list of documents an further analysis of the documents can be seen

Further information on working with author search results in Scopus is available at the support center.

Begin in the overview module:

• Click on Researchers and Groups along the side panel.
• Find either a single author or create a group of authors by selecting the + Researchers and Groups.
• Once you have selected the researcher a summary of their work will display in the right panel.

Although SciVal uses Scopus citation data, an author's research metrics may differ in each database if the user does not make sure that both databases are searching the same date ranges.
 

SciVal draws its data from Scopus.

If you're interested in knowing the top 10 authors in a field, using the Analyze tool in Scopus is sufficient. However, if you wish to see ALL authors, SciVal has an upper limit of displaying the top ~500 authors

To find top authors, sources etc. publishing on a topic

1. Click on Trends along the top banner.

2. In Topics and Research Areas, use a pre-defined topic OR search and define a new topic.

1. In Trends

2. Select the Topic

3. Click on Authors

4. Select Table view

5. Select all authors

 The Author List provides the following author metrics for each author:

• scholarly output
• views count (citations viewed on Scopus)
• field Weighted Citation (higher scores are better)
• citation Count (number of times cited) 

clicking on each author displays further metrics options.

7. Click on the small red arrow next to each metric to SORT authors by that metric.

8.. Export results and PDF/Print or Save as a CSV or XML file.

• You will only find an author profile if the author has set their GS Profile themselves.
• Search Google Scholar for an author.
  
• Click on the Author link provided.
• View GS metrics for the author (these metrics will look different from the ones you see either in Scopus or Web of Science).
  

An author's h-index attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

The h-index is based on the highest number of papers included that have had at least the same number of citations. e.g. a h-index of 8 indicates that at least 8 of the author's articles have each received at least 8 citations.

The h-index can vary between databases, as the set of citations they are using to calculate the metric can be different.

The h5-index is based upon data from the last completed 5 years e.g. when selecting 2016, the h5-index will be for 2012-2016.