Track and Envision Your Scholarly Output: Scopus

Scopus Author ID is a unique 11-digit identifier automatically assigned by Elsevier in its ScienceDirect and Scopus products.

Pros of using the Scopus Author ID include:

• A freely-available  Author Lookup tool to obtain up-to-date citation metrics to works in publications indexed by Scopus
• Can export data to ORCiD
• Organized citations in one of the largest, most-comprehensive databases
• Every author on a citation indexed in Scopus is automatically assigned an author ID
• Can associate with ORCiD to manage and merge citations
• Quickly creating h-index and other citation charts
• Seeing who has cited your work
• Easily generating a publications list

Some limitations include:

• Scopus does not thoroughly index nursing journals
• Only citations within Scopus are counted
• The author ID is system-generated, so users must request that items be merged or corrected
• Lack of user profile
• Cannot attach publications that are not indexed in Scopus