This is a step-by-step guide on how to generate a citation report from Scopus.
Please note that a Scopus citation report is not required for NTU's Promotion and Tenure (PT).
If you need any help in generating a Scopus citation report yourself, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Instructions for Accessing and Updating Your Scopus Author Profile
Click here to access Scopus.
Register or sign in to your Scopus account using your NTU e-mail address.
Note: Signing in is required to merge author profiles and create a saved list.
After you are signed in, navigate to the 'Authors' tab (highlighted in red in the image) to search for your author profile.
If your ORCID iD is correctly linked to your publications you can:
5. If you do not have an ORCID iD:
6. In the Author Results section, select the relevant author profile(s). If multiple profiles are listed:
7. Use the Author Feedback Wizard to:
8. For detailed guidance, click here to view a quick video tutorial from Scopus on how to correct your author profile.
Note: Changes are not immediate and will not appear in Scopus or within the Author Feedback Wizard until the processing is complete.
1. Access the Authors Tab
2. Select Your Author Profile
3. Review Associated Documents
4. Filter Document Types
5. Select Publications Belonging to You
6. Save Publications to a List
7. Create or Add to a List
8. Confirm Saved Documents
9. Access Your Saved List
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Removing a publication (document) from the Document Saved List
10. To remove a document:
Adding a Missing Publication to the Saved List
11. To add a missing publication:
For detailed guidance, click here to view a quick video tutorial from Scopus on how to correct your author profile.
Please note that changes for this process are not immediate and will not appear in Scopus or within the Author Feedback Wizard until the processing is complete.
You can generate a citation report using one of the following methods:
From the Author Profile
From the Saved List
1. Access the Authors Tab
2. Review Your Author Profile
3. Edit Your Profile
4. Generate a Citation Report
Retrieve Your Publications
Ensure Accuracy
Select All Titles
Export the List
5. Open your downloaded CSV file and retrieve the EIDs on the last column.
6. Go to Scopus Search and click on 'Advanced document search'.
7. Enter query string - EID( ) and place all your retrieved EIDs between the brackets, separating them with an "OR" boolean operator. (See image below for example.)
Tip: If you have many EIDs to key, you can use MS Excel's concatenate function - =CONCAT(A1, " OR "). Then apply the function to the entire column.
8. Check 'All' then click on 'Citation Overview' to review the citation trends and the overall impact of your publications.
For additional guidance, there is also a video tutorial available on how to generate a citation overview from a Saved List. You can watch it here.
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