Follow an Author’s Citation Trends in Scopus

Want to determine which sources a particular author cites most often? Follow these easy steps in Scopus to analyze citation counts from an author’s total publications. It could be a useful way of keeping up with the literature in your area of interest…

  1. Perform an ‘Author Search’ and search for the author of interest
  2. Find the correct author from the results list and click on the author’s name
  3. From the author’s detail page, find the ‘Author History’ box on the right and click on the number next to ‘References’
  4. This opens the search results window and lists the references the author has cited across his or her publications
  5. Click on ‘Analyze search results’ and open the ‘Source’ tab
  6. Here you’ll not only see a list of the top sources the author references (and number of documents from each source), but you can also use the graph to view even more details, or create a chart in which you can compare journal metric values
  7. You can also export, print and email the information from the charts

Take a look at the video to view these steps in action. You can also ask us if you have any questions about citation metrics.