Using Scopus to analyze an overview of a set of citations is useful for viewing the citation trend for a set of documents, finding all publications citing a specific document (or set of documents), and discovering the overall impact of publications in a research area of interest. These 5 easy steps will help you to create a citation overview in just minutes:

1. After running a Scopus search narrow down your results the best you can, ideally to less than 2,000 records.
2. Select what you want included in your analysis. You can choose to include specific documents, or include all results from a given page (‘Select page‘) or  the entire results list (‘Select all‘). Once you’ve made your selections, click the ‘View Citation Overview’ link.
3. The Citation Overview tool will display the citation information for each document you selected from your results list. Citations from the current year, along with the 4 preceding years, are automatically included in the table. If desired, you can adjust which years to display.
4. You can also further modify the table by choosing whether to exclude self-citations or citations from books, in addition to specifying how you want documents sorted.
5. Now you can begin studying the information and continue manipulating the chart to help pinpoint key research you want to investigate further, or use the information to identify trends in a particular research area.

Ask us if you would like further assistance with analyzing citation trends in your area of interest or research focus. You can also watch the pre-recorded webcast from Elsevier on using Scopus’ analysis tools (33 minutes).

Take the following reference as an example:

• Cheong, H., Wu, J., Gonzales, L. K., Guttentag, S. H., Thompson, C. B., & Lindsten, T. (January 01, 2014). Analysis of a lung defect in autophagy-deficient mouse strains. Autophagy, 10, 1, 45-56.

Look to the information on the right hand side of the page. There you will find a link for the number of times the paper has been cited (9 times in this case). If you click on the hyperlinked number of times cited, you will be brought to a list of the citing publications (those papers that have cited this one). From here you can browse and filter the list, or export to EndNote (and other bibliographic management tools/formats).

If you prefer to generate some visual representations of the citation network, you can analyze the results or create a citation report of the cited references (again, links on the right hand side of the page). Note: the citation network for this paper is limited to the world of Web of Science—it does not extend further than those citations indexed in this particular database.

We can help with cited reference searching and special bibliometric analysis projects, just ask us!

Whether you have an ORCID iD or not, the ORCID@MSK page can provide you with lots of useful information. Our FAQ page might even be able to answer some of your questions without having to search on your own or contact us. Questions like: Is ORCID just for articles?; When will I use the ORCID identifier?; Who manages my ORCID record?; How does Synapse work with ORCID?

Here are some additional blog posts related to ORCID for further reading:

• ORCID@MSK – New Library Service Supporting Researchers’ Scholarly Workflow
• ORCID IDs Are Now Being Indexed in PubMed
• Keep your Scopus Author Profile Accurate with ORCID

If you’re new to ORCID@MSK and would like to learn more about how the Library supports the ORCID initiative, visit our informational page. You can also contact us in a number of ways for assistance.