Searching for the work of specific authors can be more difficult than expected: there can be multiple authors with the same family name and initials, even within the same research field. An author can also change his or her name (for example after marriage) or change research fields. When looking at the publications of an author, you might miss publications or accidentally include publications authored by another researcher.
Scopus tries to solve this by using the Scopus Author Identifier and by creating author profiles.
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Many authors have similar names. Scopus Author Identifier functionality distinguishes between these names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author. This number is called the Scopus Author Identifier. This identifier is also added to the EUR & Erasmus MC Research Information Portal, the institutional repository of the EUR.
Searching by Scopus Author Identifier is possible in the Advanced Search. You have to use the code AU-ID().
Keep in mind: it’s possible not all publications of an author are assigned to the correct Scopus Author Identifier, you always have to double check! The Scopus Author Identifier uses an algorithm that matches author names based on their affiliation, address, subject area, source title, dates of publication, citations, and co-authors, it’s not handpicked. Scopus has a Author Feedback Wizard, so when you notice mistakes (especially for your own publications!) you can request author detail corrections and have documents assigned to the correct author. You can read more about this in the chapter 'YOU in Scopus'.
In Scopus you can search for publications of an author by using the Document Search and choosing the search field Authors or First author. You can also use the Author search. This is the second tab of the default search screen (Authors). Here you have to enter the last name and the initials or first name of the author. You can add the affiliation name, for example Erasmus University Rotterdam, to limit the number of results. To make this option visible, click + Affiliation. It's also possible to search by ORCID iD.
Scopus will show a list of authors, with the names, number of publications, H-index, the (last known) affiliation, city and country.
You can mark the name(s), and click Show documents to view the documents. When you click a name, you go to the Author Details, where you can find the Scopus Author Identifier, the ORCID iD of the author (when the researcher has made a link between her ORCID record and Scopus), the number of documents in Scopus, the times cited and the H-index, based on the data in Scopus (so based on articles published from 1970 (if applicable), preprints from SSRN, ArXiv, BioRxiv, ChemRxiv, MedRxiv, TechRxiv and Research Square (when available for the author), Topics from SciVal and a list of co-authors (max. 150).
From the Author Details page you can set an author alert, a notification when a new document of this author is added to Scopus (and linked to this AuthorID). Click the link Set alert at the middle of the screen, to receive an e-mail alert (you need a Scopus account to create this alert).
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