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CITATION METRICS WORKSHOP – ADVANCED SEARCHING & TECHNIQUES FOR SCOPUS Prepared on March 2018 by Bibliometric Team, NUS Libraries.

Search Techniques for Non-Indexed Works in Scopus

Steps Technique Page

1 - 10 Advanced Citation Searching of Non-Indexed Works (Searching of Reference List of Citing Articles)

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11 - 14 Searching for Citations to a Name Variant 5 - 6

15 – 19 Searching for Citations to a Specific Work 7 - 8

Scopus – Advanced Citation Searching of Non-Indexed Works (Searching of Reference List of Citing Articles)

1. Under the Document Search tab, search for Swaddiwudhipong S and select Authors in the dropdown list to the right. In the case of other common author names and if necessary, click the + on the right include another line of search parameters.

2. Select the starting year when the author first published in the Date Range (in this case 1977). Click on Search.

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3. Click on ‘View secondary documents’

Secondary documents are extracted from the reference list of documents. Secondary documents are not found in the Scopus databases. These documents could be:

• an article published in a journal that is not indexed in Scopus.

• a book, a thesis, patent or another type of publication that is not indexed in Scopus

• a reference that contains incorrect or missing information and therefore cannot be linked to a Full Record in Scopus database. It is most likely a variation of another cited reference that is linked to a Full Record.

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4. At the left panel, mouse over the Author Name section and click on View more.

5. By default, author names are sorted by number of results (descending order). Click on the down arrow beside “#

of results” and select “S” from the list. This will display all the author last names that starts with “S”.

6. Click the checkboxes next to Swaddiwudhipong, and Swaddiwudhipong, S. to gather his possible name variants. Click on Limit to.

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7. Select all results and click on Export.

8. Select the option you wish to export these documents (e.g. CSV Excel). Click the Export button.

9. Save the file. This will save a list of documents by the author in an Excel compatible format.

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10. Open the saved file in Excel, sort the list by title, review the list of records and delete the ones not written by the author, but were retrieved. Sum the Cited by column for the remaining records.

To further reduce the results set, at the Scopus search results, additional limits may be applied for Source Title and Year, followed by clicking on Limit.

Scopus –Searching for Citations to a Name Variant

11. Due to the inconsistencies in publishing, it may be necessary to determine citations to individual works using a name variant.

E.g. Journal article Ang TP, Wee TSA, Chin WS Three-dimensional self-assembled monolayer (3D SAM) of n-alkanethiols on copper nanoclusters JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 108 (30): 11001-11010 JUL 29 2004

12. Under the advanced search, choose field codes from the right panel:

• Under Authors, choose ‘Author(AUTH)’ and type “Wee t s a” (with quotes) • Enter AND • Under References, choose ‘Reference’ and type chem.

The final query string should look something like this [ AUTH("Wee t s a") AND REF(chem) ]. Click on Search.

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13. The Scopus record of this article is displayed. Click on View secondary documents.

14. This retrieves 3 results with 1 citation each, arising from incorrect information used during referencing.

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Scopus –Searching for Citations to a Specific Work

15. As there are limitations to the Refine Results function, it may be necessary to determine citations by looking at individual works.

E.g. Book Singapore: A Developmental City State / by Martin Perry, Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh. New York : Wiley, 1997.

16. Under the Document search tab, search for yeoh b and select Authors from the dropdown list on the right. Click on the “+” to add another search parameter

17. Enter “Singapore a developmental city state” (with quotes) and select References from the dropdown list. Click search.

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18. A list of records is displayed. Click on View secondary documents.

19. Examine the Source Title and there are six records with a total of 184 citations that match the author’s book.