Scopus

Citations and cited reference searching in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

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Coverage:

Article summaries: 1823 - present. Citation analysis: 1996 - present.

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Description:

Scopus is the largest indexing database at UMKC. It includes 18,000 journals and conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities with worldwide coverage. It is our major database for cited reference searching: finding out how and by whom articles have been cited. Although the database indexes journals back to 1823, the citation analysis of these journals only goes back to 1996.

For help using Scopus for cited reference searching, see our LibGuide: Publishing and Being Cited.

Scopus also includes:

435 million scientific websites
23 million patents (from 5 major patent offices)
100% coverage of Medline titles
Historical material published by American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, and the Elsevier and Springer/Kluwer archives.

Features:

Cited reference searching with the Citation Tracker, Author Search to help track a researcher's impact, Affiliation Search to help track an organization's research output, Feedback to manage the record of your own research, Journal Analyzer to compare journal impact, Alerts (including citation alerts), Truncation *

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Unlimited

Vendor:

Elsevier

Provided by:

MERLIN Consortium

Description updated:

September 9, 2009 -- RP

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