Scopus Search Tips  

Scopus is a multi-disciplinary citation database with strong coverage in the sciences.

Clicking the Find It icon displayed on an article citation will link you to the full-text (if available). A large percentage of the tiles will be available in the Electronic Journal Center. 

{brackets} - around a group of words will retrieve articles with an exact match

"quotation marks" - around words will retrieve articles with a loose match

? - use a question mark in place of a letter to find alternative spelling (ex: analy?e)

* - use an asterisk in place of many letters to find word variants (ex: behavio*)

Link your search words/phrases with

• AND - between two keywords will narrow/reduce number of articles found
• OR - between two keywords will expand/increase number of articles found
• AND NOT - between two keywords will exclude all articles containing the second keyword

Use the following to indicate how close two search words should be in relation to each other.

PRE/n - the first word must precede the second word by a specified number of words (n).

W/n - the words must be within a specified number of words (n). 

Examples

pain W/15 morphine finds articles in which "pain" and "morphine" are no more than 15 words apart

behavior PRE/3 disturbances finds articles in which "beahvior" precedes "disturbances" by three or fewer words.