The Author details page provides information about author research areas, publishing and citation information, name variants, the author Scopus identifier number, ORCID (if available), and other information regarding author publication history.

From an Author search results page, select an author name to view the Author details page.

Author details and publishing information

The author details and publishing information section contains information about the author name and name formats, affiliated organizations, and select metrics.

Author information

The Author details page provides the author name, associated affiliations, Scopus Author ID information, and other name formats.

To view other name formats, affiliation history, and subject areas, select 'Show all author info'.

Scopus Author Identifier

Some authors have similar names, or their names can appear differently in various publications. The Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes between these names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author. For example, an author may appear as Lewis, M.; Lewis, M. J.; and Lewis, Michael in different publications, or there may be two authors named John Smith.

For more information, see What is the Scopus Author Identifier?

Connect to ORCID

When your user profile is linked to its unique ORCID, viewers can see the link to that ORCID on the Author details page or search for your profile using that number.

Select 'Connect to ORCID' to add your author profile details to ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier).

For more information, see How do I import author details to ORCID?

Edit profile

You can request corrections if you see an error with an author profile using the Author Feedback Wizard. The Author Feedback Wizard allows you to:

• Correct author details
• Add or remove documents associated with the profile
• Merge/split profiles

Select 'Edit profile' to launch the Author Feedback Wizard. For more information, see How do I use the Author Feedback Wizard?

Set alert

You can create an email alert to be notified when Scopus publishes new documents by an author or to notify you when another document cites an author’s work.

1. Select 'Set alert'to access the Set Alert function.
   Note: You can edit the name of the search, email address(es), the frequency, and email format of the alert.
2. Select 'Set document alert'. A confirmation email is sent to the specified addresses.

For more information, see How do I create, edit and delete alerts?

Save to list

Select 'Save to list' to save the author details to a saved author list.

For more information, see How do I manage my Saved lists?

View potential author matches

The View potential author matches feature helps you to verify that you have the correct author.

Select 'View potential author matches' to show similar profiles, based on your search criteria.

For more information, see How do I create a group of authors?

Export profile to SciVal

Select 'Export profile to SciVal' to export information from the author details page to SciVal. The SciVal Researchers and Groups page opens for your SciVal account, displaying the exported author information.

Analyze author output

You can evaluate author performance based on the number of publications, the h-index, the number of times they have been cited, and the author's most contributed topics.

View h-graph

The h-index displays the publishing information for a single author, multiple authors, or a group of selected documents. The h-index is based on the highest number of papers included that have had at least the same number of citations.

Select 'View h-graph' to open the Analyze author output page. The h-graph tab is opened with the author's calculated h-index. For more information see the Analyze author output page.

For more information about the h-graph, see How can I use an h-graph?

Document & citations trends graph

The Document & citations trends graph is a summary graph displaying an author’s publications and total annual citations. This graph provides a quick way to see the recent productivity of an author.

Graph details:

• Shows the number of documents published and the number of citations.
• Appears only for authors having more than 1 year of data.
• Shows data points only for years in which the author has data.
• The x-axis shows the lowest and highest number determined by the author's data. For example, if the most citations an author received in a year was 2, then the highest number is 2.
• For more details about the data for a year, move your cursor over the data point.
• To view a documents/citing documents results list for a year, select the corresponding data point.

Analyze author output

The Analyze author output page provides a visual graph of document, h-index, citations, co-author information, and other functions.

Select 'Analyze author output' to view and analyze the publishing output for an author or a group of matches authors.

For more information, see How do I use the Analyze Author Output function?

View citation overview

The citation overview displays the documents for an author details page and includes the number of times the documents were cited by publication year. You can view, print, or export a list of the citing documents.

Select 'Citation overview' to view the citation overview for an author.

For more information, see How do I create and use a citation overview?

Documents tab

The author page lists all the author documents.

Export all

Select 'Export all' to export author document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?

Save all to list

You can save author documents to a list in Scopus.

Select 'Save all to list' to create a new list or add to an existing list.

For more information, see How do I add a document to a list?

View list in search results format

You can view author documents, cited by documents, and co-authors in search results format.

1. Select 'View all in search results format' to open a results list.
2. Select the desired criteria to refine the list.

For more information, see How do I work with document search results?

View references

Select 'View [X] References' to view a list of all documents an author has used for their publications. The list includes all document citation identification numbers plus the list of documents within a Scopus document results list.

For more information, see How do I work with author search results?

Set document alert

When viewing the contents of the Documents tab, you can create an email alert to be notified when Scopus publishes new documents by an author.

1. Select 'Set document alert' to access the Set Alert function.
   Note: You can edit the name of the search, target email address(es), the frequency of emails you receive, email format, and select the status (active or inactive) of the alert.
2. Select 'Save'. You will receive a confirmation email.

For more information, see How do I create, edit and delete alerts?

View author position details

The Author position information is derived from documents published in the last 10 years and assumes that the first author listed on the document is the First author, the last author listed is the Last author, and all other authors are Co-authors. The order of authors after the First author typically indicates the level of contribution, with the second author contributing less than the first, and so on. In some cases, there may be multiple first authors, typically known as co-first authors, who have contributed equally to the work. Currently, Scopus cannot distinguish co-first authors or account for alphabetical author listings in some publications.

Select 'View author position details' to view a flyout containing information about the role of the author among their document output. Conversely, select an individual accordion to view the author position details of each position.

Author position	Description
First author	The author with the most significant contribution is listed first. The First author metrics show the percentage of documents the author is the first one in the document, the total number of documents, the number of average citations for the documents, and the average Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI). In some cases, there may be multiple first authors, typically known as co-first authors, who have contributed equally to the work. Currently, Scopus cannot distinguish co-first authors or account for alphabetical author listings in some publications.
Last author	The last author listed is the supervising author or principal investigator. The Last author metrics show the percentage of documents the author is the last one in the document, the total number of documents, the number of average citations for the documents, and the Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI).
Co-author	A co-author is a contributing author to the document. The Co-author metrics show the percentage of documents the author is in any other position in the document, the total number of documents, the number of average citations for the documents, and the Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI).
Single author	A single author is the sole contributor for a document. The Single author metrics show the percentage of documents the author is the only one in the document, the total number of documents, the number of average citations for the documents, and the Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI).

For more information about FWCI, see What is Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)?

Impact tab

The Impact tab provides an insight into the scholarly impact of researchers to help gauge their influence among the scientific community. The Impact tab displays author metrics and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mapped to documents attributed to the author.

To view the author documents mapped to specific SDG, select '[X] documents' associated with each SDG. For more information about SDGs, see What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

For the applicable metrics, select 'Analyze in SciVal' to view comprehensive researcher metrics in SciVal.

Scopus metric descriptions:

• Collaboration
  • International collaboration: the percentage of documents co-authored with researchers in other countries/regions
  • Academic-Corporate collaboration: the percentage of documents with both academic and corporate affiliations
• Documents in top citation percentiles: percentage of documents in the top 25% most cited documents worldwide
• Documents in top 25% journals by: the percentage of documents in the top 25% journals by CiteScore
• Documents and FWCI: the highly cited publications for entities with a small scholarly output may skew the FWCI. This metric should be used with care when assessing performance. For more information about FWCI, see What is Field-weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)?

Cited by Documents tab

The Cited by [n] Documents tab lists all documents which cite a specific author.

View all in search results format

You have the option to view an author’s documents, cited by documents, and co-authors in search results format.

1. Select 'View all in search results format' to open a results list.
2. Select the desired criteria to refine the list.

For more information, see How do I work with document search results?

Set citation alert

When viewing the Cited by Documents tab, you have the option to create an email alert notifying you when another document cites an author’s work.

1. Select 'Set citation alert'.
2. Enter the name of the alert, email address(es)to which they are sent, and the frequency of the alerts.
3. Select 'Set author citation alert'. You will receive a confirmation email.

For more information, see How do I create a document citation alert?

Export all

Select 'Export all' to export an author’s document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?

Save all to list

You can save an author’s documents to a list in Scopus.

Select 'Save all to list' to create a new list or add to an existing list.

For more information, see How do I add a document to a list?

Preprints tab

A preprint is a non-peer reviewed publication that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Preprints do not affect existing publication and citation metrics in Scopus. Preprints reside on preprint servers and allow for dissemination, laying claim to an idea, and help with collecting feedback prior to journal submission. Scopus covers preprints from 2017 onwards. For detailed information, see What are preprints?

Select the 'Preprints' tab to view a list of Preprint documents.

Export all

Select 'Export all' to export an author’s document information to a selected file type or reference management tool.

For more information, see How do I export documents from Scopus?

Co-authors tab

The author page lists all co-authors of the author. Select the 'Co-Authors' tab to view a list of these co-authors.

Select a co-author name to view Author details page of the co-author.

Topics tab

A topic is a collection of documents with a common interest and is clustered based upon direct citation analysis using document reference lists. Select the 'Topics' tab to view an author's associated topics.

For more information, see What is SciVal's Topic Prominence?

Select a Topic or an Author documents number to open the topic overview.

Awarded Grants tab

An awarded grant is an award, usually financial, given by a funding body to an individual or organization to facilitate a goal or reward performance. For more information, see What are awarded grants?

Select the grant title to open the Awarded Grant overview page.