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Introducing Searching & Browsing of Cited References:
New Release Makes Life Easier for Librarians and Researchers

Researchers are constantly finding ways to effectively and easily find information they need for literature research that helps them to evaluate research output, measure performance and monitor trends. Scopus helps researchers reach this goal of increased research productivity by enhancing the researcher’s workflow with a new feature which will make it easier to use, search and find information on Scopus: Search Cited References “More” tab and Checking Accumulated Forward and Backward Citations.

Search cited references with the “More” tab:

With the new enhancement, Scopus allows you to spend more time on your research and less time on searching references. Every search will now feature an additional results tab – marked “More” – which displays the references that match a given query in a single overview.

For example, the “More” tab provides users with results derived from the references section(s) in Scopus’ documents but not covered within Scopus such as books, theses and older articles. As a result users have a significantly expanded search result with up to approximately 50 million additional references, and wherever possible, the ability to link through to relevant full-text sources.

Checking accumulated forward and backward citations

Cited reference browsing allows you to also find articles that cite a previously published article. It is a means of tracing a particular research forward and backward in time, by following a citation trail to see how work has developed and evolved in a focused area of research.

This new browsing functionality allows you to:

• view all citation references in one overview;
• find all references used by a particular author:
• find out who is citing an author’s work, or in which journals their work is cited; and,
• see which sources are used.

Click here to learn more about this exciting enhancement.