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Empower researcher career-building and network development

Whether you are focused on mentorship, career-building, or tracking research impact, explore these curated tools and resources that help researchers succeed in career and research goals.

Scopus Author Profile overview

Researcher collaboration & networking

Find the most impactful authors in the fields that interest you, so you can effortlessly search for potential mentors or collaborators.

Webinar: Build your network, advance your career with Scopus

Discover the tools in Scopus that help you showcase a strong (and accurate) profile and expand your personal career network.

Watch this webinar and learn how to leverage Scopus to advance your career.

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Look up author profiles on Scopus

Looking for your next collaborator or want to see how your own profile looks? Use this free author lookup tool to search for any author in Scopus and to view indicators like number of citations, publication history and h-index.

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Search for relevant researchers based on your interests

Scopus Researcher Discovery allows users to conduct a keyword search to easily find relevant researcher matches and quickly build a view of the individuals contributing to a particular field.

Existing Scopus customers can try this pilot feature today.

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Researcher career-building & showcasing work

Gather insights into the reach and influence of your research, helping to build a reliable body of work to support your career goals.

Demonstrate your reputation and your research impact globally

Use your Scopus Author Profile to attract other researchers for networking and collaboration or to inform funding and promotion proposals. Make sure your profile showcases all your information and research accomplishments accurately.

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Resources for librarians

Help your researchers showcase themselves and enhance the impact and reach of their work.

Scopus author profile tips from a research impact librarian

A research librarian shares visual examples of how she searches, refines, compares and understands Scopus research impact metrics.

Find out how

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UNMC case study

At the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), librarians educate students and researchers to not only optimize their own Scopus author profiles, but also leverage others to enhance their career, funding and collaboration opportunities.

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Elsevier Libguides: Scopus Author Profiles

Get more detailed answers about how Scopus Author Profiles work and how to leverage them for supporting your researcher community. You can also learn more about affiliation profiles and metrics on Scopus.

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Using Scopus to guide researchers: Work with researchers to explore common questions like “Where should I publish?”, “Is my research novel?”, “How do I stand out?”

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