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Search health databases
Learn how to use the major health databases to find the best available evidence for your research
Scopus is a core multidisciplinary database, the largest abstracts database of peer-reviewed literature including journals, books and conference proceedings. It also offers citation analysis/bibliometrics for authors and articles. Coverage mostly from 1960.
The interactive exercise below demonstrates how to access Scopus, search for documents, use the filters, sort search results, and access articles.
This quick reference guide demonstrates how to search in Scopus using phrase searching, truncation and synonyms; navigate search results; refine search results and check full text options
Citation searching, using one article to find other similar ones, is also known as 'snowballing' or 'pearling'. This quick reference guide explains the concepts of forward and backward citation chaining, and demonstrates how to view the references of articles (backwards citation chaining or searching), and view 'cited by' articles (forwards citation chaining or searching).
Pasting search strategies from Word into Scopus will cause problems if your Word document uses curly quotation marks. Follow these instructions to turn off curly quotes.