Search health databases

Learn how to use the major health databases to find the best available evidence for your research

Introduction to Scopus

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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. It is a multidisciplinary database, meaning that it delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in many fields, including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Use Scopus to:

search for articles, conference papers, books and book chapters across a variety of topics;
find peer-reviewed journal articleson your topic.

Use the links below to navigate to a range of tutorials by Elsevier on how to undertake basic and advanced searches on Scopus, plus analyse search results, and more:

Video: Advanced searching in Scopus using an evidence-based veterinary medicine example (7m 12s)

Watch the video below to learn how to conduct an advanced search using Scopus. The subject matter is using a veterinary medicine logic grid, however the principles are applicable to all advanced searching across disciplines.

Scopus videos

Scopus Searching Made Easy
How to search Scopus without getting a headache (3:02 mins).
Scopus - selecting and saving references
This video shows you how to select and save references from your Scopus search results list. (6:20)
Scopus Citation Searching - from one article to many
This video shows you how to use a single reference to find hundreds of articles using citation searching in Scopus. (5:51 mins)

Additional resources

Using Scopus: Basic search
Scopus Citation Searching
How to turn off smart (curly) quotes in Word
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.