How do I find most cited articles on Scopus?

Determine the Most Highly Cited Articles for a Journal

1. Access Scopus from the Health Sciences Library homepage. (
2. Use the Document search box.
3. On the left hand side of the results page, scroll to the Source Title section.
4. Under Sort By at the far right, sort by “Cited by” to sort the resulting articles by times cited.

What is the most cited article ever?

The most-cited paper in history is a paper by Oliver Lowry describing an assay to measure the concentration of proteins. By 2014 it had accumulated more than 305,000 citations. The 10 most cited papers all had more than 40,000 citations.

How do you find the most cited articles in a field?

Find an Author’s Most Highly Cited Papers Use the “Basic Search” feature to find all the articles by an author. On the results page, change the “Sort by” box to (upper right of the list) to “Times Cited-Highest to Lowest”; the articles that then appear at the top of the list are the author’s most cited.

How many publications does Scopus have?

36,377 titles
Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

How many citations of a paper is good?

What is a good number of citations? With 10 or more citations, your work is now in the top 24% of the most cited work worldwide; this increased to the top 1.8% as you reach 100 or more citations. Main take home message: the average citation per manuscript is clearly below 10!

Who has the highest number of citation?

Michel Foucault has the highest number of citations which was 985524 , h-index of 292 and i10-index which was1641 .

What is Scopus ranking?

Scopus and SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) score and rank journals that are indexed in Scopus based on citation data. The major measures are: The CiteScore measures average citations received per document published in the journal. A SNIP of more than 1.5 generally indicates a very well-cited journal.

What is Scopus Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4?

Each subject category of journals is divided into four quartiles: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. Q1 is occupied by the top 25% of journals in the list; Q2 is occupied by journals in the 25 to 50% group; Q3 is occupied by journals in the 50 to 75% group and Q4 is occupied by journals in the 75 to 100% group.

How does the citation count work on Scopus?

The resulting list of articles are all of those which cited something in the particular journal title you searched. Be aware: The citation count will only include the number of times the publication was cited by articles from the journals that Scopus covers.

How to find the name of an author in Scopus?

Click on an author’s name from a list of search results or from an individual title and abstract record. In Scopus you can analyze any set of search results to find useful information about journals, authors over time.

What can you do with Scopus search results?

In Scopus you can analyze any set of search results to find useful information about journals, authors over time. This option provides charts and graphs so you can quickly see the journal titles where an author published the journals which have published the most articles from your search results.

How to see how many times an article has been cited?

Select the title you want and then click the “limit to” button, if necessary. On the results page, click on the column header “Cited by” at the far right to sort the resulting articles by times cited. The article which has been cited the most times will appear at the top of the list of results.