Books can provide a more thorough analysis of particular subjects lead you to subject area experts and foster interdisciplinary collaboration across all subject areas using a broad topic search for our example like economic behavior. Here is one way scopus can help you and cover research trends key influencers and potential collaborators. Let's say you are looking for broad-based content and subject area experts on economic behavior. You run a search which results in over 62,000 documents an intimidating number. To look through try limiting your results to book titles books tend to provide a broader and more thorough view of a subject area and are a good place to start to do this filter by book and select limit to sort by cited by to quickly find the most impactful books. Then click on show abstract. If you want to learn more about the book to help determine if it's of interest to you once you find the right book click on the cited by number here. This will list all nine hundred and twenty plus citations and includes all available content types but rather than manually reading through all these citations use the analyze search results tool to help lead you to key insights and to uncover trends there are seven parameters you can analyze by for example. If you want to find out whose work this book or book author is influencing and what work they are publishing. Click the author tab. This helps answer questions like who is working in the space and are they someone. I want to track and to follow in other words. Analyze results provides a high-level detail of your search results to help you spot trends easier but to should you seek to collaborate with or ask as a reviewer or editor. Do you know who the key influencers and leaders are in this area to help you identify the most highly cited and impactful content in your area of interest. Click back to your search results and filter on cited by scroll through the list and look for documents both match your area of interest and are well sited once identified click the author names to see a summary of their work and citation history when you have found a potential author use the author evaluator tool for a more detailed view into his or her output such as number of documents h-index citations and their co-authors if you wanted to take an even deeper look into their citations and possibly rate of self citations you can click on.

View citation overview this allows you to see all of the indexed work and the citation history for each of their documents. You can also view how their citation record compares when self citations are excluded. Each of these tools can help you to better understand what is happening in a certain area and understand the who what when where and how of a particular field we started from books but the same steps can apply to any content type and any field no matter how broad or specialized you.