Scopus contains both publications and citation data. It is a bibliographic database. This means there are links to full-text when available scrapers has useful search options such as searching for a particular authors publications for a subject search use the basic document search option. You will have the option to enter your search strategy into the box provided you can add as many separate search terms as required for adding a newline link terms together with boolean operators choose from the options and or and not take care to specify in which field you are searching for the keywords. You can put limits on your search limit by type of document or limit by date of publication. There are options to narrow your results by date or document type and more you will also be able to sort your results by relevance date of publication or by citation count if you want to find the most highly cited documents for your subject area. Scopus is a bibliographic database. The full-text will not always be available straight away and you will need to click on the find it link to access it from elsewhere the Scopus article records contain invaluable citation data. That can be mined. You can see all the references used in the article and link to their records if they are in. Scopus any document in scopus will have a complete list of all other documents which have cited the one you are looking at. This means that you can find an article and then see who else the cited this article in their way potentially leading you to discover new research material effectively you can search forward in time rather than just backwards by following references the coverage of. Scopus is quite comprehensive so you should be able to find records for almost all of the cited or citing documents you can see which keywords were used by the database for indexing these index words can produce strong results if added to your search related. Documents is an efficient way to discover documents in scopus with shared references to thoroughly investigate the citation data.

You need to use both focus and the other major citation database web of science although there is a lot of overlap. Each database has unique material and in certain disciplines. One will produce much better results than the other you.