Hello and welcome to the Scholarly Communications  video series from the Himmelfarb Library!  My name is Tom Harrod and I'm the Research  Support librarian at the Himmelfarb Library.  Today we will be briefly talking  about tracking citations with Scopus.  Our videos are publically available and licensed  under a CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license,   although some resources discussed in this series  are only available to faculty, staff and students   with access to Himmelfarb library resources. Let's get started. The first thing I want to discuss is why you  should care about tracking citations with Scopus.  First of all, doing so is a great  way to identify articles related to   an article of interest without  relying on keyword searches.   One of the limitations of traditional database  searching is that you need to identify all the   relevant keywords – if you overlook an important  synonym or related keyword, you might miss out   on important articles. Whereas tracking  citations allows you to identify pertinent   articles based on the connections that the authors  themselves have made through their citations.  Another reason for tracking citations is  to identify seminal articles in a field.   You can search for a topic in  Scopus and then sort by 'times   cited' to find the most highly cited articles. Thirdly, you can use citation information to   track the impact of your own publications Let's go to Scopus and take a look. First, I'll start at the Himmelfarb library   homepage – himmelfarb.gwu.edu.  Then click on Scopus here.  I'll run a quick practice  search .  Here I can sort by times cited  – so 'cited by '.  By doing this I'll identify the articles that have  been highly influential in this field of research,   based on the number of times they've been cited. Also, I can choose one that might be of particular   interest to me and I can look to see who has  cited that article to find more recent articles   that are based on that initial article of interest.

So this article was published in 2002 and   it's been cited 13,000 times. So if I click on  right here 'view all citing documents' it will show me the most recent articles,   up to the current date, articles that are  based on that initial article of interest.  So, you can see from these quick examples how  you can search for highly influential articles,   identify related articles to  an initial article of interest,   and how you can use Scopus to track  the impact of your own publications. Thank you for taking the time to listen  to Tracking Citations with Scopus.  If you enjoyed this webinar,   please visit our video library which  is at the URL shown on this slide:   https://guides.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/scholarlypub/video If you have any questions about the  material covered in this session or   have questions specific to your own research  don't hesitate to contact me at tph@gwu.edu.  On behalf of the Himmelfarb Library Scholarly  Communications team, thank you for listening!.