Verifying and Correcting Your Author Profile and Affiliationin Scopus Scopus provides several ways to correct information in your profile and associated publications. Web: Use their web-based author feedback wizard. Scopus: Use the links on author profile, co-author, and author documents pages to request corrections. C. Email: Contact them by email. A. B. The Scopus Author Identifier feature allows researchers to accurately distinguish between publications written by people with similar names. They assign a unique Author ID to each author, assembling affiliations and publications based on the content of indexed articles and author feedback. UTHM uses the Scopus database for the purpose of university ranking and performance monitoring. UTHM academicians use Scopus to alert them to new publications that cite their own, as well as observing their h-index. Authors can verify and correct their Scopus profiles to improve accuracy. Next, more details for each way is presented. A. Web: Use Scopus web-based author feedback wizard Merge Author Profiles and Affiliations in Scopus •When an author's works are added to the Scopus database, an author profile is created. The profile includes the author's name, a Scopus author identification number (Author ID), citation statistics, subject areas in which the author is publishing, and the author's publication and affiliation history. •Scopus attempts to ensure accuracy in author identification by creating a new profile if an author's name, subject areas, affiliation, or co-authors change, an approach that may result in multiple profiles. To simplify author identification, authors and institutions may request that multiple profiles be merged. Follow these steps to submit a request: 1) Go to: http://www.scopusfeedback.com/ 2) Conduct an Author Search. 3) Select the author entries to merge by clicking the box to the left of each name. (Click the 'Details' link, if available, for more information on an author, including the Author ID.) 4) Review document 5) Review profile 6) Submit request Scopus will merge the author profiles in six weeks or less. 3) Conduct an Author Search. for more information on an author. . if available.Step by step (with diagrams): 1) Go to: http://www. including the Author ID). 4) Select the author entries to merge by clicking the box to the left of each name. (Click the 'Details' link.com/ 2) Adding more name variant.scopusfeedback. 6) Review your documents.5) Select your preferred profile name. . 8) Fill in the required information and then submit feedback. .7) Review your profile. .com/search/form.url? zone=TopNavBar&origin=authorNamesList 2) At the Author search tab and enter your name in the Author field. Click to Show Profile Matches with One Document to detect outliers. 3) If the results contain multiple authors that represent your publications. and author documents pages to request corrections 1) Go to SCOPUS using this link: http://www. use the link to Request to merge authors. Try your last name with various combinations of your first and middle names or initials and affiliations to detect any duplicates in their system.scopus.B. co-author. Scopus: Use the links on author profile. Verify the associated documents. and if necessary click to Request author detail corrections. 5) Author document results pages have check boxes and a link to remove incorrectly attributed documents from author. note the Scopus Author ID for use in correspondence.4) Click your Author name in blue to view the Author Detail page. . Author-ID XXXXXXXXX Body of email: Please remove these articles from my profile: Ahmad. Ali. Author-ID XXXXXXXXX List the articles to be removed. *Please obtain the list in the following way: when viewing the article list in the author profile. but please do provide the name of the author involved.” Then click on the “Export” button.C. copy the resulting list. They do not need the names associated with each profile. When you have selected all the articles that should be removed. . 2) To remove articles from a profile Send an email to scopusauthorfeedback@elsevier. In the second box (Output) select “Specify fields to be exported. It does not matter how many there are. click on the “Export” button. and send it to them. check the box on the left hand side for each article that should be removed.com Subject line: Please merge these profiles Body of email: Please merge these profiles. each one followed by a comma and one space. Email: Contact Scopus by email. located above the boxes at the top of the list. they are all the same author. XXXXXXXX. XXXXXXXXXX. XXXXXXXXX Note: List the author profile numbers. Ali. Author name XXXXXXXXX. 1) To merge profiles Send an email to scopusauthorfeedback@elsevier. This will send you to the Output page.com Subject line: Please remove these articles from my profile: Ahmad. In the first box (Export Format) select “Text (ASCII format)”. but if you do know. Ali. *Scopus will correct the author affiliation in six weeks or less (the response will be emailed to you). This is because. source title. subject area. When you have selected all the articles that should be moved. This can lead the determination process to the previous affiliation of the author.com Subject line: Please move these articles into my profile Body of email: Please move these articles into my author profile: Ahmad. to determine which author names should be grouped together under a single identifier number. located above the boxes at the top of the list.” Then click on the “Export” button. Please associate this recent affiliation to my author-ID XXXXXXXXX. dates of publication. In the first box (Export Format) select “Text (ASCII format)”. In the second box (Output) select “Specify fields to be exported. rather than the current one.It is not necessary to tell them into which profile the articles should be moved. please ensure that the affiliation name is already/commonly being used in SCOPUS. citations.com Subject line: Please change the author’s affiliation into the recent one. Also note that. and send it to them. . especially after all your profiles have been merged into a single author ID (even though your latest publication indexed in Scopus database already using the current affiliation i. the Scopus Author Identifier uses an algorithm that matches author names based on their affiliation. *Please obtain the list in the following way: when viewing the article list in the author profile out of which the articles should be removed. address..e. Author-ID XXXXXXXXX List the articles to be moved. copy the resulting list. only details pages matched to more than one document in Scopus are shown in search results. please tell them. Note: This is applicable if your affiliation is not your current one. 4) To change author’s affiliation into the recent one Send an email to scopusauthorfeedback@elsevier. and co-authors. 3) To move articles already in Scopus into a profile Send an email to scopusauthorfeedback@elsevier. by default. Author-ID XXXXXXXXX My recent affiliation is Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. This will send you to the Output page. Body of email: Please change the author’s affiliation into the recent one. check the box on the left hand side for each article that should be moved. the requested affiliation to be associated with your current single author ID/profile). click on the “Output” button. Name XXXXXXXX. Also.
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