Faculty Research Guide: Connect to your Scholarly Community

Researcher Discovery allows you to conduct a keyword search to quickly find researchers contributing to a specific field. The keywords are matched against title, abstract, and journal name of articles by the 16m+ authors in the Scopus database.

Using Researcher Discovery, you can easily and quickly find researchers and their current focus, total experience and time in research, details about their institution, recent published documents, topics, and contact information. This enables you to identify relevant author profiles to make connections, identify potential collaborators, pinpoint authors to approach for mentorship or advice, and to target individuals for network building.

1. From the Scopus homepage, select the Discovery Researcher tab.
2. Enter your search terms in the Enter keywords field and select Search.
   Search terms can be anything relating to a research area, topic, or interest.
3. Refine your results using the Refine by menu. Refine by:
   • Matching documents from a specific span of years
   • Country
   • Organization
4. Select the Sort by drop-down menu to choose your desired sort criteria.
5. Select Preview profile for the desired author to open the Author profile preview panel.
   Note: Select the Number of matching documents to open the document search results page.