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Creating Author Profiles

This guide covers how to create and update online author profiles to represent your scholarly activity.

Do I Already Have a Scopus Profile?

If any of your articles can be found in the Scopus database, you have a Scopus profile. These are automatically created by their system from the materials indexed in Scopus. This means you may have an account without having created one, and you cannot create one on your own.

You can search for yourself as an author in Scopus if you'd like to check for a profile. Your work is most likely to be findable in Scopus if you work in scientific fields or the social sciences.

Should I update my Scopus profile?

If you have an author profile in Scopus, it may not be correct or complete. You may even have multiple profiles under different names or name variants. While you cannot control whether or not Scopus creates an author profile for you, you can control the profile(s) created, correcting, merging, and updating what is there.

Having an updated Scopus profile:

  • Helps other researchers find you
  • Helps differentiate your work from others with similar names
  • Makes it easy for others to see all your work
  • Helps keep your profile metrics accurate

If you have a profile, consider updating it if any of the following are incorrect:

  • Name spelling
  • University affiliation
  • Articles attributed to you

What if I have more than one profile?

If you've published under multiple versions of your name (name change, initials, etc.), Scopus may have generated multiple author profiles for you over time. You can merge these by creating an account and taking control of your author profile.

Claiming and Correcting a Scopus Profile

If you have a profile that you want to correct and manage, create an account in Scopus. Remember that while you access Scopus through the Library with your UCCS account, you don't automatically have an account in Scopus itself.

Once you log into Scopus and locate your author profile, you should have an option to edit it.

A Scopus author profile page. The edit profile link is underneath the author name, univerity affiliation, and links to connect the profile to ORCiD or Mendeley.

You will have the ability to update your:

  • Preferred name
  • University affiliation
  • List of publications that are contained in Scopus

There are some limits to your update abilities. Remember that Scopus cannot find all publications. It can only locate articles in its curated list of journals. If you have published books or articles that aren't findable in Scopus, you won't be able to add them to this profile. You will also only be able to select universities named in the author credentials of your published works. If you haven't published since arriving at UCCS, you won't be able to affiliate yourself with our University in Scopus until you do.

Merge Profiles

If there are multiple author profiles that contain your research, use the "request to merge authors" feature from your author search results. You will be able to choose your preferred name and select which publications should be in the merged profile.

A list of three authors in the search result for C Dickens. The first two are checked for a merge. The request to merge authors link is above this list.

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