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Creating Author Profiles

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

Why seize control of your Scopus Author 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

Scopus Profiles Are Created Automatically

Scopus creates profiles automatically from the materials indexed in Scopus. You may have an account without having created one, and you cannot create one if it doesn’t exist.

Not everyone will have an author profile in Scopus. Scopus creates author profiles based on materials indexed in Scopus. Because Scopus doesn’t cover all subjects, researchers whose work falls outside of Scopus’s scope may not have a profile in the system.

How to correct your author profile in Scopus

1. Look it up. Do you have an author profile in Scopus?

 2. Choose the Authors option for the search box and look for yourself.

The Scopus Author Search feature is shown. An orange arrow points to the tab above the search box where the user can select author as their search field.

3. If you have a profile, is it correct?

  • Is your name spelled correctly and listed as you want it to appear to other researchers?
  • Is your affiliation correct?
  • Do you have multiple profiles, possibly using different names, name variations, or affiliations?
  • Is your document list complete?

4. If your profile needs to be corrected, updated, or merged with your other profiles, create a Scopus account.

  • On the top right side of the page, select Create Account.
  • You can use any email/password combination for this account, it does not have to be your UCCS account.

A picture of the top right corner of the Scopus interface with an orange arrow pointing to the Create Account button.

5. Once you’re signed into Scopus, search again for your author profile (or at least one of them).

  • Visit the profile and click on the Edit Profile button

Screenshot of an author profile, with the author name, affiliation, Scopus ID, and then underneath the Edit Profile link with an orange arrow pointing to it.

6. Edit your profile

  • Choose your preferred name
  • Search for any missing documents*
  • Select your documents and confirm author.
  • Select “Review Affiliation” and choose your most recent affiliation**
  • Select “Confirm and Submit”

7. If you have multiple profiles, merge them.

  • Select the multiple profiles from the author search results list and click “Request to Merge Authors”

A list of author profiles for C Dickens is shown. Two of the profiles have been selected and an orange arrow points to the Request to Merge Authors option on the menu bar above.

    • Choose your preferred name for the merged profile
    • Review the list of documents and make sure they’re all yours. Any falsely attributed to you, simply leave unchecked so they don’t appear on your profile.
    • Search for missing documents*
    • Click on the Review Affiliation Button
    • Choose your affiliation from the dropdown list**

8. Check up on your profile regularly to make any needed corrections.

 

* Scopus does not index all journals, all books, or all proceedings. You may not be able to find all of your work in Scopus and add it to your profile and that’s perfectly normal.

** Because the affiliation options you have are based on your publications, if you haven’t published an article while affiliated with UCCS, you may not be able to select that yet.

Scopus PDF on Correcting Your Author Profile