Scopus is a multidisciplinary database and so useful for most researchers. this guide will show you how to use it to find the information you are looking for.
Entering singular nouns will also search for plural nouns and possessives (with some exceptions)
Entering either British or American spellings (tumor or tumour) will search for both variations
Double quotes “ “ will search for fuzzy phrases. It will search for both singular and plurals (with some exceptions) and wildcards can be used. “heart-attack” will search for heart-attack, heart attack, heart attacks, and so on
Curly brackets { } will search for a specific phrase. It limits the search to only the specified character string, and symbols can be used. {heart attack} will only search for heart attack but not heart attacks or heart-attack.
* replaces any number of letters e.g. comput* will find computer, computes, computational etc., while *oxide will find hydroxide, monoxide, dioxide etc.
? replaces only one character e.g. wom?n will find women and woman / “baby t??th” will search for “baby tooth” and “baby teeth”
/n Restricts the number of words between the two words, the word order is not set e.g. pollution w/3 cars finds examples such as pollution in 7 passenger cars, pollution caused by cars, car pollution etc.
PRE/n Restricts to n words between the two words in that word order e.g. pollution pre/3 cars finds pollution in 7 passenger cars, pollution caused by cars but not car pollution.
