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Scopus Overview
Scopus is an immense database of scientific, technical and medical information, including all of MEDLINE, with added coverage of the arts and humanities literature.
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Strengths
- Highly international in scope
- Updated daily
- Includes conference papers, patent records, scientific web pages, and some book series
- Offers proximity searching capability. For example, lung W/5 transplant allows you to search for a string of terms within five words of lung and transplant such as lung and antibiotics therapy in transplant.
- Provides sophisticated tools to analyze research activity including Citation Tracker and Journal Analyzer
- Includes altmetrics that show Mendeley readership statistics to demonstrate alternative types of academic influence
Limitations
- Does not provide a built-in thesaurus or controlled vocabulary so you may retreive an overwhelming number of results using keywords if only needing a limited number of articles on a topic.
