Scopus is a multidisciplinary research database that provides access to research through its collection of citations to published research as well as information about those publications, such as what articles have cited them.
When you publish an article in a journal that is indexed (i.e. included) in the Scopus research database, an author profile is automatically created for you. This profile allows any Scopus user to search your name and identify your articles in Scopus. It also provides metrics about this body of your work, including citation metrics (based on publication activity of other articles included in Scopus).
This can be a useful source of information about your activities that it might be valuable for you to share. Note that this information is available to anyone with access to Scopus and it may be viewed by peer reviewers or potential employers, among others.
If you have published under different names, at different institutions, or in different disciplines, it is possible that you will have multiple profiles that all represent you. This results in an incomplete record of your work in Scopus an will negatively effect the metrics it generates about your productivity and citations to your works. Fortunately, consolidating and/or correcting your Scopus profile/s is typically straightforward.
1. Create a Scopus account or sign in if you already have one. A user account in a database like Scopus is completely separate from your Dalhousie NetID and password which you use to access the subscription to the database. Creating an account will allow you to make corrections to your profile among other things (like save past searches).
2. Conduct an Author Search for your name by clicking the "Authors" tab above the search bars and entering your name .
3. Look over the list of results. You can click on names to view the list of publications to help identify profiles that belong to you. If there are multiple profiles that belong to you, select them and choose "Request to merge authors," which will begin the process to merge the profiles.
4. To edit your profile, click on the name. If you have more than one profile, you can select the one with the most content. From your profile, you click the "edit profile" link which will allow you to choose your preferred name, affiliation and request other changes like the removal of documents incorrectly attributed to you. You can also request a search for missing documents to be added to your profile.
5. You can also connect your ORCID iD and Scopus profiles to reduce ambiguity in your public research identity by following the "Connect to ORCID" link.
Note: If you are new to Dalhousie and are trying to change your affiliation to Dal, you will have to wait until you publish a paper at Dalhousie before you can make it your home institution. This is a protective measure to ensure authors are actually affiliated with the institutions they are listing. Likewise, you can only select a preferred name from among those you have used as an author.