Scopus is a citation index. This means that, if you find an article of interest, you can look at subsequent articles that have cited it. 

It does not contain the full-text of articles, so you will need to use the  links to locate full-text.

Scopus is a multi-subject database, covering health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences & humanities. 

CSU Library also subscribes to the Web of Science Core Collection, which is an alternative citation index.

• The default is to Document Search, which is similar to Advanced Search in other databases. You can add further search lines.
• The default is to search in Title, Abstract, and Keywords. This is useful, but can be changed.
• The default is to a keyword search so if you want to search for a phrase, enclose it in double quotation marks.
• In Scopus, there are some limiters that can be used as part of a search, but many more that can be applied to a set of results. 
• Scopus does not contain links to the full-text of articles. For each result, you will need to use the  link to search for the full article in other CSU Library databases.

When you get a results list in Scopus, one of the columns that displays is the Cited by. This shows the number of articles (indexed in Scopus) that have cited the article. Clicking on the number will display brief records of those citing articles.

The results list will, by default, be sorted by Date (Newest). You can use the drop-down menu to change the sort order to Cited by (highest) or Cited by (lowest).

You can use this feature of Scopus to:

• follow a research path forwards and find related articles
• find seminal articles on a topic.