Scopus is a citation index: the article records include lists of citing articles. This means that, if you find an article of interest, you can look at subsequent articles that have cited it. You can find important articles on a topic, and follow research paths.
Scopus is a multi-subject database, but does cover the Health Sciences - medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary science, and the health professions - as well as the 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.
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 Relevance. 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:
In the screen-shot below, the search was for
"speech therapy" OR "speech pathology" OR "speech language pathology"
[AND] autism
[in Title, Abstract, Keywords]
and the results have been sorted by Cited by (highest).
For individual help with using Scopus, please contact the Library or use the Ask a Librarian forum if there is one for your subject.
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