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Documents include journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, articles in press and data papers. Follow the steps below to learn how to perform a basic document search:
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Note: {heart-attack} and {heart attack} return different results, as the first will search for results that contain a hyphen between heart and attack
Scopus also features non-Scopus references, called ‘secondary documents’, which are not indexed in our database for three possible reasons:
To view these non-Scopus references, click ‘Secondary documents’ above your search results.
Scopus provides the ability to search the list of cited references in articles, books, etc. If the reference which you are starting with is very relevant to your research, other related publications have probably cited references that are also relevant to your research. Cited reference searching is a useful extension to your standard keyword search.
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