What is API Scopus?
Scopus APIs are a great way to showcase your research, your institution’s work and connect others with Scopus content and data. Additionally, anyone can obtain an API key and use our APIs free of charge, provided that our policies for using APIs and the data are honored.
How do I get my Scopus API key?
Steps to get API key Go to https://dev.elsevier.com/user/signin. Login or create a free account. Click “Create API Key”. Put in a label, such as rscopus key .
How do I get my Elsevier API key?
Steps to get API key You need to provide a website URL and a label, but the website can be your personal website, and agree to the terms of service. Go to https://dev.elsevier.com/user/login. Login or create a free account. Click “Create API Key”.
What is pybliometrics?
pybliometrics is an easy to use Python library to pull, cache and extract data from the Scopus database.
How do I access Scopus database?
You just go to www.scopus.com and come to a page with buttons including Dashboard Author search Sources. Then go to Subject Area Enter Subject Area. And here in entering subject area enter the subject area.
How do I access Scopus database for free?
If you need to search for citations and an author’s history of publication, you can use Elsevier Scopus “preview” or free edition: http://www.scopus.com You can either create a free user login, or simply search following the “author search” link at the top of the screen.
How do I export data from Scopus?
Go to the downloaded Excel documment from Scopus and:
- Highlight the column that contains your list (usually A)
- Go to Data > Text to Columns.
- Choose Delimited. Click Next.
- Choose Other and insert ” and Click Next.
- Choose General,
- Leave Destination as is, or choose another column. Click Finish.
What is the default quota for the abstract retrieval API?
By default, it is set to 100 requests per 100 seconds per user and can be adjusted to a maximum value of 1,000.
How do I get the results of a Scopus search?
I recommend developing the search string in the Scopus web interface and then using that string in the API to obtain the results. The function has eight arguments: string, content, myStart, retCount, retMax, mySort, cursor, and outfile. string: the advanced search string you want to use.
Can I use the Scopus API without a Scopus subscription?
Full Scopus APIs access is only granted to customers with Scopus subscription. If do not have a Scopus subscription you can still use the APIs, however, you will have limited access to a basic metadata for most citation records, as well as to basic search functionality.
What is the default order of Scopus search results?
Currently defaults to descending order by cover date, but could also be set to descending order by times cited count (“-citedby-count”) or relevance (“-relevancy”). See the Scopus Search API wadl for more options. cursor: a parameter used to iterate through a set of search results beyond 5,000.
How do I run an advanced search through the API?
This function allows you to run an advanced search through the API and download all of the search results. I recommend developing the search string in the Scopus web interface and then using that string in the API to obtain the results. The function has eight arguments: string, content, myStart, retCount, retMax, mySort, cursor, and outfile.