To create an alert, you first need to set up an account by going to Scopus and clicking on Create account.
To create a subject search alert:
- Sign in to your Scopus account
- Run a search on the topic of your choice from the search page
- Click on Set search alert to the left of the search results
- Set the frequency with which you'd like to get your alerts
To create a document citation alert:
- Sign in to your Scopus account
- Search for the title of the article you want to create an alert for
- Click on the article title
- Click on Cited by
- Click on Set citation alert
- Set the frequency with which you'd like to get your alerts
To create an author alert:
- Sign in to your Scopus account
- From the Author tab, search for the author you want to set an alert on
- Click the name of the author
- Click on Set alert
- Set the type of alert you want and the frequency with which you'd like to get your alerts
