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Scopus AI Quick Guide

Expanded Summary

The Expanded Summary feature provides a more detailed overview of your topic using the same articles used to generate the initial summary.

Foundational Documents

Scopus AI will identify the 2-3 most-cited papers among the reference articles as foundational documents. While these seminal works tend to be older, they can be useful due to their sizable lists of newer articles that have cited them on their individual article record pages. 

Concept Map

The Concept Map displays connections between different aspects of your topic and related concepts. You can select multiple concepts to generate a linked concept path summary with supporting citations.

Topic Experts

Scopus AI identifies leading experts in your research area and provides brief summaries of their expertise. Links to their detailed Scopus profiles let you explore their published studies and discover additional relevant research. 

Emerging Themes

The Emerging Themes feature identifies consistent, rising, and novel themes in the literature. Each theme includes a summary, supporting references, and clickable research hypotheses that generate new Scopus AI summaries. This feature is particularly useful for identifying literature gaps and research opportunities.

"Go Deeper"

The "Go Deeper" section feature offers relevant queries that you can potentially use to explore different aspects of your topic. Clicking any of the suggested prompts generates a complete new analysis with summary, foundational documents, and the other features already mentioned in this guide.

Deep Research

 After typing in a query, you can choose to turn on Scopus AI's Deep Research feature. Deep Research will generate a research report that includes:

  • A more-in depth summary of your topic that will draw upon a larger number of relevant studies from the Scopus database
  • Research gaps and limitations found in major relevant studies 
  • Suggestion for how to carry our further research 

While a basic Scopus AI summary and related features will only take a few seconds to generate, a Deep Research report will take several minutes to generate. 

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