Cited-by Count

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Highlight the scientific value of your institutional output by integrating and displaying Scopus Cited-By counts into your website.

Scopus offers Cited-by Counts to be integrated and displayed directly on your institutional website. This service is also customizable and will automatically be updated when a new citation is attributed to an article. The source of these Cited By counts is Scopus, a multidisciplinary database of high-quality, peer-reviewed material covering nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1200 Open Access journals).

Five key benefits to you are:

  • Highlight the scientific value of your institutional output
  • Added scientific authority to your website’s content
  • Enable users to assess articles by citation counts
  • Provide a direct link to bibliographic information of citing articles
  • Cited-by counts are easy to implement and dynamically updated

Cited by counts also provides Preview Pages that allow those of your patrons who do not have a subscription to Scopus, to view the citation lists in Scopus with limited access to other functionalities. Integration Example:

Cited–by Counts for the journal articles on your Full Text platform will immediately highlight the scientific value of your articles.

4 easy steps to get the Scopus Cited-by Count:

  1. Go to the Scopus API website and look for “Scopus API: the CitedBy extension”
  2. Register your site to receive a Developer Key via Email.
  3. Use the JavaScript example from the API documentation to embed the Scopus Cited-By count in your site.
  4. Test and deploy your webpage.

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