Scopus AI

Use Scopus AI to explore research indexed in Scopus through natural-language questions. It can help you orient yourself in a topic, inspect referenced summaries, and discover themes and foundational papers. Use it alongside the Scopus database search guide, not in place of a documented search strategy.

Topic & Scope worksheet Scopus Database Search All guides

01 · Access and sign in

Open Scopus AI

Open Scopus through the UTM Library database portal or your institution’s library portal.
Sign in using the institutional access/SSO route if prompted. An Elsevier account may be needed for personalized functions.
Look for the Scopus AI tab or entry in the Scopus interface. Availability depends on your institution’s subscription and product access.
If Scopus AI is not available, use the standard Scopus database search guide and continue with the same topic concepts.

Open Scopus ↗Scopus with AI overview ↗Institutional/SSO access help ↗

02 · Use it for SLR

Features that support topic exploration

Natural-language query

Ask an exploratory research question in everyday language rather than starting with Boolean syntax.

Referenced summaries

Review topic and expanded summaries with links to the Scopus records used to generate them.

Concept map and follow-ups

Explore related concepts visually and ask focused follow-up questions to narrow or extend your understanding.

Foundational documents and themes

Inspect papers and themes suggested by the service as possible leads for further checking.

Use as an exploration aid. Scopus AI works from the Scopus corpus and may not include every source relevant to your topic. Its summary is not your formal search, evidence synthesis, or proof of a research gap.

03 · Hands-on exercise

Explore one focused question

Start with a focused version of your review topic and write one question about a phenomenon, method, context or outcome.
Enter the question in Scopus AI. Read the topic summary and inspect its cited records.
Open at least two cited records in Scopus. Verify exact title, authors, year, DOI and abstract.
Open the concept map or a follow-up question. Note one useful term, theme or unresolved question.
Try one follow-up that narrows the context or method. Check whether the resulting sources are actually relevant.
Return to the Scopus database guide to build and log a reproducible Boolean search separately.

Copy-ready exploratory question

Explore research in Scopus about [PASTE YOUR FOCUSED TOPIC]. What recurring themes, approaches, contexts and outcome measures appear in this literature? Identify a small set of relevant Scopus records and explain why each may be worth reading. Provide links to the source records. Distinguish the summary from established evidence. I will verify each record and abstract, and I will conduct a separate documented database search.

Verification check: click through to the cited Scopus records and confirm the paper and abstract support the AI summary. Record useful terms as candidate keywords, not as a confirmed research gap.

04 · Record and carry forward

What should go into Topic & Scope?

Record one concise theme or terminology insight and one verified seed paper, including its exact title and DOI or stable link. Identify Scopus AI as the source of the exploratory insight.

✓ At least two AI-cited Scopus records were checked at source.

✓ One seed paper has a verified title and DOI or stable link.

✓ AI suggestions are labelled as exploratory leads.

✓ A separate Boolean search will be recorded in the Scopus Search Log.

Record verified output in Topic & Scope →Build a Scopus database search Open Stage 1 Search Log

Elsevier documents Scopus AI summaries, cited records, concept maps, follow-up questions, foundational documents and emerging themes. Availability can vary by institutional access. See the official overview.