Spurious search results in SCOPUS database

[Kangan Jain]

Dear group members, 

I am a research scholar from DU. I am currently working on a paper on bibliometric analysis. I have noticed something strange, do let me know how to overcome this problem.

Firstly, everytime I run the same search query on Scopus, I get a different count of relevant documents, even within the same day. I have also faced that a search query which once yielded results was declared wrong by the database. 

Secondly, despite that, I agreed to settle on a particular outcome csv, and upon screening title and abstract, I found many entries do not relate with my search query. For this particular study, I have fetched 935 outcomes and upon screening the first 200, I found 50 do not match my search criteria. 

Is this screening result normal or am I committing an error somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Kangan Jain

[Ramani Swarna]

Hi Kangan,

Here we go :

Firstly, everytime I run the same search query on Scopus, I get a different count of relevant documents, even within the same day. I have also faced that a search query which once yielded results was declared wrong by the database. 

This is quite normal in the search. Keep conducting the steps for the search from basic to advanced and use different queries between "and", "or" , etc. Point them out and state them in your research also. This takes in most of the times. My suggestion to you is: use appropriate search words.

Secondly, despite that, I agreed to settle on a particular outcome csv, and upon screening title and abstract, I found many entries do not relate with my search query. For this particular study, I have fetched 935 outcomes and upon screening the first 200, I found 50 do not match my search criteria. 

This is possible.in case there are mismatches, pin point them and remove them. Go ahead with further search queries. There will be a number of steps involved in this. It is perfectly fine. You may refine further also.

Is this screening result normal or am I committing an error somewhere?

Yes, the screening steps are quite correct and normal ones. 

Thanks and regards,

Ramani Swarna

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[Kangan Jain]

In that case, I guess I am moving in the right direction. Thanks a lot mam. 

Kind Regards

Kangan Jain

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