Members’ Technology Showcase

Scopus AI is an intuitive and intelligent search tool informed by GenAI that draws exclusively on the trusted, curated content in Scopus.
Built in close collaboration with the academic community, it has been designed to respond to your natural language queries with focused and easy-to-understand insights on new terms, concepts and disciplines.

Elevating human ingenuity in research

We are at a crossroads. The research process is becoming increasingly automated and impersonal. We launched Scopus AI with a core belief: AI should elevate human ingenuity – not replace it.
Unlike traditional tools that focus on metrics, efficiency or cataloging of information, Scopus AI seeks to transform the role of researchers by accentuating their creativity, critical thinking and unique perspectives.
With one of our more recently launched features, Emerging themes, users can discover fresh and trending research opportunities. This new tool scans Scopus documents from the last two years and clusters them by topic, effectively pinpointing ‘white space’ that researchers can target for research, potential collaborations, or funding opportunities.
Hear from the developers on how Scopus AI came to life and continues to evolve

A smarter way to research

• Think more creatively – 88% of Scopus AI users say it enhances their creative thinking
• Save time – Users report a time saving of more than 50% with Scopus AI
• Refine your focus – 90% of users find Scopus AI helpful in formulating or refining research questions and objectives

See the bigger picture

What if you could spend less time on mundane tasks, and instead focus on exploring bold new concepts, uncovering elusive connections, and making groundbreaking discoveries? With Scopus AI, that’s no longer a dream.

How Scopus AI works

1. Enter your natural-language query to begin. An easy-to-follow Summary of the results will be generated, along with Scopus references to provide additional transparency and trust. Dig deeper with Expanded summaries.
2. View a graphical representation of the keywords with the Concept map, which visualizes interdisciplinary connections and insights, enabling you to surface and investigate links between topic areas that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. 
3. Pinpoint “white space” for publications, collaborations, and funding opportunities with Emerging themes, a groundbreaking new feature that identifies and categorizes established, rising, and novel themes based on your query.






4. Rapidly pinpoint the most influential Foundational documents on your topic.
5. Find leading Topic experts in the field, with explanations of their expertise relevant to your query.
6. Go deeper into related queries to discover new perspectives.

The Scopus AI difference

Developed responsibly

Scopus AI is developed in line with Elsevier's Five Responsible AI Principles. For example:

• Robust data privacy: All user inputs are treated in line with our Privacy Policy. We also adhere to European GDPR.
• LLM-specific data privacy: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, hosted on Microsoft Azure, is among the large language models (LLMs) we use. We have an agreement that no user queries will be stored or used to train or improve ChatGPT.
• Content and data governance: Scopus content selection is subject to rigorous checks by an independent board of experts.

Technology with clear scope and instructions

The technology that underpins Scopus AI is maintained for:

• Transparency: Only trusted Scopus content is used in Scopus AI responses and any claims or assumptions are backed up by references. Scopus AI also indicates how confident it is that its response matches your query. And if it can’t find relevant results, it tells you.
• Reliability: Scopus AI features our patent-pending RAG Fusion technology and our Copilot tool. Together, these improve the quality of both the search and responses. The LLM is also guided by strict prompt engineering guardrails.

Collaborating with the community to develop & enhance Scopus AI

Scopus AI was developed in response to a need identified by 60% of Scopus users: to learn about new topics more effectively.
Thousands of researchers, librarians, and academic leaders helped shape the tool. Their feedback also inspired the patent-pending RAG Fusion technology.
We continue to engage with the research community; for example, Scopus subscribers are selected at random to test the tool. The development team closely tracks this feedback and moves quickly in response, often within hours.

In our customers' words

“AI has so much potential - but only when it’s developed and used responsibly. To maintain our school’s reputation for excellence and innovation,
we need to leverage the latest technology. At the same time, it’s essential we guide our users towards tools and sources we know they can trust.
Scopus AI ensures we can deliver on both those aims.”
— Susanne Kirchmair, Library Services team at MCI | The Entrepreneurial School

“The Scopus AI interface is intuitive and easy to use, it allows the researcher to obtain an overview of a problem, as well as identify
authors and approaches, in a more agile search session than conventional search. It is a valuable tool for literature reviews, construction
of theoretical frameworks and verification of relationships between variables, among other applications that are actually impossible to delimit.”
— Elisenda Aguilera, researcher at Pompeu Fabra University

“Something that gives me a lot of confidence in [Scopus AI] is that the results are referenced, and it’s easy to check the references ...
With Scopus AI, you can use more informal language when searching, and you get pretty much the same results as you do with the technical terms.
I think that’s one of the great benefits of using the tool.”
— Bruno Augusto, PhD student in environmental engineering at the University of Aveiro

“The very fact that Scopus AI is available to researchers improves library services because we can offer
another tool to strengthen our researchers … it is our main goal.”

— Dr. Wojciech Woźniak, Library Director at Life Science University of Warsaw