RSS feeds & Scopus

Last week, two blog entries discussed getting started with RSS by setting up an RSS feed reader and adding favorite e-journals so you will notified as soon as new articles are published. In addition to adding regularly updated journal and news websites to your RSS feed reader, you can track research articles in Scopus.

Using Scopus and RSS together allows you to track Scopus searches as well as citations to individual articles. For example, GWUMC faculty member Dr. Diane Shrier recently wrote an article with Drs. Alyssa Zucker, Andrea Mercurio, Laura Landry, Michael Rich and Lydia Shrier which appeared in the Journal of Women's Health and which was entitled "Generation to generation: Discrimination and harassment experiences of physician mothers and their physician daughters". To track research on this topic, I want to set up an RSS feed for a general search on this topic and an RSS feed to locate any future articles which cite this specific article.

To set up an RSS feed to identify articles on this general topic:

1. I accessed Scopus and then ran a search for articles that mention female physicians and discrimination or harassement.
2. On the search results page, I clicked on the RSS icon/link near the top of the screen near the search summary.
3. In the new window, I have the opportunity to edit the name of this RSS feed and then click on Continue.
4. On the next screen, I can click on the RSS feed reader which I use, or copy/paste the URL of my new RSS feed into my RSS feed reader.

I'd also like to know when any new articles are published which cite Dr. Shrier et al.'s article as they may be relevant to my research interests. These articles may also come up in my first RSS feed, or if they focus on a finer point in the article they may not show up on that search but I would still like to know about them. To set up this RSS feed:

1. Locate the record for Dr. Shrier et al.'s article on Scopus by searching by article title or author(s).
2. Click on the link for 'Abstract + Refs'.
3. On the right-side of the screen is a box labelled 'Cited By since 1996'. Click the RSS link/icon in this box.
4. In the new window, I have the opportunity to edit the name of this RSS feed and then click on 'Continue.'
5. On the next screen, I can click on the RSS feed reader which I use, or copy/paste the URL of my new RSS feed into my RSS feed reader.