Two ways to search
Besides publications, Keenious searches for Authors, Venues (journals, conferences, repositories and other sources) and Institutions. You pick one in the Search for menu inside the search box.
By topic: enter a research question or concept, such as perovskite solar cells, to find the people, venues and institutions most active on it.
By name: enter an author's name, a journal title or a university's name to find that record. A name that is shared by many records, or an author with very few publications and citations, is ranked by topic like any other search.
When you switch between Publications, Authors, Venues and Institutions, your search text stays. Publication filters that the new tab also offers carry over, while filters on the authors, venues or institutions themselves are cleared. Sort, Scope and the number of results return to their defaults.
How results are ranked
A topic search ranks authors, venues and institutions by the publications that match it. Keenious finds the top 10,000 publications for your search (see How Search Works in Keenious) and credits each one to its authors, its venue and the institutions listed on it.
Publications matching your search credit and rank the authors, venues and institutions behind them.
The ranking uses these signals, listed in no particular order:
Matching publications: how many there are and how closely they match your search.
Standing of those publications: their citations, their field-weighted citation impact (FWCI, citations compared with similar papers of the same field and year) and the Norwegian Scientific Index level of their venue.
Focus on the topic: the share of the author's, venue's or institution's whole output that matches, so a specialist can rank beside a much larger generalist.
Overall closeness: how close the record's work as a whole is to your search.
Name match: a record whose name matches your search directly.
What a result card shows
On a search with text, the first line of a card shows its matches: how many of the top 10,000 publications for your search are credited to it, at your Scope level. The second line shows the record's own totals across the Keenious index: publications, citations and h-index, with the type first on venue cards.
Matches are counted within the search. An author with 250 publications might show 14 matches, and papers of theirs on the topic that rank outside the top 10,000, or below the Scope level, are not included.
Scope, sort and filters
Scope decides which matching publications count. A stricter level gives a shorter list of those with the most matching work, in the same order. See Controlling Search Scope and Relevance Floors.
Sort offers three orders:
Best match: the ranking described above, and the default for a search with text.
Most cited: the record's total citations.
Most publications: the record's total publications.
Most cited and Most publications reorder the results the search kept, so the list stays on your topic. Without search text, results are listed by Most cited.
Filters come in two sections on each tab:
Section | What it narrows | Filters |
Author, Venue or Institution | The records themselves | Authors: citations, h-index, publications, institution (one of the author's five main affiliations) and venue. |
Author's, Venue's or Institution's publications | The publications that count as matches | Publication date, open access, peer-reviewed venue, FWCI, and related authors, venues or institutions, among others. |
To leave out repositories such as arXiv, set the venue Type filter to Journal.
Profiles and related searches
Selecting a card opens its profile beside the results. It shows publications, citations and h-index, the venues or institutions the record is most connected to, and its research areas. Authors also show their i10-index and ORCID, and venues their Norwegian Scientific Index level. Venue badges read Leading venue (Norwegian Scientific Index level 2), Peer-reviewed (level 1 or 2), Open Access and In DOAJ.
The profile lists up to 300 of the record's publications, ordered by how well each matches your search, without your search's filters. A profile opened from Chat has no search behind it, so its list is ordered by Most cited.
Under Explore this author, Explore this venue or Explore this institution, buttons start a new search for related records, filtered to this one and without your search text:
Author: their publications, the venues they publish in, and the institutions they have been affiliated with.
Venue: its publications, and the authors and institutions that publish in it.
Institution: its publications, its affiliated authors, and the venues that publish its work.
The map and Chat
The search map works on these tabs too. Each author, venue or institution is placed by the meaning of its publications that match your search, so those working on similar parts of the topic sit close together. Point size shows total citations and colour shows the research area.
You can also ask Chat for authors, venues or institutions, for example "Which institutions work on perovskite degradation?". Selecting a name in the answer opens its profile.
Export and bookmarks are available for publications only.
Typical uses
Finding reviewers or collaborators: search Authors for your topic with Scope set to Focused, then sort by Most cited or set a minimum h-index.
Choosing a journal: search Venues with key terms from your manuscript, set Type to Journal, and narrow by Norwegian Scientific Index level if that matters to you.
Institutions active in a field: search Institutions for the field, then open a profile to see its main venues and research areas.
Frequently asked questions
Why are citation counts and h-indexes lower than in Google Scholar or Scopus?
They count only citations from other publications in the Keenious curated index. Citations from sources outside it are not included.
Why does an author I know works in a field not appear?
Search reads titles and abstracts, so papers that do not mention the topic there do not match, and papers outside the top 10,000 for your search are not counted. Try Exploratory or All, or search for the author by name.
Where do author profiles come from?
From OpenAlex, which decides which publications belong to the same author. Keenious uses these groupings as they are.