Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query

[Juan Gorraiz]

dear peter

at the moment there are some problems with scopus.
looking for articles from one author, scopus reports to have found a
certain number of articles, but when retrieving them, only a part of them
can be displayed!

juan

On Mo, 18.05.2009, 21:48, Peter Jacso wrote:
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> I spotted Scopus producing very different (mostly shrinking number of) hit
> counts for identical queries when repeated minutes later, i.e.
>      hawaii 115,295 then when repeated
>      hawaii 112,798
> I spotted this Sunday evening (after the MLA exhibit hall closed here). I
> e-mailed the Amsterdam office as it was Monday morning there, but I
> received no reply.
> I would not be much concerned about a temporary dementia but I have done
> quite a number  of searches the days before on Scopus for a research
> paper, and I wonder if anyone has spotted this problem already last week,
> making my earlier results invalid.
> Thanks
> peter jacso
>