A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013) A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Asian Social Science, 9 (5). pp. 18-26. ISSN 1911-2025
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Abstract
Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | web of science, scopus, database, citations, provenance, coverage, searching, citation tracking, impact factor, indexing, h-index, researcher profile, researcher ID |
| Subjects: | A General Works / általános művek > AI Indexes (General) / indexek, mutatók H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > H Social Sciences (General) / társadalomtudomány általában T Technology / alkalmazott, műszaki tudományok > T2 Technology (General) / műszaki tudományok általában |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2013 07:55 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2013 07:56 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/5355 |
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