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Asian Social Science 9, 5 (2013) 18-26

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

Aghaei Chadegani Arezoo ( ) 1, Hadi Salehi 2, Melor Md Yunus 3, Hadi Farhadi 4, Masood Fooladi 5, Maryam Farhadi 1, Nader Ale Ebrahim 6

(27/04/2013)

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.

1 :	Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh (IAU, Mobarakeh)
	Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Isfahan, Iran
2 :	Islamic Azad University, Najafabad (IAU, Najafabad)
	Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran
3 :	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
	Faculty Of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (ukm), Malaysia
4 :	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
	School of Psychology and Human Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
5 :	Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh (IAU, Mobarakeh)
	Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch
6 :	University of Malaya (UM)
	Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya

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Informatique/Base de données Sciences de l'environnement Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Education

Mots Clés : web of science – scopus – database – citations – provenance – coverage – searching – citation tracking – impact factor – indexing – h-index – researcher profile – researcher ID

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