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.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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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