Monday 1 February 2016

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

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

By Nader Ale Ebrahim, Maryam Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Hadi Farhadi, Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Salehi and Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani

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
Topics:
LCC:Social
sciences (General),
LCC:H1-99,
LCC:Social Sciences,
LCC:H,
DOAJ:Social Sciences
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Year: 2013
DOI identifier:
OAI identifier:
oai:doaj.org/article:a78e4b69a4e4461c962baa73fb63abfc
Journal:



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