Volume 9, Issue 5, 27 April 2013, Pages 18-26
A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of science and scopus databases (Article)
a
Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Isfahan, Iran
b
Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran
c
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
Department of Accounting, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Isfahan, Iran
b
Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran
c
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
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.
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.
Author keywords
Citation tracking; Citations; Coverage;
Database; H-index; Impact factor; Indexing; Provenance; Researcher ID;
Researcher profile; Scopus; Searching; Web of science
Database; H-index; Impact factor; Indexing; Provenance; Researcher ID;
Researcher profile; Scopus; Searching; Web of science
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