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Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Informetrics, 12(4), 1160-1177, 2018, 2018
Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent or systematic evidence about the differences between them. In response, this paper investigates 2,448,055 citations to 2,299 English-language highly-cited documents from ...
Alberto Martín-Martín   +3 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

The Journal Coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesScientometrics 2021, 2020
Traditionally, Web of Science and Scopus have been the two most widely used databases for bibliometric analyses. However, during the last few years some new scholarly databases, such as Dimensions, have come up. Several previous studies have compared different databases, either through a direct comparison of article coverage or by comparing the ...
V. Singh   +4 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations' COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations [PDF]

open access: yes2021. Scientometrics, 126(1), 871-906, 2020
New sources of citation data have recently become available, such as Microsoft Academic, Dimensions, and the OpenCitations Index of CrossRef open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI). Although these have been compared to the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, or Google Scholar, there is no systematic evidence of their differences across subject categories.
Alberto Mart'in-Mart'in   +3 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

A tale of two databases: The use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Web of Science and Scopus are two world-leading and competing citation databases. By using the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, this paper conducts a comparative, dynamic, and empirical study focusing on the use of Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus in academic papers published during 2004 and 2018.
Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu
arxiv   +2 more sources

Analysis of publications by authors of Ukrainian institutes in Scopus-delisted titles [PDF]

open access: yesLearned Publishing, 2022, 35(4), 499-515, 2022
In Ukraine, Scopus data are used to evaluate academics. Existing shortcomings in the Ukrainian evaluation system allow them to publish in titles that have been delisted from Scopus, and continue to use those papers as credible research output for evaluation.
Serhii Nazarovets
arxiv   +3 more sources

Dimensions: A Competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science? [PDF]

open access: yesThelwall, M. (2018). Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science? Journal of Informetrics, 12(2), 430-435. 10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.006, 2018
Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Science in January 2018. Dimensions includes journal articles and citation counts, making it a potential new source of impact data. This article explores the value of Dimensions from an impact assessment perspective with an examination of Food Science research 2008-2018 and a random ...
arxiv   +7 more sources

Scopus' SNIP Indicator

open access: green, 2010
Rejoinder to Moed [arXiv:1005.4906]: Our main objection is against developing new indicators which, like some of the older ones (for example, the "crown indicator" of CWTS), do not allow for indicating error because they do not provide a statistics, but are based, in our opinion, on a violation of the order of operations.
Loet Leydesdorff, Tobias Opthof
openalex   +4 more sources

Reference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly
Jack H. Culbert   +6 more
arxiv   +2 more sources

Scopus Search Analyzer [PDF]

open access: yesJ Can Health Libr Assoc
Scopus’ search analyzer provides a quick and efficient way to view journal, author, and affiliation metrics. Analyzing thousands of results in an instant, the search analyzer creates graphical representations that help users visualize the bibliometrics of their search.
europepmc   +3 more sources

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