A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databasesстатья из журнала
Аннотация: 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.
Год издания: 2013
Авторы: Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Maryam Farhadi, Nader Ale Ebrahim
Издательство: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Источник: Asian Social Science
Ключевые слова: scientometrics and bibliometrics research, Web visibility and informetrics, Academic Publishing and Open Access
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arXiv (Cornell University) (PDF)
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (PDF)
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (PDF)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) (HTML)
DataCite API (HTML)
Asian Social Science (HTML)
hal.science (PDF)
hal.science (HTML)
arXiv (Cornell University) (PDF)
arXiv (Cornell University) (HTML)
The University of Malaya Research Repository (University of Malaya) (HTML)
E-LIS Repository (University of Naples Federico II) (HTML)
Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (HTML)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (PDF)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (HTML)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (PDF)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (HTML)
Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) (HTML)
DataCite API (HTML)
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