A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
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 We...
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| author | Aghaei Chadegani, A. Salehi, H. Yunus, M.M. Farhadi, H. Fooladi, M. Farhadi, M. Ale Ebrahim, N. |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-72402019-02-07T07:19:28Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/7240/ A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases Aghaei Chadegani, A. Salehi, H. Yunus, M.M. Farhadi, H. Fooladi, M. Farhadi, M. Ale Ebrahim, N. H Social Sciences (General) 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. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013-04-27 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.um.edu.my/7240/1/26960-90396-1-SM.pdf Aghaei Chadegani, A. and Salehi, H. and Yunus, M.M. and Farhadi, H. and Fooladi, M. and Farhadi, M. and Ale Ebrahim, N. (2013) A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Asian Social Science, 9 (5). pp. 18-26. ISSN 1911-2017, DOI https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n5p18 <https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n5p18>. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2257540 doi:10.5539/ass.v9n5p18 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Aghaei Chadegani, A. Salehi, H. Yunus, M.M. Farhadi, H. Fooladi, M. Farhadi, M. Ale Ebrahim, N. A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title | A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title_full | A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title_fullStr | A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title_full_unstemmed | A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title_short | A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases |
| title_sort | comparison between two main academic literature collections web of science and scopus databases |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
| url | http://eprints.um.edu.my/7240/1/26960-90396-1-SM.pdf |
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