A Comparative Citation Analysis of Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar
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There are numerous articles comparing the big 3 cross-disciplinary databases, namely Web of Science,
Scopus and Google scholar. The article above is yet another one written on the same topic. It dutifully
covers old ground by explaining that ISI’s Web of Science is the oldest of the three, with the most depth
(it has the oldest archives) but the least breadth (because it indexes only the most prestigious journals).
Google scholar on the other end of the spectrum is the broadest of the three but mixes in results from
unofficial sources. Scopus lies somewhere in between. It dutifully explains reasons for why citation counts for an article tend to increase as you move from Web of Science to Scopus to Google Scholar. Bauer and Bakkalbasi (2005)’s often mentioned recommendation that one combine either Scopus or Web of Science
with Google Scholar is mentioned again.
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