As we may search : Comparison of major features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citation-based and citation-enhanced databases

By P. Jacsó. 2005

517 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar (2008, background): “Google Scholar is not always able to correctly identify the publication year of the item, and citations are not always attributed to the correct publication [JACSO, 2006, 2005A].”
A review of theory and practice in scientometrics (2015, background): “There have also been many comparisons of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar across a range of disciplines (Adriaanse & Rensleigh, 2013; Amara & Landry, 2012; Franceschet, 2010; García-Pérez, 2010; Harzing & van der Wal, 2008; Jacso, 2005; Meho & Rogers, 2008; Meho & Yang, 2007).”
A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university (2009, methodology): “Several studies can be found in the literature making detailed descriptions of the main features of Scopus [JACSÓ, 2005; FIGERMAN, 2005; LAGUARDIA, 2005] and comparing the databases WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar with the aim of assessing the number of citations obtained by a particular set of…”
Web of Science and Scopus: a journal title overlap study (2008, background): “…search interface, coverage, subject scope, consistency in indexing, use of thesauri, citation search functionality, etc. (Deis and Goodman, 2005; Jacsó, 2005; Myhill, 2005; Dess, 2006; Fingerman, 2005; Jacsó, 20062006b; Bosman et al., 2006; Jacsó, 2007; Golderman and Connolly, 2007; Goodman…”
Patient Engagement as an Emerging Challenge for Healthcare Services: Mapping the Literature (2012, methodology): “In this case, we chose to analyze only the research articles indexed in the Scopus database as it provides the wider amount of publications (in comparison to the other academic databases)—see Table 1—and allows to cover all different disciplines involved in the health research, whereas Medline and P”
Comparing Bibliometric Statistics Obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus (2009, methodology): “(2008), Gavel and Iselid (2008), Jacsó (2005), Neuhaus and Daniel (2008) and Norris and Oppenheim (2007) compared the general characteristics and coverage of the databases; other studies compared the bibliometric rankings obtained.”
A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (2013, unknown): “Citation overview of Scopus is displayed by option of excluding self-citation with h-index in a graph format (jacso 2005).”
The New Era of Virtual Reality Locomotion: A Systematic Literature Review of Techniques and a Proposed Typology (2017, background): “, Google Scholar, Web of Science) for the main search process due to its wider coverage of related journals, its flexible result-filtering capabilities and the consistent accuracy of its results [29,30].”
Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar (2007, methodology): “For more details on Scopus, see Goodman and Deis (2005) and Jacsó (2005a).”